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In some areas that maneuver is a strategy to collect an insurance payout. If the car had many passengers (who would all get soft tissue injuries) this might have been a "swoop and squat."

> someone jumped into my lane and slammed their breaks on for who knows why

Insurance fraud, possibly. Depending on jurisdiction if you rear-end someone you could automatically be 100% at fault (assuming the fraud is not discovered/proven)

Huh didn't even consider that. Makes sense now.

*brake