Insurance fraud is any act committed to defraud an insurance process. This occurs when a claimant attempts to obtain some benefit or advantage they are not entitled to, or when an insurer knowingly denies some benefit that is due. There are two types of insurance fraud: hard fraud, which occurs when someone deliberately fakes an accident, injury, theft, arson or other loss to collect money illegally from insurance companies, or soft fraud, in which normally honest people often tell “little white lies” to their insurance company for the purposes of filing or maximizing a claim.
