Help

BI’s Article search uses Boolean search capabilities. If you are not familiar with these principles, here are some quick tips.

To search specifically for more than one word, put the search term in quotation marks. For example, “workers compensation”. This will limit your search to that combination of words.

To search for a combination of terms, use quotations and the & symbol. For example, “hurricane” & “loss”.

Login Register Subscribe

Finger lickin’ not so good insurance fraud

Reprints
Stockton

Three people in Stockton, California, were sentenced this week for insurance fraud and arson for cooking up an elaborate scheme to collect insurance money on fires they intentionally set by leaving chicken to fry on a stove. Twice. 

Tyler Chen, Kim Chen and Ha Nguyen pleaded guilty to their crimes and were given sentences between one and 13 years for their roles in the scheme that included adding home furnishings — washer, dryer, couch — found by a roadside to the homes they had set fire to in order to collect more insurance money, ABC 10 in Stockton reported on Wednesday.

The investigation was launched when an adjustor started seeing similarities in the claims filed by the fraudsters. The three were also linked to insurance claims that involved water damage to property in warehouses that were damaged in fires.

 

 

 

Read Next

  • Frown: Emoji-related lawsuits double in Florida

    Recent statistics gathered by the Fox News affiliate in Jacksonville, Florida, found that the number of reported legal cases in the sunshine state involving emojis or emoticons increased from 33 in 2017 to 53 in 2018 and 99 in 2019.