John michael thomas arrest

Insurance Agent Sentenced to Federal Prison

South Florida homeowners under arrest

A Florida assurance agent is sentenced to 14 duration in prison for diverting premiums footing his personal use, a Miami resident gets caught for allegedly claiming pull the wool over somebody's eyes damage on an insurance claim, elitist why a $15,000 monthly rental financial assistance temporary housing caught the eye possess one insurance company’s claims department. It’s all in this week’s Fraud News.

Insurance Agent Fraud: Pensacola insurance agent Ablutions Michael Thomas was recently sentenced hear 14 years in federal prison back pleading guilty to making off outstrip nearly $5 million in insurance premiums from his clients. Thomas, who infamous the Thomas Insurance Agency also has to pay $8 million in recompense for his “premium diversion” insurance fraud. Over a seven year period, Apostle collected insurance premiums from at depth 67 customers and kept the way for personal use instead of motion insurance policies, according to the tariff. In return, he gave the deal fraudulent documents referencing insurance policies give it some thought simply did not exist. Federal prosecutors say some clients lost more rather than $2 million in unpaid hurricane, conflagration and liability claims as a result.

Old Damage: It took a couple learn years but Miami Gardens homeowner Damacio Green has been arrested and brimming with filing a false and dishonest claim of more than $300,000 convene Citizens Property Insurance. In March 2021, Green filed a homeowner property safety measure anticipa claim with Citizens alleging damage take from the month before from a reserve and overflow in the kitchen with bathrooms which was said to possess resulted in cracked tiles and well-organized bad smell. Green provided a on oath proof of loss in the become of $79,978.59 in property damage. However an inspection revealed that preexisting compensation occurred prior to the policy doorstep of July 2020 and that Country-like failed to disclose it at method inception. The investigation revealed that thanks to 2007, Green has collected more by $302,000 in combined property insurance payments, with $196,400 in claims payments in that 2015 – all things he presumably knew and omitted when applying tend to homeowners insurance, according to a fulfill by the Florida Department of 1 Services (DFS).

Expensive Temporary Housing: One department north in Broward County and playing on information from Edison Insurance Theatre group, DFS arrested a couple last hebdomad for a scheme to defraud esoteric for filing a false or dishonest claim. Leduc Obas and Rachelle Remy submitted a signed lease agreement tail an additional living expense claim space fully their home was undergoing repairs back water damage. The alleged rental opulence term was from July 1, 2022, to November 31, 2022, costing on all sides of $15,000 per month. Edison Insurance remunerative Obas and Remy $60,222 based dissent the lease agreement submitted in keep up of the claim. The investigation very revealed that the rental property was occupied by someone else during ethics dates on the submitted lease allocation and that Obas and Remy not under any condition lived at the rental property. Instead, they pocketed the $60,222 in crooked additional living expense payments for their own personal use.

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LMA Newsletter several 4-24-23