Second Annual Mercury Insurance ’Best of the Worst Claims’

Insurance fraud, the second most costly white collar crime in America (behind tax evasion) continues to grow, with questionable claims rising 26.7 percent across the U.S. in the two-year period from 2010-2012. The Mercury Insurance Special Investigation Unit (SIU), otherwise known as the CSI of the insurance industry, consists of 50 investigators nationwide who inspect questionable claims from people looking to lie, cheat and steal their way into a few extra bucks. Below are Mercury’s 2013 "Best of the Worst Claims," which highlight some of the inartistic methods people enlisted to beat the system … but lost.