The Insurance Journal is reporting that a national insurance group has discovered that two staged car accident rings in Oklahoma City are actually part f a national trend.
The NICB (National Insurance Crime Bureau) says the number of scams involving staged car wrecks and false insurance claims are on the rise. The Bureau’s Special Agent Mark Wenthold says that Oklahoma City investigative teams have given evidence to prosecutors in two local cases.
Wenthold said that there is one local ring that used the same cars, and the same individuals, multiple times.
The other ring, he said, involved nationwide travelers who typically rent big trucks and crash them into SUVs, then claim that the sport utility vehicle held passengers who suffered injuries.