2016 California Code
Insurance Code - INS
DIVISION 1 - GENERAL RULES GOVERNING INSURANCE
PART 2 - THE BUSINESS OF INSURANCE
CHAPTER 12 - The Insurance Frauds Prevention Act
ARTICLE 2 - Bureau of Fraudulent Claims
Section 1872.9.
1872.9. The Fraud Division shall annually compile and report, as a part of the commissioner s annual report as required by Section 12922, the following information:
(a) The number of cases reported to the division pursuant to this chapter.
(b) The number of cases rejected for which an investigation was not initiated by the division due to insufficient evidence to proceed and the number of cases rejected for which an investigation was not initiated by the division due to any other reason.
(c) The number of cases that were prosecuted in cooperation with licensing agencies governed by the Business and Professions Code.
(d) The number and kind of cases prosecuted as a result of moneys received under Section 1872.7.
(e) An estimate of the economic value of insurance fraud by type of insurance fraud.
(f) Recommendations on ways insurance fraud may be reduced.
(g) A summary of the division s activities with respect to pursuing a reduction of fraud with all of the following:
(1) Insurance companies.
(2) The Department of Motor Vehicles.
(3) The Department of the California Highway Patrol.
(4) Licensing agencies governed by the Business and Professions Code.
(5) The Department of Insurance.
(6) Local and state law enforcement agencies.
(7) Employers, as defined in Section 3300 of the Labor Code, who are self-insured for workers compensation and doing business in the state.
(h) Basic claims information including trends of payments by type of claim and other claim information that is generally provided in a closed claim study.
(i) A summary of the division s activities with respect to the reduction, pursuant to Section 1871.4, of fraudulent denials and payments of compensation.
(j) The number and types of cases investigated and prosecuted with funds specified in Section 1872.83.
(Amended by Stats. 2005, Ch. 717, Sec. 10. Effective January 1, 2006.)
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