Hacker News with Generative AI: Insurance Fraud

We Found Insurance Fraud in Our Crash Data (levs.fyi)
When we set out to build geospatial risk scores for vehicle crashes at Matrisk AI, we never expected that a side by side look at Vehicle Identification Numbers and crash timelines would hint at possible insurance fraud. But data sometimes surprises you. Below, I’ll walk through how we stumbled upon this discovery, what we found, and why it might matter for anyone insuring vehicles.
"Slow Pay, Low Pay or No Pay": Blue Cross Approved Surgeries Then Refused to Pay (propublica.org)
Blue Cross authorized mastectomies and breast reconstructions for women with cancer but refused to pay the full doctors’ bills. A jury called it fraud and awarded the practice $421 million.
Farmers systematically destroying NWS sensors to claim crop insurance (coloradosun.com)
Over the winter of 2016 into the spring of 2017, U.S. weather experts watching southeastern Colorado noticed something they’d never seen before.