Prosecutions for workers' compensation fraud in Florida have been ticking up year after year and are more than double the number from eight years ago, the Department of Financial Services' latest annual report on insurance fraud shows.
Another trend buried in the data is the crackdown and prosecution of employers. More employers were convicted than “employee claimants,” sometimes called the low-hanging fruit in fraud investigations, according to statistics obtained from the Florida Department of Financial Services's Insurance Fraud Division.
That’s not a fluke, ...
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