Insurance fraud is an $80-billion crime annually. It has grown more violent, invasive, and costly in recent years. In response to this trend, the HYPERLINK “http://www.insurancefraud.org/”Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a nonprofit alliance of consumer groups, insurance companies, and government agencies, lists its top 10 insurance swindlers of 2006 and inducts them into their Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame.
The Hall of Shame reveals the year's largest, most-brazen, or plain stupid insurance crimes. Below are the top property/casualty fraud schemes that made the Coalition's list:
Carla Patterson. The Newport News, Va. woman said she found a dead mouse in her vegetable soup at a Cracker Barrel restaurant. She demanded $500,000 in insurance money, but Cracker Barrel discovered the rodent had no soup in its lungs, and hadn't been cooked. Patterson received a year in prison.
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