A man purchased a vehicle insurance policy from an agent and filed for a claim five days later. He said the accident occurred about an hour after he purchased the insurance policy. The agent then contacted the insurer of the other party involved in the accident and he said the...
A man was charged and accused of providing evidence to prove the death of his brother in order to claim an insurance amount. The man allegedly took out the insurance policy in his brother’s name after his death and tried to claim for it. The private investigators hired by the...
An insured tour boat had quite surprisingly churned out 22 injury claims which cause the insurance company to take a closer look at the data. Most of the claimants had suffered back injuries after taking a pounding in the fast boat. So the adjuster decided to see what was happening...
A woman was telling the workers in her organisation that the area she was walking in should have cones placed to alert others lest they should slip and fall. Unfortunately while she was instructing the workers, she slipped and her feet went flying out from under her. The claim was...
An 82-year-old was led to believe that she would receive nothing if she cancelled her life insurance policy by her bank. She had been paying into her plan for more than a decade and was concerned about the increasing costs. But when she debated on closing the policy, her bank...
An interior designer student claimed she had lost many of her personal gadgets and accessories during a university trip. She concocted the scam after submitting a legitimate claim for her mobile phone on the university travel insurance policy. She then used a fellow student’s details for a bogus claim and...
A man paid his friend a large sum of money to don a Halloween mask and “attack” him on the job so that he could collect workers’ compensation and disability insurance. The bizarre plot crumbled when the police found fingerprints off a fake plastic pumpkin the “attacker” left behind and...
A woman who worked for a farm service agency has been arrested on fraud charges for a crop insurance scheme that she hatched and propogated using false documents. She netted more than USD100000 from the scheme until she was found to be guilty. The case was filed and she is...
More than two weeks after being charged with arson, a couple is facing an additional charge of insurance fraud. They were first arrested on charges of first-degree arson of their pizzeria and possession of tools for the commission of a crime. Fire investigators said the motive for the arson may...
A former podiatrist was charged with seven felony counts of insurance fraud for allegedly billing for several patients for medical services that were never performed. She is accused of submitting fraudulent billing for services not rendered on six patients from 2015 to 2017. She then moved to another state and...
