Sinkholes a new frontier of fraud

We think small. Mostly, we’re content to fake car wrecks. Not that South Florida, led by Miami and Hialeah, doesn’t do a bang-up job staging bang-ups. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, South Florida ranks second in the nation among metropolitan regions prone to collecting insurance claims for phantom injuries in auto accidents that never occurred. The report speaks to a certain theatrical flair endemic to South Florida’s brand of insurance fraud.