{"id":201542,"date":"2026-04-18T03:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201542\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T03:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T03:34:14","slug":"new-york-expands-crackdown-on-insurance-fraud-and-staged-car-crashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/201542\/","title":{"rendered":"New York expands crackdown on insurance fraud and staged car crashes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new partnership between state agencies is targeting schemes that cost taxpayers millions.<\/p>\n<p>BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 New York is expanding its crackdown on insurance fraud through a new partnership between state agencies aimed at detecting and prosecuting financial crimes, including staged car crashes.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Kathy Hochul on Friday announced the initiative, which brings together the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wgrz.com\/crime\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">New York State Police<\/a> and the New York State Department of Financial Services.<\/p>\n<p>State officials said the collaboration is designed to improve investigations into fraud schemes that can endanger first responders and burden the public.<\/p>\n<p>Hochul said staged crashes have consequences beyond insurance costs, pointing to the impact on emergency personnel who respond to false incidents.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Look at what it does to firefighters. You get called out from your family dinner table or from what you&#8217;re doing in a more emergency situation, be responding to someone who&#8217;s having a heart attack,&#8221; Hochul said. &#8220;You have to drop everything and go respond, putting yourself in danger to a staged accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to the governor, about 1,700 staged accidents are reported each year in New York.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You are the front line of having to deal with this spectacle, and that&#8217;s why this is so important to make these points here today,&#8221; Hochul said.<\/p>\n<p>The new enforcement effort is intended to strengthen the state\u2019s ability to identify fraudulent activity and pursue prosecutions tied to staged crashes and other financial crimes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A new partnership between state agencies is targeting schemes that cost taxpayers millions. BUFFALO, N.Y. \u2014 New York&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":201543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":{"0":"post-201542","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-new-york-headlines","10":"tag-new-york-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=201542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/201543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=201542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=201542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=201542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}