The insurers have paid for 35 police officers in the City of London force alone to battle fake insurance claims and have had a string of prosecution successes.
The prosecution's success, however, is far from assured.
Despite the prosecution's success in limiting the scope of Dr. Fyfe's testimony, the former police lieutenant, managed to convey his opinion that the officers had followed police procedure and had adhered to their primary mission: "To protect life".
But others feel that sympathy for the young woman's age and raw demeanor -- and also the defense's underestimation of the jury's empathy for her -- may be key to the prosecution's success.
For all of the prosecution's successes today, the two counts of which Mr. Milan was acquitted were among the most serious in terms of potential penalties, and also the most thoroughly documented.
Already, Mr. Scruggs's lawyers are privately suggesting he was singled out for prosecution because of his success suing big companies, while saying that with pro-business Republicans running the White House, the Justice Department and the local federal prosecutor's office, trial lawyers like Mr. Scruggs are tempting targets.
The successful prosecution of Mahdi will, however, be a boost to the ICC, which has been heavily criticised for its expense and patchy success in prosecution.
While federal officials can point to some successes — prosecutions, seizures of money and tightened money-laundering regulations in foreign countries — the results have often been frustrating, the cables show.
"Aggrieved governments have had little success in the prosecution of either accused smugglers or dealers, and they have too little evidence to win most cases against large institutions for repatriation of objects believed stolen," she wrote.
But some experts said the very success of the prosecution raised doubts about the administration's insistence that the terrorism threat cannot be handled in the civilian justice system.
