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This article follows a previous study on insurance fraud by Dionne and Belhadji (1996). It uses the same data bank. Eighteen companies have contributed to the survey of this study, representing 70% of the Quebec automobile insurance market in 1994. Claim adjusters randomly reopened 2,509 closed files, or 2,772 coverages, to evaluate the significance of insurance fraud. This study was financed by the Insurance Bureau of Canada.
We thank Jean Pinquet for his comments on a previous version that was published in Assurances (1997).
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Caron, L., Dionne, G. (1999). Insurance Fraud Estimation: More Evidence from the Quebec Automobile Insurance Industry. In: Dionne, G., Laberge-Nadeau, C. (eds) Automobile Insurance: Road Safety, New Drivers, Risks, Insurance Fraud and Regulation. Huebner International Series on Risk, Insurance, and Economic Security, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-4058-8_9
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