Thirty-three individuals suspected of setting up or participating in more than a dozen staged accidents and fraudulently billing 11 auto insurance companies nearly $1 million for treat-ment of non-existing injuries and auto damage claims have been arrested.
The arrests follow a two-year investigation that is part of a major crackdown by the Department of Financial Services' Division of Insurance Fraud working with the National Insurance Crime Bureau and representatives of the insurance industry.
The insurance companies defrauded in this investigation, dubbed "Totaled Recall," include Allstate, Dairyland, FAJUA, Geico, Inscorp, Mercury, Ocean Harbor, Progressive, Reliant, Southern Group, and State Farm. Fourteen of the suspects face a minimum two-year prison term if convicted, and more arrests are anticipated.
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