Commissioner Steve Poizner of the California Department of Insurance alerted motorists earlier today of the dangers of deliberately-induced automobile collisions, perpetrated by those who seek to profit from auto insurance fraud.

More than 60% of all the cases of fraud reported to the California Department of Insurance have been related to automotive insurance. These fraudulent schemes would have resulted in over $182 million worth of total losses for California auto insurance providers, had they not been detected and reported.