Questionable Comp Claims Decline as Others Increase

Workers' comp bucked a larger trend of increasing referrals of questionable claims by insurer members of the National Insurance Crime Bureau, declining 9% in the first half 2010 while the number of questionable claim referrals in all other areas increased, the NICB reported Monday.The NICB's analysis for the first half of 2010 examines six referral reason categories of claims—property, casualty, commercial, workers' compensation, vehicle and miscellaneous.    Overall there was a 14% increase in questionable claims in four of the six categories in 2010 when comp...