Illinois Farmers Insurance Company has filed a five-count complaint against two Chicago area contractors -- ACME Home General Contractors, Inc., and Evergreen Home Restoration, Inc. -- and against several individuals alleging insurance fraud and conspiracy to the tune of $650,000.
According to a release from the company, Farmers initiated an investigation in late 2008 after noticing a pattern of fraudulent hail claims. In the civil complaint, Farmers alleges that the named defendants were causing hail-like damage to insured homes and then filing false insurance claims.
The Illinois criminal code states that a person commits insurance fraud when "he or she knowingly obtains, attempts to obtain, or causes to be obtained, by deception, control over the property of an insurance company or self-insured entity by the making of a false claim or by causing a false claim to be made on any policy of insurance issued by an insurance company or by the making of a false claim to a self-insured entity, intending to deprive an insurance company or self-insured entity permanently of the use and benefit of that property."
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