Four Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud

 
When you choose to get involved in auto insurance fraud, you are not just hurting yourself – you are hurting everyone who has auto insurance with the company that you are defrauding. This is the most important thing that a criminal has to remember. Quite often they think of it as though they are ripping off an auto insurance company and that they can afford it so what is the big deal? However, that auto insurance company pays those quotes and then to keep themselves solvent they increase the rates for everyone in your area because the risk factors go up for a specific area every time there is a claim there.
 
That is why so many people are quick to turn in those that are breaking the auto insurance laws as they know that they will have to pay the difference when these fraudulent claims are filed. The North Carolina Insurance Commissioner has announced the arrest of four people in conjunction with an auto insurance scheme that netted them more than $9,000. Derrick Vontrell Lewis, Tanish Learnell Williams, Angela Harris Williams, and Sharon Williams Davis, were all arrested in conjunction with the scheme. They were charged with various felony counts ranging from auto insurance fraud and conspiracy to obtaining property by false pretense.
 
Because of the claims that the auto insurance companies paid out they were given a total pay out of $9,328.52. The Department of Insurance has law enforcement officers who investigate claims of auto insurance fraud. They say that an estimated ten cents of every dollar in auto insurance premiums paid goes to fraud, so if they can stop these fraudulent claims then they can cut premiums.





 

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