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Organized Fraud Ring Bilks 13 Insurers Out of $600K

A criminal enterprise may have filed at least 65 fraudulent claims, collecting between $400,000 and $600,000 from multiple insurers in two states.

By Christina Bramlet | Updated on August 16, 2013

Northern California authorities have unraveled an organized insurance fraud ring that allegedly spanned two states and bilked 13 insurers out of more than half a million dollars.

A joint investigation between the Contra Costa District Attorney’s office and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) culminated in the arrest of five individuals, whom authorities believe helped carry out the ring’s operations, which ran throughout northern California and northern Nevada and may have collected between $400,000 and $600,000 from various insurance companies.

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