Zalma's Insurance Fraud Letter - December 15, 2022
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ZIFL Volume 26 Number 24
\\nMerry Christmas, Happy Hanukah & May The Winter Solstice be Peaceful & Mild
\\nRead the full Newsletter http://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ZIFL-12-15-2022-1.pdf.
\\nA Christmas Fable of Fraud
\\nZIFL Publishes This Story At Christmas Time Every Year. I Hope You Like It Again. The story that follows is fiction based, in part, on a true case worked on by me. Any similarity to real people is unintentional. It is meant only to educate fraud professionals about how some unscrupulous people use the crime of insurance fraud for fun and profit during the Christmas season. Raymond Alexander had no religion. He cared only for himself and the money he could take from good-hearted people. Raymond loved the Christmas season. The marks were in such a kind and giving mood it wasn\\u2019t even work to take their money.
\\nEnglish Solicitor Jailed For 12 Years After Private Prosecution for Fraud Stephen Jones, 63, senior partner at London firm Jirehouse Partners, pleaded guilty at Southwark Crown Court to two counts of fraud by abuse of his position of trust as a solicitor in relation to money intended to be used by his clients to buy a Scottish castle. Read the full ZIFL at http://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ZIFL-12-15-2022-1.pdf
\\nEditorial \\u2013 Anti-Fraud Resolutions In 2009 ZIFL posted an editorial with New Year\\u2019s Resolutions for every person involved in the business of insurance. I repeat it again, with some modification, in this issue and add some thoughts for 2023. Read the full Newsletter at http://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ZIFL-12-15-2022-1.pdf
\\nHow to Defeat Insurance Fraud An Article I Wrote for the CPCU Society\\u2019s \\u201cInsights\\u201d Magazine The preponderance of attempted insurance fraud is staggering and costly. But perhaps even more startling, and certainly more avoidable, is the often-muted response to such crime. Read the full story at http://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/CPCUSociety_INSIGHTS_Winter2022_Insurance_Fraud.pdf
\\nGood News from The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud My client duped me, a banker desperately contended in court after helping disbarred personal-injury attorney Alex Murdaugh steal money from insurance settlements of clients in South Carolina.
\\nRussell Laffitte was convicted anyway. Read the full Newsletter http://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/ZIFL-12-15-2022-1.pdf. Florida Session Agenda Calls for Claims Process Changes, More Oversight of Insurers.
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