Fraud of the Week

September 5, 2016

Auto Fraud—Maryland

Amount: $1,000 to $10,000

 

A Maryland woman has been sentenced to ninety days of home detention and two years of probation for filing a false insurance claim that she was the driver of the vehicle, a Chevrolet Malibu, at the time of an incident. Her husband was sentenced to eight years in prison for second-degree assault and failure to stop at the scene of an accident involving injury for hitting a man in a parking lot and then leaving the scene. Surveillance videos showed the couple pulling into the parking lot, the female going into a store, the victim pulling into the parking lot, getting out of his car, and knocking on the window of the Malibu. The male then backed up the Malibu, hitting a dump truck, pulled forward to hit the victim's vehicle, and then backed up again and drove forward to pin the victim between his own vehicle and the Malibu. The female returned to the vehicle and the two left the scene of the crime. The dump truck driver followed the Malibu until the police could pull it over. The victim suffered injuries that required surgery to mend. Two days later, the female filed an insurance claim saying that she was driving the vehicle at the time of the collision. When the victim filed his own insurance claim, the insurance company realized the initial claim was fraudulent.

 

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