Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter – March 15, 2025

Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter – March 15, 2025

ZIFL Volume 29, Issue 6

The Ides of March Produces the Newest Issue of Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter

The Source for the Insurance Fraud Professional

Posted on March 17, 2025 by Barry Zalma

Post 5019

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Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter (ZIFL) continues its 29th year of publication dedicated to those involved in reducing the effect of insurance fraud. ZIFL is published 24 times a year by ClaimSchool and is written by Barry Zalma. It is provided FREE to anyone who visits the site at https://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/ You can read the full issue of the March 15, 2025 issue at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

This issue contains the following articles about insurance fraud:


Mold Fraud Case Defeated

I received the following in an email from Jennifer Herrick who used my Mold Books to help defeat what they believed were fraudulent mold claims. I felt it worth while to pass it on. I simply copied her e-mail.

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

American Insurers Need to Adopt and Implement Excellence in Claims Handling

Attempts to Obtain a Quarterly Profit Insurers Lose Multi-Year Profits

Insurers have, over the last three decades, decimated their professional claims staffs. Experienced claims adjusters were fired and replaced with young, untrained, unprepared people. A virtual clerk replaced the old professional claims handler. Software programs took over from the seasoned interviewer to analyze the right to claims proceeds. Hands-on human skill, empathy and judgment were removed from insurers contact with those to whom they promised to provide indemnity fairly, promptly and in good faith. Money was saved from the insurer’s expense column by paying lower salaries. Within three months of firing the experienced claims people gross profit increased for a quarter of a year or two quarters.

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf


Heath Insurance Fraud Convictions

Arkansas Reports 6 Medicaid Fraud Convictions and 1 Civil Settlement

On March 11, 2025, Trey Franks, 28, of Jacksonville pleaded guilty to Abuse of an Endangered or Impaired Person (Exploitation), a Class ‘C’ Felony, and was sentenced to a five-year term of probation, and ordered to pay a $250 fine, court costs, and restitution in the amount of $867.89. Franks used an impaired person’s debit card to pay his credit card bills.

Read the full article, reports of dozens of convictions, and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

MORE MCCLENNY MOSELEY & ASSOCIATES ISSUES

This is ZIFL’s forty-third installment of the saga of McClenny, Moseley & Associates and its problems with the federal courts in the State of Louisiana and what appears to be an effort to profit from what some Magistrate and District judges indicate may be criminal conduct to profit from insurance claims relating to hurricane damage to the public of the state of Louisiana.

March 25, 2025? – $3 Million MMA Investor Sued with Allegations of Fraudulent Estimates

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

The Compact Book of Adjusting Liability Claims Fourth Edition

A Handbook for the Liability Claims Adjuster

The insurance adjuster is seldom, if ever, mentioned in an insurance policy. The strict wording of third party liability policies set the obligation to prove a claim that entitles the insured to defense or indemnity of a claim against the insured by an injured third party.

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf


CONVICTIONS OF OTHER THAN HEALTH INSURANCE FRAUD

40 Fraudulent Insurance Policies Worth $20 Million

Maureen Wilson, of Owings Mills, Maryland was convicted by a federal jury for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, and related charges for wire fraud, money laundering and filing false tax returns.

According to court documents, Wilson conspired with her husband James Wilson to defraud insurance companies by obtaining over 40 life insurance policies for applicants by misrepresenting their health, wealth and existing life insurance coverage. The total death benefits from these policies exceeded $20 million.

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

Deterring Insurance Fraud

Insurance fraud continually takes more money each year than it did the last from the insurance buying public. There is no certain number. No one knows the amount that is taken by insurance fraud because most attempts at insurance fraud succeed.

A New Book on Insurance Fraud and How the DOJ Deters and Defeats Insurance Fraud.

The book is now available as a Kindle book, a paperback and hardcover

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf


BARRY ZALMA

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He publishes daily articles at https://zalma.substack.com, Go to the Insurance Claims Library – https://zalma.com/blog/insurance-claims-library/ to consider more than 50 volumes written by Barry Zalma on insurance and insurance claims handling.

Read the full article and the full 22 pages of the issue ZIFL at https://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/ZIFL-03-15-2025.pdf

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