The Tiffany Kid

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Barry Zalma, Esq., CFE presents videos so you can learn how insurance fraud is perpetrated and what is necessary to deter or defeat insurance fraud. This Video Blog of True Crime Stories of Insurance Fraud with the names and places changed to protect the guilty are all based upon investigations conducted by me and fictionalized to create a learning environment for claims personnel, SIU investigators, insurers, police, and lawyers better understand insurance fraud and weapons that can be used to deter or defeat a fraudulent insurance claim.

The insured grew up with his wealthy parents on the shores of San Francisco Bay in Marin County. He wanted for nothing that money could buy. He was tall, blond, blue-eyed and handsome. Debutantes pulled their sister’s hair for the chance to dance with him. Life was good, but dull.

The insured tried drugs. The results disappointed him. He was brilliant, so college was no challenge. He felt he would die from the boredom. Nothing challenged his intelligence.

He found the cure for his boredom one summer vacation from college. On a dare, he surreptitiously entered the home of a neighbor. He removed a single, solid brass and stained-glass dragonfly lamp made by Louis Comfort Tiffany in the 1920’s. From this single event he found more excitement, a greater “high,” than he had ever had with drugs.

Burglary, however, was too easy.

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He practiced law in California for more than 44 years as an insurance coverage and claims handling lawyer and more than 54 years in the insurance business.

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