New SIU Rules Take Effect Oct. 1

Insurance companies will have until Oct. 1 to come to grips with new rules for special investigative units that the California Department of Insurance adopted to address its concerns about insufficient efforts to stamp out fraud. New rules require that SIU workers receive five hours of continuing anti-fraud training each year, and make a handful of changes the department said are intended to improve the quality of fraud referrals that insurance companies are submitting. Specifically, CDI said the new rules require that the narrative synopsis of referrals include: The facts that caused the ...