Barry Zalma has totally rewritten his seminal E-Book on
insurance fraud and has added over 600 pages to the original
book.
Insurance
fraud continually takes more money each year than it did the
last from the insurance buying public. Estimates of the
extent of insurance fraud in the United States range from
$87 billion to $300 billion every year.
In truth, no one
really knows the extent of insurance fraud because most
frauds succeed without the insurer even suspecting that it
is being defrauded. Insurers and government backed
pseudo-insurers can only estimate the extent they lose to
fraudulent claims. No one will ever place an exact number on
the amount lost to insurance fraud but everyone who has
looked at the issue know – in their heart and gut – that the
number is enormous and that when insurers and governments
put out effort to reduce the amount of insurance fraud the
number of claims presented to insurers and the
pseudo-insurers drops logarithmically.
It is the purpose of
the E-book to
provide information to those who are engaged in the effort
to reduce insurance fraud. It will provide information for
the lawyers representing insurers so that they can
adequately advise their clients who are victims of the crime
of insurance fraud.
This E-book will
provide information for insurance claims investigators,
special insurance fraud investigators working at insurance
company Special Investigation Units (SIU), Fraud Bureau
Investigators, and Prosecutors will have the information
needed to allow prosecution of insurance criminals to
proceed. Prosecutors will also have sufficient information
to understand the importance of the crime and the need to
reduce the crime by effective prosecution and punishment of
the insurance fraud perpetrators.
By including the full text of decisions
from courts of appeal, state supreme courts, and federal
courts across the country
the reader can understand what happens after the
investigation is completed in order to better complete the
investigation. Since the effort to reduce
insurance fraud requires the assistance of courts – both
civil and criminal – the prudent fraud investigator,
insurance adjuster, insurance attorney or insurance Special
Investigation Units, and insurance management will have the
information to deal with state investigators and
prosecutors. It is also necessary to read the full text of
decisions of the courts of appeal to fully understand the
facts gathered by the investigators and prosecutors.
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