Achievements
View our online 2007 annual report.
The coalition was founded in 1993 as the nation's only anti-fraud alliance speaking for consumers, insurance companies, government agencies and others.
We are helping to unify America's fraud fight. In just a few short years, we've become the voice of the anti-fraud community and a trusted source of information on all aspects of insurance fraud. Among our achievements...
Government Affairs
• Enact stronger laws. We serve as a leading national source for tough anti-fraud legislation and regulation. Our model anti-fraud laws take a hardline stance against all aspects of this crime. They're endorsed by major national groups representing state legislators. Nineteen states have passed anti-fraud laws based on the coalition's model insurance fraud bill, the most-comprehensive model ever drafted for insurance fraud.
• Create model bills. We have developed model bills making it a crime to recruit people into fraud schemes and to hire recruiters, creating a state fraud bureau, requiring inspections and photos for used vehicles before the owner buys auto insurance and guidelines for anti-fraud regulations.
• Strengthen anti-fraud. The coalition routinely advises state legislators and regulators on anti-fraud laws and strategy, and acts as official advisor to key organizations that represent state lawmakers, regulators, investigators and consumers.
• Hold major summits. We sponsor national and state summits that bring together leading fraud fighters from industry, government and elsewhere to focus on key anti-fraud issues, and build consensus about ways to fight back.
• Support prosecutions. The coalition supports stronger state fraud prosecution by filing amicus briefs with the Massachusetts supreme court when trial lawyers sought to undercut funding of fraud prosecutors. The court ruled in favor of state funding, and used some of the coalition's language in its decision.
Alerting the Public
• Earn national news coverage. We raise public awareness of insurance fraud, and
how public can fight back. We're a leading national expert for the
news media. The coalition regularly places stories with news outlets
such as 
the Wall Street Journal, New York Times,
BusinessWeek, U.S. News & World Report, USA
Today, Associated Press, Forbes, Fortune,
60 Minutes, 20-20, NBC Today Show, CBS,
ABC and NBC news, Prime Time, and Court
TV.
• Provide definitive website. No other Internet site provides the depth of information on insurance fraud in the U. S., fulfiling a needed service to the entire fraud-fighting community — consumers, anti-fraud professionals, researchers, public officials and others. Ranked #1 in Google search engines for the last eight years. More than 9,000 pages on the Internet are linked to InsuranceFraud.org.
• Empower consumers The coalition offers hard-hitting consumer information to exand their understanding of the problem, help them avoid 
becoming victims, encouraging them to report fraud and helps them make better ethical decisions in buying and using insurance. Consumer materials available include videos, posters and
full-color brochures offering vital practical advice and alerts.
They're titled, Fraud:
The Crime You Pay For.
• Sponsor Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame. This website feature helps to stir moral outrage and reveal the high price everyone pays for insurance swindles.
• Alert consumers. We reveal fast-moving scams — bogus
health insurance, staged car accidents, swindles against seniors,
discount medical cards, airbag fraud, glass replacement scams, insurance
agents stealing your money, and more. We were the first national
group to alert America about fake health plans being sold around
the U.S.
• Unite outreach efforts. The coalition sponsored summits exploring a national public-outreach campaign on how to educate the public about fraud issues. A comprehensive white paper was published on the need for a unified national outreach effort.
• Educate ethnic groups. An outreach campaign was launched to educate Asian-Americans about insurance fraud — how they can avoid becoming victims, and why they should avoid becoming involved in scams.
• Publish latest insider trends and news. Our weekly insider newsletter helps to expose the newest fraud cases and trends from around the nation. Insurance Fraud Weekly ePort is the nation’s leading outlet for breaking fraud news. Thousands of fraud fighters subscribe to it and depend on it to help keep them abreast of key issues involving legislation, regulations, court decisions, public affairs, and recent criminal and civil cases. In addition, the quarterly newsletter, Fraud Focus, includes more indepth articles about fraud trends, expert opinions and other fraud developments.
Research
• Sponsor major research. Numerous
research studies and
reports about insurance fraud, its causes, effects and how fraud
is being combated has been commissioned by the coalition, whichis considered a leading source
of fact-
based data and information about fraud.
• Publish study of fraud bureaus. This comprehensive annual report provides indepth information about the activities of agencies that investigate and prosecute insurance fraud. Contains latest data on fraud convictions… cases referred for prosecution… cases being investigated… statistical rankings of fraud bureau results… and other useful material. Click here for study.
