Inflation and fabrication of tow, recovery and hazmat invoices has become big business. With increasing frequency, towers are holding everything from heavy equipment to automobiles hostage while demanding payment of unreasonable invoices. Storage continues to accrue and insurers are regularly confronted with difficult choices to pay or fight. This presentation will outline ways in which to identify suspect recoveries and inflated/fraudulent invoices and provide strategies to investigate, mitigate and litigate these disputes.
