New Fiction About Insurance FraudRead the full article at https://lnkd.in/gtdtZq9V and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4450 posts.The Defeat of a Fake $10 Million Jewelry Robbery Insurance ClaimBarry Zalma, Esq., CFE, a Certified Fraud Examiner and a retired insurance coverage lawyer and active insurance claims, insurance coverage and insurance fraud expert has just published a fictionalized novella about how a thorough investigation defeated an attempted $10 million insurance fraud...

Professional Insurance AdjustingRead the full article at https://lnkd.in/gpuMrasz and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/gQ2-4VB3 and at https://lnkd.in/gmVde3im and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts.At the turn of the century, insurers, in a search for profit, decimated their professional claims staff. They laid off experienced personnel and replaced them with young, untrained and unprepared people.A virtual clerk replaced the old professional claims handler. Process and...

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The Sweet Little Old Lady & FraudInsurance Fraud is an Equal Opportunity CrimeRead the full article at https://lnkd.in/grX__7Rq and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/ggYAizEh and at https://lnkd.in/gV9ZcRZH and https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts.The Insured was 82 years old and bored. She was born shortly after the turn of the century to a wealthy family of Connecticut merchants. She had been a debutante. She lived most of her life in luxury. Now, at 82, she was a widow...

Fire! Why Arson-for-Profit is Dangerous Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gu7GS9cr and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/gPEKpb7D and at https://lnkd.in/gpRbp_u4 and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. The crime of arson is violent. Not only is property damaged, people die. Most arson fires are set for spite, anger, vengeance or spousal abuse. Approximately 25 per cent are set to defraud insurers. Fires set to defraud an insurer are called, by arson investigators,...

This One Isn’t Fiction Because No One Would Believe It Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gtfVRNbn and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/g28Tbd4N and at https://lnkd.in/gP9ThQbN and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. On February 20, 1997 United States District Judge J. Spencer Letts found a lawyer and others had committed fraud and purchased a policy of Marine Insurance for the sole purpose of sinking a boat. Here are parts of what Judge Letts concluded: The...

Am I In Trouble? Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gdifzsrm and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/g6U74iVp and at https://lnkd.in/gxKn59gG and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts.  Bankruptcy Fraud Defeats Legitimate Insurance ClaimAm I In Trouble? Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gdifzsrm and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/g6U74iVp and at https://lnkd.in/gxKn59gG and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Insurance fraud, like any...

I Don’t Need Your Stinkin’ License! Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gi3WNR7z and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/gxkzvNE5 and at https://lnkd.in/gF2MRUks and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Yuri Gasparov was 19 years old when he entered the United States from the old Soviet Republic of Georgia. When the Soviet Union fell, he emigrated to the U.S. Gasparov arrived at Los Angeles International Airport on an immigrant’s Visa. The American...

Someone Stole My Rolls RoyceRead the full article at https://lnkd.in/g5Sp3sxm and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/gaxZy-YY and at https://lnkd.in/gGr5BKfn and at https://zalam.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Investing in California real estate in the 1980’s was fun. Whatever you bought you could sell for more. The doctrine: “there is always a greater fool than I,” worked.Li Chen Hua immigrated to California from Hong Kong in 1981. He did it legally, winning a...

ZALMA'S INSURANCE FRAUD LETTER MAY 15, 2022Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/g5SJDiDH and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter – May 15, 2022Posted on May 16, 2022 by Barry ZalmaVolume 26, Issue 10See the full video at https://lnkd.in/gfSwq8Zp and at https://lnkd.in/gXDJXVqWProsecution Proper for Accident in Missouri and Fraud in KansasCrossing a State Line to Present a Fraudulent Claim Doesn’t WorkTwo courts found...

Nobody’s Been Hurt Why Some People Believe Insurance Fraud is no Criminal Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gfSPXXbF and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/g_4a_TeB and at https://lnkd.in/gJ86eHEu and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Dr. Scrooge was eighty-five-years old. He lived with his daughter and son-in-law in a remodeled tract home outside of Portland, Oregon.T There was no question that Dr. Scrooge had a heart condition. It was, however, a condition...

Levon Sogomonian v. Imperial & Lloyd’s   Arson-for-Profit Fails Because of Rescission Read the full article at https://lnkd.in/gkAHmaXr and see the full video at https://lnkd.in/gbiYKK6e and at https://lnkd.in/giBUszHP and at https://zalma.com/blog plus more than 4200 posts. Since I began writing these stories in 1990 I have changed the names of the parties to protect the guilty. This is an exception. In 1981, Levon Sogomonian, a person who claimed to be a refugee from Soviet...