ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State says nearly 270 officers, troopers, and federal agents have completed their training to detect car insurance fraud, as part of the state\u2019s new law aiming to lower car insurance premiums by combating fraud.<\/p>\n
New York State Police is partnering with the state\u2019s Department of Financial Services to train officials in detecting, investigating, and prosecuting financial crimes, including car insurance fraud. So far, officials from 55 different state, local, and federal agencies have completed their training at the NYSP Academy in Albany.<\/p>\n
NYSP plans to permanently incorporate financial crimes training in its curriculum for the Bureau of Criminal Investigation. State Police leaders say they\u2019re aiming to promote partnerships across departments when it comes to investigating insurance fraud. <\/p>\n
Gov. Kathy Hochul says the state is experiencing a sharp increase in car insurance fraud reports and the burden is falling on law-abiding car owners. As News10NBC has covered, Hochul\u2019s plan to reduce premiums involves cracking down on staged crashes, such as when a driver cuts off another car and then stops abruptly, to get an insurance payout. However, some parts of her plan are more contentious<\/a>, such as policies that would cap pain and suffering damages for drivers injured in some types of crashes.\u00a0<\/p>\n Hochul\u2019s plan calls for capping payouts for drivers engaged in criminal behavior at the time of the crash, including uninsured drivers, drunk drivers, and drivers committing a felony. That means an uninsured driver, for example, would face a $100,000 cap on non-economic damage if they were seriously injured in a crash, even if the crash wasn\u2019t their fault. News10NBC\u2019s Deanna Dewey explained how this could play out in a real-world scenario.\u00a0You can see her story and extended interviews\u00a0here<\/a>.<\/p>\n Hochul\u2019s proposal on insurance fraud became law in May, after the state budget passed<\/a> following an eight-week delay. <\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tFor Related Stories:\u00a0New York State law<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0car insurance fraud<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0police training<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALBANY, N.Y. \u2014 New York State says nearly 270 officers, troopers, and federal agents have completed their training…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211626,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[115226,9,11,10,49,51,50,63958,115227],"class_list":["post-303990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-car-insurance-fraud","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-new-york-state","tag-new-york-state-headlines","tag-new-york-state-news","tag-new-york-state-law","tag-police-training"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303990","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=303990"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/303990\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=303990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=303990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=303990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}