Probers Taught How To Unmask Auto Cheats
Monday, September 27th, 1999 AutoWeapons for derailing auto accident frauds include “Dumpster diving” to sift evidence from garbage, close surveillance and injury chart comparisons, a pair of experts advised investigators at a recent international fraud conference in Dallas. Atlanta attorney William P. Claxton of Claxton & Claxton and Larry G. Henning vice president of MJM Investigations Inc. in Morrisville, N.C. made their suggestions at the annual seminar of the Baltimore-based International Association of Special Investigative Units. Their arsenal of methods were outlined during a session that included a give-and-take dialogue with the audience and a video dramatizing the types of scenarios used by insurance cheats. Scene number one in the video demonstrated elements of a “jump in” fraud.
