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Florida homeowner featured on ‘60 Minutes’ wants class-action case against insurer ... to criminal “fraud” under state law, the Rapkins and their lawyer alleged in a Tuesday court filing ...
Florida's Division of Insurance Fraud continues to lead the fight against insurance fraud under the leadership of Colonel John Askins. During Fiscal year 2008/2009, investigative efforts by The Division of Insurance Fraud resulted in 982 cases presented for prosecution, 834 arrests, and 532 convictions. Also during Fiscal Year 2008/2009, The ...
After some Florida insurance companies were accused of shortchanging customers’ claims after Hurricane Ian last year, Gov. Ron DeSantis and state regulators are warning insurance companies to ...
[39] Since October 2016, the Task Force has made more than 85 arrests for patient brokering and insurance fraud, and has led to new Florida laws and regulations that have become the model for other states. [40] [41] Aronberg's efforts also convinced Google to restrict advertisements and improve screening for addiction treatment. [42]
But Montagne said he doesn’t think the new laws are any sort of a win for consumers. ... puts the average Florida insurance premium at $5,533 for a $300,000 home compared to the $2,230 national ...
Insurance fraud may be proseucuted as a crime in all states, whether under general fraud statutes or those that specifically pertain to insurance claims and coverage. The federal government has passed a statute that criminalizes the act of defrauding a health care benefit plan, Section 1347 of Title 18 of the United States Code .
A 2021 analysis by then-Florida Insurance Commissioner David Altmaier found that Florida made up 8% of the nation’s homeowners’ claims in 2019, but 76% of its lawsuits.
Guarantee Security Life Insurance Company, or GSLIC, represented one of the most severe cases of insurance fraud in Florida history. According to the Florida Insurance Commissioner: [GSLIC] was, almost from the beginning, a massive fraud, aided and abetted by blue-ribbon brokers and licensed professionals motivated by their own self-interest.