National Insurance Crime Bureau Adopts Internet-Scanning Tool to Fight Fraud

The National Insurance Crime Bureau has partnered with Social Intelligence to scan the internet for workers' compensation fraud. The bureau, a non-profit established to fight insurance fraud and vehicle theft, will use Social Intelligence's Workbench program, the organizations announced in a Tuesday press release. Workbench allows users to search through publicly-available information online and compile it into reports which can be saved and accessed later. The tool searches through websites such as blogs, social media networks and message boards. "Social media investigations ar...