Insurance agents and brokers serve as trusted advisors to their clients, ensuring that policyholders are adequately protected in the event of a loss. However, on some rare occasions, agents abuse their profession for personal gain. To date in 2021, there have already been dozens of cases of insurance fraud committed by agents. Whether it is embezzling money from clients, lying on insurance applications or stealing sensitive personal information for nefarious purposes, no crime was off-limits to these bad actors. In the above slideshow, we feature six fraud cases by insurance agents in the first half of 2021 and reported by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Related: |

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Heather A. Turner

Heather A. Turner is the managing editor of ALM's NU Property & Casualty Group. She can be reached at [email protected].

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