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Georgia Insurance Agent Arrested For Pocketing $2K in Client Premiums

A Georgia insurance agent has been arrested on seven counts of insurance fraud and three counts of forgery in the first-degree for taking insurance premiums from her clients and issuing them fraudulent payment receipts, according to a statement from Georgia …

Michigan Orders Former Agent to Stop Selling Fake Auto Insurance Certificates

The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) has ordered a Farmington man to stop selling fraudulent automobile insurance certificates through his company, SBS Agency. DIFS issued cease and desist order to Terrell Lee Smith also known as “Sam.” …

Former Utah Agent pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud

Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling Insurance.” Charges against Kelling were filed by …

Montana Agent Pleads Guilty To Stealing Premiums

An insurance agent from Butte, Mont. who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7,200 of his client’s premiums has been given a three-year deferred sentence and ordered to pay restitution. State Insurance Commissioner Monica Lindeen says Jeremy Hoscheid pleaded guilty …

Florida Alleges $2.7 Million Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Florida regulators have announced the arrest of a North Carolina man who allegedly collected more than $2.7 million in workers’ compensation premiums from a company by providing a fake policy. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater said that Delmas Fuller, …