Houston area shops charge for repairs they never made

Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 2:08 am

With the aid of John Fowler of the American Insurance Services, the Houston police department uncovered an insurance fraud operation of huge proportions.

“There is no regulation of the auto repair industry. The National Insurance Crime Bureau estimated that every family in the United States pays an extra $1,000 a year in insurance premiums to cover the cost of fraud.”