As someone who works for a property/casualty insurance company and deals with suspected staged losses semi-regularly, I love dashcams.
Video footage is a royal PITA to get entered into evidence in a New York Court, procedure-wise. But its really fun to bring in the insured for an Examination Under Oath (“EUO”) to identify and describe the video. Then I bring in the claimants (people in the other car or pedestrian) and show it to them. It helps that in New York, insurance companies have an unlimited right by both law and contract to bring in insureds/claimants for an EUO
The 3 times I had this sort of thing, ended up with the lawyers for the claimants dropping their clients out of fear of promoting fraud.
BTW there is a very good reason police aren’t interested. Unless they personally observed an accident, anything they note in a report besides ID and insurance information is inadmissible in Court as hearsay.
