Alice Ross, an engaging 71-year-old
grandmother, died when her Buick was rammed by a car packed with gang members
allegedly staging a crash in Brooklyn to make fake injury claims against
insurance companies.
Increasingly, violent crashes staged by large gangs are among the
widespread swindles that state insurance fraud bureaus now confront.
Still, these fraud-fighting agencies earned nearly a third more criminal
convictions from 2001 through 2002 despite often thinly stretched budgets and
tougher fraud schemes, says a new study by the Coalition Against Insurance
Fraud.
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