This edition’s Fraud of the Week features several fraud cases and is reprinted with permission from the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.

“Operation Collateral Damage” crashed Northern California auto body shops this week. Undercover officers visited 69 Butte and Shasta County body shops to ask for estimates to repair a damaged car. Shop owners or employees were told that damage on one side of the car was from a recent wreck and was covered, and then were asked to fix old damage and still bill insurers. Most shops warned the officers that claiming non-covered damage constituted insurance fraud. But 20 agreed, and now face criminal charges. The California Department of Insurance lists all the shops and suspects at the end of this news release.

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