“FLOPPER” FRAUDS
STRANGE AMERICAN STORY FLEECING COMPANIES (United P.A.—By Telegraph■ — Copyright) (Australian P.A.—United Service) NEW YORK, Thursday. It is alleged that 13 lawyers and five doctors are members of a ring which employs men and women to pretend to fall over manhole-covers and obstructions on footpaths, in connection with an elaborate scheme which costs insurance companies £600,000 every year. The scheme was for one man, called the “flopper,” to find a defect in a footpath and to trip over it, when he made a false claim for damages for injury, and a doctor associated with the ring would furnish a false medical certificate.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 405, 13 July 1928, Page 9
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