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Sinkholes a new frontier of fraud

By Fred Grimm
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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. (Lending new relevance to the old stage expression, “break a leg.”)

But for sheer audacity, we’ve got nothing on those nice folks up in central Florida, whose insurance claims suggest the whole damn region is being sucked, homes and all, down into the very bowels of the earth.

Geologists insist they’ve noticed no particular increase in geological activity. No sudden burst of chasms, fissures, dents, voids, cavities thereabouts. Yet it was as if homeowners of Hernando, Pasco and Hillsborough counties (affectionately known among insurance adjusters as “sinkhole alley”) were living through some real life disaster movie.

The earth did not move. No more than usual. Yet since 2006, the Citizens Property Insurance Corporation has been beset with sinkhole claims. In Hernando, according to a Florida senate report issued in December, sinkhole claims have risen 375 percent, in Pasco by 187 percent, in Hillsborough by 384 percent.

We wouldn’t mind so much in South Florida (having a rather tenuous perch on the moral high ground when it comes to insurance fraud), except the state-run Citizens has also become our flimsy provider-of-last-resort for windstorm insurance. It comes as something of a shock to discover that although we’ve been bypassed by major hurricanes since 2005, our pricey public-run catastrophic insurance company has become engulfed in a financial sinkhole. Citizens now pays out about four times more in sinkhole claims than it receives in premiums.

Read more: [link to www.miamiherald.com]

That's why the say all the nuts roll down to Florida. I did. :)

TRUE they all come from fucking New york - New jersey
I cant tell you how many assholes I have met here who come from there every single one of them are NASTY fuckers...
RUDE as hell...


then there is the 'elderly' we dont know where these ones come from maybe they are dropped off by families who want to get rid of them they just drop them off at the door step... they cant even see over the steering wheel how the fuck they have a driving license is beyond me they drive through buildings I shit you not... they wear diapers and then go food shopping and shit them self as they shop for FOOD! you can hear it its so fen GROSS!

not making any of this up

why haven't you started smoking it is the better question.

if you deny the earth changes at this point, you can only be doing so out of an ignorance borne of fear. the only way to ease fear in any real sense is within.

[link to www.geohazardsinc.com]

People have paid insurance for years and years, now when it might be needed, they will jerk that proverbial rug? Insurance company's are right there with the lawyers, bankers and Democrats.

You are so right b/c I use to live there just 4 weeks ago, thank god I left, They are all from NJ and New York, atleast on the east coast.

cost benefit analysis

yup, you said it so well!!