Jenni Bergal Biographical Sketch

Jenni Bergal is a senior writer for the South Florida Sun-Sentinel who covers white-collar crime for the business section and also works on investigative projects. Previously, she was an investigative reporter on the projects team and co-authored numerous series involving health care, including one that revealed that dozens of people had died following plastic surgery across Florida and another that exposed an underworld of traffic accident stagers, corrupt chiropractors and pain clinic owners, ambulance-chasing lawyers and medical testing brokers, who banded together to bilk auto insurance companies.

Bergal has won dozens of state and national awards, including the Worth Bingham Prize for Distinguished Reporting (twice), the Gerald Loeb Award for Distinguished Business and Financial Journalism, and the National Press Club Consumer Journalism Award (twice). She has been a Pulitzer Prize finalist twice, once in 1996 for beat reporting and again in 1999 for investigative reporting.