Go figure: fraud data

 

Slip & fall injuries

Swindlers will pretend to slip or trip and injure themselves to fraudulently collect insurance settlements or other payouts. Often the swindlers threaten an expensive lawsuit to extort fast payouts. Businesses are frequent targets.

1. Three percent of slip-and-fall injuries are fraudulent. (National Floor Safety Institute)

1. Bogus injury claims and related costs such as litigation amount to nearly $2 billion a year. (ibid)