New Jersey’s two U.S. Senators want the state Attorney General’s office to investigate possible fraud by insurance companies following Superstorm Sandy.

Senators Robert Menendez and Cory Booker asked Acting Attorney General John Jay Hoffman to investigate possible fraud by insurers looking to reduce flood damage payouts following the Oct. 2012 storm.

They cited an order in November by a federal judge in Long Island that insurers there produce additional information that could help reveal whether engineering contractors edited damage reports in ways that improperly minimized payouts to hundreds or even thousands of storm victims.

New York’s attorney general has opened a probe, and the senators say the “very similar circumstances” in New Jersey warrant an investigation there, too.

(AP)