Additional Facts about IFRR

At the October 1992 meeting of The International Association of Insurance Fraud Agencies (IAIFA) in Atlanta, Georgia, the Massachusetts IFB volunteered to organize the available research into an Insurance Fraud Research Register as an IAIFA project for 1993.

Our goals were:

1. To identify all available research on insurance fraud from whatever source;

2. To encourage company research departments, local fraud agencies and local academic institutions to get involved and use their resources to study insurance fraud; and

3. To identify all publicly available databases on insurance fraud which could be made available to researchers.

In the intervening twelve years, 158 IAIFA members and researchers from 20 countries signed up to help build and share the IFRR. We have cataloged all the substantive insurance research made known to us in the form of a bibliographic listing of 361 items, with 53 new items added since the last report in November, 2002. The Register has become annotated in order to increase its usefulness to the participants. Our aim was to summarize briefly the content of each research paper so that our users can decide efficiently whether the reference is pertinent to their interests. We will distribute updated lists periodically to interested IAIFA members and researchers who are, or want to be, on our list of participants.