Lawmakers call for more funds for insurance fraud unit
Michigan’s legislators are calling for the creation of a new agency that would get to the bottom of the state’s pressing auto insurance fraud issues. The lawmakers’ call follows the shaky establishment of the anti-fraud unit within the Department of Insurance and Financial Services last month by Gov. Rick Snyder. According to DIFS senior deputy director and general counsel Randall Gregg, the anti-fraud unit came with no additional money or employees to investigate fraud, which meant the DIFS had to move around and rely upon its own personnel for investigations.