Liberty tip helps bust major ring.(Brief Article)

National Underwriter Property & Casualty-Risk & Benefits Management, October, 2003 by Hays, Daniel

A tip from Liberty Mutual Insurance Company helped break an auto injury fraud ring that cost insurers "tens of millions" and involved more than 150 people, many of them violent felons, New York City officials said. According to an announcement by the New York Police Department, detectives snared individuals in the group by posing as insurance company representatives and calling them at home to say they could collect a claim check for up to $11,000 by visiting an office in the borough of Queens.

Those who showed up were handcuffed and arraigned on fraud charges. The NYPD, which investigated the case with help from the Brooklyn District Attorney's Office, the National Insurance Crime Bureau and Boston-based Liberty Mutual, said undercover work on the case...

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