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Liability Risk and Insurance

Car “accident” ring organized major fraud

Critics look with trepidation at some of the reports coming out of the US. In the summer of 2003, for example, officials in New York broke a major insurance fraud ring which had turned the compensation culture to its advantage by orchestrating thousands of car accidents and claiming millions of dollars. One surprising element was the fact that it involved doctors, psychiatrists and dentists.

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