The International Association of Investigation Units announced yesterday that Ed Welch, an SIU investigator for State Farm Insurance, was named its 2007 Investigator of the Year for a probe that saved his company more than $1.3 million.

Mr. Welch was among four persons honored at the group's 22nd Annual Seminar & Expo on Insurance Fraud being held in Las Vegas.

National Insurance Crime Bureau's Special Agent Fred Burkhardt received IASIU's 2007 Outstanding Service Award. Detective Henry Thomas Clark of the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud received the 2007 Public Service Award, and Diann Williford, a field information analyst with NICB, was named IASIU's 2007 Analyst of the Year.

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