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    • Borough Park Body Shop Blamed For Embellished Bills


    by on Jun 24th, 2011

    from brooklynda.org via newyork.cbslocal.com

    Yesterday, Brooklyn District Attorney Charles Hynes indicted a Borough Park body shop for fraudulently inflating customers’ insurance bills.

    From CBS:

    Hynes said the “Perfect Collision” body shop in Borough Park caused “enhanced damage” to cars brought into their shop “thereby increasing the profit margin.”

    According to the borough’s lead prosecutor, even the insurer’s policy of paying for accident victims’ car rentals wasn’t safe from the conniving collision shop.

    Hynes said the company was even charging Geico for rental cars that were never requested. The District Attorney said all the case did was jack up insurance premiums.

    Reports indicate that the investigation was spurred by a Geico adjuster who, while at the shop photographing a car, just happened to notice a minivan that he was scheduled to examine the following day.

    The adjuster took a few photos of the minivan, which had very minor damage. When he returned the next day, it had “new, extensive damage to the fender, driver-side door and other areas, according to the indictment.”

    The insurer then sent an undercover detective to the body shop with a pre-photographed car, in order to catch them in the act.

    CBS- Brooklyn District Attorney: Borough Park Body Shop ‘Perfect Collision’ Inflated Insurance Bills

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    • LuLu

      I think it’s terrible when people do things like this. This is why our insurance rates are through the roof!

    • nolastname

      That adjuster deserves a bonus. What a catch, maybe something all adjusters should copycat to be observant making the rounds. This has been going on in numerous shady businesses forever.

    • nolastname

      If all the out of state illegally insured cars were made to insure in N.Y. they would have to open new agencies. There’s the money,honey.

    • nolastname

      Sorry for the multiple comments but…Insurance fraud really bothers the hell out of me. If a persons E-Z Pass shows usage to and from Brooklyn/Staten Island I would assume they are insured in one or the other. But, if the same person is insured in Pennsylvania or Indiana and the E-Z Pass never saw inside the state I think you’ve go something illegal going on. My question…… Is it possible for systems to be crossed linked to pick up such findings?

    • Kiska777

      I totally agree with you… There is a way to check all the out-of-staters, if only someone set their mind to do it… As an insurance company employee, I see a lot of that going on, and I try to stop it, telling people their scheming won’t pay in an event of a claim… Some, however, are oblivious to the fact that they are hurting others financially…