# Kansas To Bolster Its Anti-Fraud Unit

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A new fraud unit within the Kansas Department of Insurance -- with freshly designated prosecution powers -- will go after cheats whose illegal schemes cost Kansans millions of dollars each year, state officials announced Thursday

Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger said at a Statehouse news conference that the state hasn't been making a concerted effort to crack down on insurance fraud for at least four years. And because many of the cases involve relatively small dollar figures, the fraud often went unprosecuted in the "overburdened" local court system.

To remedy that, Praeger asked Attorney General Phill Kline to designate members of the Insurance Department's legal division as assistant attorneys general, granting them the power to bring potential fraud cases to court and to prosecute suspects.

Sources:
- The Capital-Journal (http://www.cjonline.com/stories/103103/kan_fraud.shtml)