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RUTH JOHNSON - MICHIGAN SECRETARY OF STATE

The Ruth Report

October Edition 2013

Cracking down on auto insurance fraud

Johnson to work with police, prosecutors, state and industry leaders
Dear Friends, We will be working with the Michigan State Police, prosecutors and state and industry leaders to crack down on auto insurance fraud. All honest Michigan Johnson, saying every honest Michigan driver is paying for auto drivers are paying for insurance fraud, announces her new FAIR or Fighting Auto Insurance Rip-offs initiative. cheaters who try to game the system with fraudulent insurance. Worse yet are the criminals who prey on unsuspecting drivers, selling them bad insurance that wont protect them if they are in a crash. The total cost to taxpayers? About $220 million a year. Unfortunately, the problem is rampant and criminals are surprisingly sophisticated. For example, one of them even set up a phony help desk to verify insurance when our clerks called to check whether the certificate was valid. A one-day sampling by our office found more than 16 percent of all insurance certificates were invalid or fraudulent. (see map.) This new joint effort is being called FAIR or Fighting Auto Insurance Rip-offs. For more information, please visit our website. We will keep you updated. See a Detroit news editorial here. A big thank you for all of the warm greetings and kind words of encouragement at the Michigan Republican Leadership Conference. Great to see so many friends at our welcome barbeque!

SOS SPOTLIGHT

Secretary of State offices helping with annual food drive

Non-perishable food donations can be dropped off at any Michigan Secretary of State branch office as part of the 23rd annual Michigan Harvest Gathering food drive. In the last 11 years, customers and staff have collected 180,000 pounds of food for Michigan families. For more info, please visit the Food Bank Council of Michigans website, www.fbcmich.org.

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Helping out with Habitat for Humanity to refurbish a home for a USMC veteran & his family
Secretary Johnson, joined by several volunteers from her staff, were part of an effort to refurbish a home for a veteran. Ruth cut and installed vinyl siding. Left, she talks with U.S. Army Captain James Van Thach, a veteran of the Iraq war, who visited the building site. With him is his service dog.

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Promoting ExpressSOS.com on a Pure Michigan day.

With Deborah Franks at the Capitol Life Celebration.

Enjoyed meeting Girl Scouts on Mackinac Island. Left, with John Roth and Anna Mouser at the Republican Leadership Conference. Right, celebrating a new Consumers Energy service center, which is bringing more than 200 jobs to Groveland Township, Michigan.

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