The purpose of this article is to confront aggressively the problem of insurance fraud in this state by facilitating the detection of insurance fraud, eliminating the occurrence of fraud through the development of fraud prevention programs, requiring the restitution of fraudulently obtained insurance benefits, and reducing the amount of premium dollars used to pay fraudulent claims.
(Added by Stats. 1994, Ch. 1008, Sec. 1. Effective January 1, 1995.)