NU Online News Service, Oct. 26, 1:40 p.m. EDT

New Jersey's top insurance regulator recently announced the creation of a new unit that will focus exclusively on insurance fraud.

Tom Considine, commissioner of the Department of Banking and Insurance in the state, unveiled the Bureau of Fraud Deterrence, which he said is comprised of 90 civil investigators and staff who were previously part of the Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor in the Attorney General's Office.

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