SC insurance-fraud claims double in 2010

Aiken County was home to only $66,000 of the $14.5 million in suspected insurance fraud cases reported to the South Carolina Attorney General’s office last year. And of nearly 600 cases received, only 13 originated in Aiken County, according to the state’s annual report. The cases received in 2010 amounted to nearly $14.5 million in insurance fraud, more than twice the dollar amount reported in 2009. Of that, $11.9 million related to automobile insurance fraud, according to a year-end report released this week.