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Mitchell Accelerates Total Loss Settlements���
Mitchell’s advanced vehicle valuation solution now delivers full lender coverage and automated tax and fee calculations for total loss claims.
These enhancements are designed to streamline the total loss settlement process for carriers by integrating Mitchell’s advanced WorkCenter® platform with technologies from LossExpress and Claim Toolkit.
Mitchell WorkCenter Total Loss combines the company’s best-in-class physical damage claims handling solutions with J.D. Power data analysis and pricing techniques to generate fair market values for vehicles declared a total loss. Integrating the LossExpress technology with WorkCenter Total Loss gives carriers access to the largest active lienholder network and lender coverage for loan payoff amounts, as well as document procurement for all finance, vehicle and asset types within Mitchell’s cloud-based solution.
Source: Mitchell The investigation found Reis, the owner of Chalfont Collision Center, concocted an insurance fraud scheme where he would wipe a compound mixture onto the body of several vehicles and sometimes strike them with a hammer, making it appear as if the vehicles were involved in an accident, so he could bill insurance companies for more money.
Because Chalfont Collision Center was a direct repair center for Erie Insurance and numerous other insurance companies, the collision center’s credentials meant they were verified by the insurance companies and were authorized to write estimates, complete the repairs and submit the estimate/billing documents for payment, speeding up repair time for customers.
As the investigation progressed, Bucks County detectives contacted other insurance companies to see if they had also gotten falsified insurance claims from Chalfont Collision. Erie Insurance, Nationwide Insurance, CSAA Insurance Group and Liberty Mutual Insurance collectively identified 289 estimates that contained artificial or inflated damages incorporated into the true facts of the estimates, submitted by Chalfont Collision between 2014 and 2022.
The insurance companies identified $426,233.64 in fraudulent claims paid to Chalfont Collision Center, including 185 by Liberty Mutual Insurance for $312,265.83.
Bucks County detectives, along with the Pennsylvania Office of Attorney General and the Central Bucks Regional Police Department, executed a search warrant at Chalfont Collision on March 25, seizing evidence that included photographs, files and computers.
“There is a tendency for some people to think of insurance fraud as a victimless crime,” District Attorney Matt Weintraub said. “That is, until the financial losses from those fraudulent claims are passed onto us in the form of higher insurance rates. I commend our investigators and prosecutors in our Insurance Fraud Unit for holding Mr. Reis and his body shop criminally and financially accountable.”
This investigation was conducted by the Bucks County detectives, with assistance of Central Bucks Regional Police Department, the Attorney General’s Office and the Special Investigations Units for Erie Insurance, Nationwide Insurance, CSAA InsuranceGroup and Liberty Mutual Insurance.
This case is assigned for prosecution to Deputy District Attorney Marc J. Furber.
Source: Bucks County District Attorney’s Office
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