13 Arrested for Insurance Scam

Police arrested 13 people yesterday morning for staging a series of false car accidents in order to milk insurance companies for cash.

According to police, the scam's ringleader would convince his cohorts to pack themselves into two sets of cars and then stage a minor accident. The "victims" would then solicit medical attention for phantom maladies from four clinics in the Bronx. The clinics' employees, who were in on the scheme, would bill car insurance companies for bogus treatments. Police say the clinics paid the ringleader between $1,500 and $2,500 for each fake accident victim he sent them, and victims were in turn paid between $300 and $500 for their trouble. Police say they have yet to arrest the operation's ringleader.