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The United Public Workers of America (1946–1952) was an American labor union representing federal, state, county, and local government employees. The union challenged the constitutionality of the Hatch Act of 1939, which prohibited federal executive branch employees from engaging in politics. [3]
In the United Kingdom, the Insurance Fraud Bureau estimates that the loss due to insurance fraud in the United Kingdom is about £1.5 billion ($3.08 billion), causing a 5% increase in insurance premiums. [11] The Insurance Bureau of Canada estimates that personal injury fraud in Canada costs about C$500 million annually. [12]
Insurance fraud includes a wide variety of schemes in which insureds attempt to defraud their own insurance carriers, but when the victim is a private individual, the con artist tricks the mark into damaging, for example, the con artist's car, or injuring the con artist, in a manner that the con artist can later exaggerate.
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Suspects allegedly dressed up as bears to carry out fake attacks on cars as part of an insurance scam. Upon further scrutiny of the video, an investigation determined the bear was a person in a ...
In April 1950, insurance workers followed Allan Haywood under a new Insurance and Allied Workers Organizing Committee; Richard T. Leonard succeeded Haywood. In 1953, these insurance workers held a convention in Cleveland to form a new union, the Insurance Workers of America . [ 6 ]
Jack Kilmer plays a junkie attempting to get clean in the health insurance scam thriller "Body Brokers," written and directed by John Swab.