Auto insurance scams?

Unlike the almost uniformly macho and trigger-happy gumshoes on other shows of that day (and before), Rockford would just as soon duck a fight as swing his fists, and he rarely carried a gun (for which he did not have a permit; he kept it in a cookie jar in his kitchen). As Rockford preferred talking his way out of trouble over violence, he typically earned his rates in the pursuit of cold cases, family arguments, runaways, and low-budget insurance scams. In the pilot (and in Rockford's Yellow Pages ad), it was stressed that he "specialized in closed cases," so as to avoid conflict (and trouble) with the police. This point was mostly ignored in the later seasons, to allow Rockford to become involved in more dramatic cases like murder, kidnapping, and extortion.