Archive for November, 2007
Four Friend Charged With Insurance Fraud
By James Tam on November 29th, 2007
According to the state Insurance Department Donna M. Kroft, 24, of 5 Thomas Ave., Batavia, was charged with insurance fraud and making fake business records. Kroft’s three friends were involved in the fraud they just wanted Kroft get insurance claim money. The investigation was done by the police and Allstate Insurance Co. when the damaged car found. The case was filed against the three named David N. Taplin, 30, of 45 Newport Drive, Holley, Orleans County; Theresa S. Nichols, 45, of 5 Thomas Ave., Batavia; and Joshua E. Nichols, 21, of 26 Main St., Oakfield, Genesee County. Insurance Department said they all committed in front of the police that they damaged and abandoned the car so that the owner (Donna M. Kroft) of the car could make an insurance claim. All the four got charged with up to three years in imprisonment.
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Man Killed His Wife For A Handsome Amount Of Insurance Claim
By James Tam on November 28th, 2007
A fifty six years old man killed his wife because she had a good amount of insurance, police found Nancy Kay King’s dead body face down in a shallow pit of water on the family dairy farm near Shepparton in the year 1991. The prosecutor Colin Hillman SC told the jury that King arranged for his wife to take out a $100,000 life insurance policy a two weeks before her death, Mr. Hillman also disclosed a personal matter that the couple was not happy with each other at all and their marriage was not successful, Mrs. King finally decided to get divorce from her husband in the same week she died. Mr. Hillman said that he had strong evidence against Graeme King, King himself revealed the secret to a dancer at a Shepparton strip club that he detested his wife Nancy Kay King and he killed her. But Mr. King’s lawyer said the case against his client had developed for more than 16 years through gossip, rumour and innuendo into what was a tragic conspiracy.
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Workers Prefer Private Health Insurance to Get Their Family Covered
By James Tam on November 27th, 2007
When a company offers health insurance to its employees, they are happy to take it but now some recruits who work in small companies are getting into private health insurance because their spouse and children will be covered under this type of insurance and it will be less cheap than the company’s insurance plan. A survey done by the Kaiser Family Foundation and the Health Research and Educational Trust, and we came to know that thirty seven percent workers who work in a company with three to 199 employees can expect to pay 50 percent or more of the premium to get their family covered, compared with just 5 percent of employees at larger companies. Gary Claxton, a vice president at the Kaiser Family Foundation said “It’s hard to gauge how many people are opting out of employer-sponsored coverage, but the numbers could increase if employees face further cost increases and are willing to take less generous insurance coverage.”
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You Can Get Car Insurance Quotation Marks Online
By James Tam on November 26th, 2007
Now you can get car insurance quotation marks over the internet, this is very comfortable way because you just have to sit in front of your pc or laptop and get any information you want to. Just keep yourself up to date and be familiar with state limits and requirements. If you are required fewer limits then you will be able to save money but remember high limits will provide you a better protection. Double check to get correct underwriting information and always be conscious of your losses. Whether the company is reputed or not, you can check from AM Best, this is the company which keeps an eye on financial responsibility of insurance companies.
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New Cars Are Considered To Be Safe
By James Tam on November 25th, 2007
According to the insurance industry new cars are considered to be safe, Ford Motor Co. and Honda Motor Co. had the most vehicles on the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s annual list of the safest cars for the 2008 model year. Cars and trucks with electronic stability control, required by the institute. Adrian Lund, the institute’s president said “Vehicles should be designed to provide good occupant protection when crashes occur, but now with ESC we have the possibility of preventing many crashes altogether.” Honda and its Acura unit had seven vehicles on the list: the Honda Accord, Odyssey, Pilot, CR-V and Element, and the Acura MDX and RDX SUVs.
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