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Insurance fraud facts • Recognized as America’s second most costly white-collar crime. • Costs the average Virginia household up to $1,000 a year. • Robs the nation of nearly $85 billion a year. • One out of six Virginians claims to know someone who received workers’ compensation for an injury that did not occur on the job. • More than one of every three bodily-injury claims from car crashes involves fraud. • Arson and suspected arson account for nearly 500,000 fires a year, or one of every four fires in the U.S. SOURCE: Coalition Against Insurance Fraud: IFP Statew ide Survey on Insurance Fraud, Insurance Fraud Research Council: National Fire Protection Association \ o
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