MPI releases Top 5 frauds for 2007

An insured arranging to have his vehicle stolen in lieu of keeping up payments on the vehicle is the Number 1 fraud for 2007, according to Manitoba Public Insurance’s (MPI) list of Top 5 frauds for 2007.
Number 2 on the list was a man who claimed he had accidentally driven his truck into the river. But when when the Jeep was recovered, a rope, which allowed the claimant to escape the vehicle, was found.
In the third fraud to crack MPI’s Top 5 list, a Dodge quad cab pickup truck equipped with an immobilizer and the keys of which were accounted for was allegedly stolen from a parking lot.
It was later found burnt in rural Manitoba. A set of tracks confirmed the vehicle had been driven there.
MPI noted the insurance claimant for the Dodge quad pickup noted above was apparently having a rough time making the $870 per month lease payment on the truck.
In Fraud 4 on the list, a driver who held only a learners permit was involved in a collision. She reported the claim, telling the adjuster that she had the required supervising passenger with her. However, upon further investigation, the supervising passenger denied having been in the car.
Finally, rounding out the Top 5 is a man who had already previously been convicted of filing a false statement in 2004. Clearly not learning from past lessons, he claimed a foot injury suffered in a motorcycle crash had left him unable to work and disability payments were made.
Later it had been revealed he had returned to work while at the same time collecting his disability payments.
By uncovering these top five fraud claims, among others, MPI says it has saved motorists nearly Cdn$40 million over the last years in terms of money recovered and fraudulent claims denied.