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The Tiffany Kid  

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Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE presents videos so you can learn how insurance  fraud is perpetrated and what is necessary to deter or defeat insurance  fraud. This Video Blog of True Crime Stories of Insurance Fraud with the  names and places changed to protect the guilty are all based upon  investigations conducted by me and fictionalized to create a learning  environment for claims personnel, SIU investigators, insurers, police,  and lawyers better understand insurance fraud and weapons that can be  used to deter or defeat a fraudulent insurance claim.  

The insured grew up with his wealthy parents on the shores of San  Francisco Bay in Marin County. He wanted for nothing that money could  buy. He was tall, blond, blue-eyed and handsome. Debutantes pulled their  sister\\u2019s hair for the chance to dance with him. Life was good, but  dull.  The insured tried drugs. The results disappointed him. 

He was brilliant,  so college was no challenge. He felt he would die from the boredom.  Nothing challenged his intelligence.  He found the cure for his boredom one summer vacation from college. On a  dare, he surreptitiously entered the home of a neighbor. He removed a  single, solid brass and stained-glass dragonfly lamp made by Louis  Comfort Tiffany in the 1920\\u2019s. From this single event he found more  excitement, a greater \\u201chigh,\\u201d than he had ever had with drugs.  The flow of adrenalin as he entered, his neighbor\\u2019s dwelling was  delicious. He had found the excitement he wanted. He had finally found a  way to relieve the boredom and lack of challenge in his life. He did  not steal for profit. He stole for excitement. He did not need the lamp.  He could have bought many similar lamps with the money in his trust  fund.  

Like all addictions, burglary on a small scale continued. His burglaries  occurred in Marin County and in the small college town where he went to  school. He specialized in burglary limited to removing Tiffany lamps  and objects of art from their proper owners. He managed to amass a  collection of considerable value.  Burglary, however, was too easy.  

\\xa9 2022 \\u2013 Barry Zalma  Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE, now limits his practice to service as an  insurance consultant specializing in insurance coverage, insurance  claims handling, insurance bad faith and insurance fraud almost equally  for insurers and policyholders.  He practiced law in California for more than 44 years as an insurance  coverage and claims handling lawyer and more than 54 years in the  insurance business.  Subscribe to \\u201cZalma on Insurance\\u201d at https://zalmaoninsurance.locals.com/subscribe and \\u201cExcellence in Claims Handling\\u201d at https://barryzalma.substack.com/welcome.   You can contact Mr. Zalma at https://www.zalma.com, https://www.claimschool.com,  zalma@claimschool.com and zalma@zalma.com . Mr. Zalma is the first  recipient of the first annual Claims Magazine/ACE Legend Award.  You may find interesting the podcast \\u201cZalma On Insurance\\u201d at https://anchor.fm/barry-zalma;  you can follow Mr. Zalma on Twitter at; you should  see Barry Zalma\\u2019s videos on YouTube- https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCysiZklEtxZsSF9DfC0Expg; or videos on https://rumble.com/zalma. Go to the Insurance Claims Library \\u2013 https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims\\u2013library/ The last two issues of ZIFL are available at https://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/