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Prevent Fraud
Common property insurance fraud
- Providing deceptive information as part of a claim about the cause or date of loss or property location
- Knowingly inflating the value of damaged property on an otherwise legitimate claim
- Intentionally damaging property to make a claim
- Staging a burglary or theft and then falsely reporting a claim for stolen or damaged property
- Asking a vendor to inflate a repair estimate or invoice by the deductible amount or more
- Creating a false repair bill or receipt in support of a claim
- Concealing the use of or misstating the value of a residence to an insurance agent to reduce an insurance premium
- Submitting false information to or permitting false information to be submitted by an inspector in order to obtain a wind mitigation premium credit
Learn more about how you can identify, report and help stop insurance fraud.