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		<title>24 Defendants Charged in Health Care Billing Scams</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2011/10/21/144/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 21 Oct 2011 17:56:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[24 Defendants Charged in Health Care Billing Scams that Defrauded Insurers, Medicare and Medicaid Out of Millions of Dollars in New York.
http://www.justice.gov/usao/nys/pressreleases/October11/smirnovkaplankaykovhcfarrestspr.pdf
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		<title>Lunacy in Colorado</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2009/10/05/lunacy-in-colorado/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 12:51:43 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Colorado legislators are considering whether to make it harder for workers comp insurers to use video surveillance to ferret out suspicious injury claims. Legislators on an interim committee are looking into the stateâ€™s largest comp insurer, contending Pinnacol Assuranceâ€™s anti-fraud video surveillance was excessive. Pinnacol says its surveillance is legal and often is the key [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Victory for PA Work Comp Insurers Use of Surveillance</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:30:59 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[DAUPHIN COUNTY REPORTS
121
Tagouma v. Investigative Consultant Services, Inc., et al.
Torts â€” Invasion of Privacy â€” Intrusion upon Seclusion â€” Expectation of Privacy
â€” Abuse of Process.
Plaintiff was videotaped by a private investigator who had been hired
to investigate the validity of his workersâ€™ compensation claim for an
alleged work-related injury. He claimed an invasion of privacy because
he was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK Insurance Fraud Skyrockets</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2009/07/21/uk-insurance-fraud-skyrockets/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 10:58:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Insurance fraud is now estimated to cost insurers Â£5.2million every day, according to a report published by the Association of British Insurers.
But the figures released by ABI show that insurers are now fighting back against fraudulent claims with Â£730million of frauds being detected and prevented last year, which is a 30 per cent increase on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Firefighters Caught by PI</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2009/07/14/firefighters-caught-by-pi/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 15:12:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Haverhill, Mass â€” Four firefighters will be suspended for five days after they were videotaped by a private investigator performing strenuous activities while out sick from their city jobs.
The private eye videotaped the firefighters who called in sick in December and shows the firefighters moving furniture, climbing a ladder, and shoveling and plowing snow. One [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A new campaign targeting insurance fraud was launched in Houston on Monday</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 14 Jul 2009 09:02:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Houston is number 1 in Texas for the number of questionable insurance claims reported and number 4 in the nation for staged accidents.  
It is estimated that fraud cost the insurance industry more than $80 billion dollars a year.
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		<title>Use of faulty insurance data \&#8217;pervasive\&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2009/07/06/use-of-faulty-insurance-data-pervasive/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 06 Jul 2009 10:35:22 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Matthew Perrone has published an artilce on this topic through the Associated Press. 
Congressional investigators said Wednesday two-thirds of the U.S. health insurance industry used a faulty database that overcharged patients for seeing doctors outside their insurance network, costing Americans billions of dollars in inflated medical bills.
The flawed database is operated by Ingenix, a subsidiary [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Cali Groups Oppose Insurance Crime Reclassification</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2009/07/01/cali-groups-oppose-insurance-crime-reclassification/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Jul 2009 10:05:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, the National Insurance Crime Bureau and other organizations oppose California\&#8217;s plan to reclassify most insurance-related crimes from felonies to misdemeanors. In a joint letter to Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, the groups said such crimes merit \&#8221;serious consequences\&#8221; and warned that reducing penalties could lure organized fraud groups to operate in the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fraud increases average insurance bill $300</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2008/01/02/fraud-increases-average-insurance-bill-300/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Jan 2008 10:36:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[By Mike Cronin
TRIBUNE-REVIEW
Wednesday, January 2, 2008
So Allegheny County police accuse a McKeesport couple of swindling three car insurance companies out of roughly $20,000.
Who cares?
Everyone should, says Ralph Burnham, executive director of the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority.
\&#8221;It\&#8217;s a crime we all pay for, because the losses incurred by insurance companies eventually are passed on to [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fires at vacant houses/arson scheme busted up</title>
		<link>http://www.michiganclaimspi.com/insurance-investigator-news/2007/12/27/fires-at-vacant-housesarson-scheme-busted-up/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 09:09:34 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[MUNCIE &#8212; Kenneth Allen, his sister, Vanessa Allen Hatcher, and others are accused of setting a series of house fires in a large-scale arson-for-insurance scheme.
More than a dozen suspects, including private insurance adjuster Douglas Haynes, have been charged with arson or using arson to commit mail fraud.
The scheme involved dozens of homes in Muncie, Anderson [...]]]></description>
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