[Decolliber]

About ten years ago there was a duo, Mr and Mrs Bissel (aka, "the flying Bissels"), who repeatedly scammed Waldbaums supermarkets on Long Island, with the same strategy. One of them would fall down in the store and claim to be injured. The store manager would use his/her discretionary authority to pay them $1000 to go away and not take legal action. Waldbaums would them make a claim on their insurance policy, and thats how the scam unravelled. Some of these claims went to the same insurance company investigator, who noticed the pattern. As they were leaving court after being sentenced, once of them "fell down" on the court steps and threatened to sue the city ( I think it was Hempstead or Massapequa).
I remember reading about it in LI Newsday.