A man has claimed that his fiance’s cheeseburger from a famous brand had a bite missing when they unwrapped the sandwich. The couple went to the drive-through and when they came home, found the chunk missing. The fiancé though he was playing a practical joke on her, upon which he...
A woman recently filed a motor claim after she had an accident. She struck a guardrail while driving along with her pet parrot. She blamed the parrot and told the police the bird had been travelling with her. The bird allegedly started pecking at the lid of her coffee, which...
A cashier filed for a stress claim after being involved in a hold-up. It seems a man walked into the fuel station where the cashier worked and asked for all the money in the cash register. On finding that the earnings were too low, he tied up the store cashier...
A 50-year-old man was arraigned on two felony charges of insurance fraud and grand theft. He allegedly pocketed a client's premium payment instead of forwarding the payment to the insurer and compounded his crime by issuing a bogus insurance certificate. In January 2014, he received a USD1500 premium payment on...
Employees at an insurance company have always joked about a customer running into the building, never thinking that would happen. One customer made them rethink their humour when he was coming to the branch to make a payment and ended up driving straight through the office building. They think that...
In an operation the FBI called "theft and greed on a large scale," a former insurance broker has pleaded guilty to bilking nearly 800 trucking companies out of USD3.7 million for phony cargo insurance. According to the authorities, the man operated an insurance brokerage firm and began offering cargo insurance...
A homebuilder has been sentenced to two years in prison for insurance fraud over false reports of more than USD250,000 in materials stolen. Federal prosecutors announced the penalty for the accused, who pleaded guilty to wire fraud last year. The 56-year-old was also ordered to pay USD252,000 in restitution to...
A man sued an international pizza chain over a case of “extremely hard croutons” which reportedly broke his partial denture when he bit into it. His lawyer initiated discussions with the insurance company, but a suit was filed when the negotiations stalled. The law suit claims the crouton caused personal...
A businessman reported dead two years ago was arrested on alleged fraud charges after his life insurance companies filed a lawsuit alleging he was alive and they shouldn't be making payments. Details of the charges against the 62-year-old are unclear. But the recent arrest ends two years of speculation about...
A former insurance agent, accused of stealing the identities of school district employees, has been sentenced to three years and four months in state prison. The 51-year-old, pleaded guilty to forgery, identity theft and aggravated white collar crime enhancement for losses of more than USD100,000, according to a news release....
