CASCO: Fraud with contracts It is not uncommon to encounter situations in which from the insurance company with which an automobile collision insurance contract has been concluded attempts to obtain payment illegally. Let's look at the most common cases. TOP-5 Illegal methods of enrichment in motor hull insurance Unscrupulous policyholders come up with many different ways to outsmart the insurance company and illegally enrich themselves. But for each method of fraud, the insurer has its own countermeasure. Double car insurance Fraudsters use this method when the car is already damaged at the time of insurance. Then they find a car of the same make and color and come to insure it with the documents of the damaged car, hoping that the body and chassis number will not be checked. However, when concluding a car insurance contract, an employee of the insurance company is obliged to check the data of the car recorded in the documents with the actual data. Replacement of a drunk dr
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