You don’t find Florida’s consumer advocates and Florida’s insurance companies holding hands very often, but they have become best buddies in the fight to end the state’s reputation as the national center of auto insurance fraud. According to the insurance industry, Tampa, Miami and Orlando are three of four leading cities for fraud, after New
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“Auto insurance fraud crackdown in Miami-Dade”
When the owner of a West Miami-Dade medical clinic schemed to bill insurance companies for staged auto accidents, she did not know that an undercover witness was secretly recording her, authorities say. “Bring me good stuff,” Elsa Terrero, of New Horizon Practice, told a cooperating witness, according to an arrest warrant released Wednesday. “I control
Miami-Dade school bus drivers may soon be banned from sending text messages while driving
School Board member Larry Feldman has proposed a new rule that would prohibit bus drivers from using iPhones, Blackberrys and cellphones while on the road — except in cases of an emergency. If his proposal passes, new rules would also apply to every district employee driving a district-owned vehicle. Those employees, too, would be banned
Off-road vehicle riders, ATV and dirt bike enthusiasts might one day have a place to rev their engine and kick up dust
But first, they need the backing of several local, state and federal agencies. The proposal to use an isolated runway in the Everglades, which was once envisioned to create the largest airport in the world, could now be home to the 54,000 off road vehicle riders registered within 100 miles from the site, according to
