In a press conference today, March 5, 2010, that was designed to draw attention to the prevalence of Personal Injury Protection (“PIP”) fraud in Florida, Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink joined the Tampa Police Department and Allstate Insurance Company to report on increased efforts to combat PIP-related scams.

According to CFO Sink’s Division of Insurance Fraud, PIP is the most reported type of insurance fraud in Florida, accounting for 30 percent of all referrals received by that department from 2008 to 2009.