Crooked windshield replacement shops have discovered a way to manipulate repair prices to stick auto insurers with millions in overcharges, investigators were told by a fraud expert.
The alert came from attorney Dennis Kass, with the Los Angeles office of Manning & Marder in a session Friday at the annual seminar of the International Association of Special Investigation Units.
Mr. Kass said, among the thousands of glass claims coming in, the outlaw shops were improperly adding $150 a claim and "carriers are bleeding."
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