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Research and Markets: What Consumers Want: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Pensions in France 2010
January 18th, 2011
Research and Markets: What Consumers Want: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Pensions in France 2010
DUBLIN–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/e4996f/what_consumers_wan) has announced the addition of the “What Consumers Want: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Pensions in France 2010″ report to their offering. This slide deck provides direct answers to the important questions regarding consumers behaviour towards …
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Research and Markets: What Consumers Want: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Pensions in France 2010
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “What Consumers Want: General Insurance, Life Insurance and Pensions in France 2010″ report to their offering.
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Life Insurance Quotes: Five Tips for the Cheapest Rates
One of the best ways to protect a family’s financial future is to compare life insurance quotes and choose an appropriate provider. The trick is to find the most compatible coverage for the family’s specific situation at the most affordable price.
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The eight Shameless Insurance Scams of 2010
December 29th, 2010
Fueled by greed, they killed co-workers and family members. Or faked their own deaths. Or fleeced the blind. One perpetrator even ate glass in an attempt to stuff her pockets with cash.
Thousands of court cases in 2010 involved insurance fraud. Here’s a look at InsuranceQuotes.com’s eight Shameless Insurance Scams of 2010.
Hardly a father figure
Joel Zellmer liked dating women with small children. Problem is, those children always wound up seriously injured — or in one case dead — when left alone with Zellmer. Authorities say the Seattle-area man killed his 3-year-old stepdaughter in 2003 for $ 200,000 in life insurance money.
The case originally was ruled an accident until Zellmer’s wife and her attorney presented new evidence to authorities. At trial, prosecutors presented evidence suggesting that Zellmer caused injuries to children of previous wives and girlfriends who’d been in his care, including broken legs, burned hands and a near drowning.
On June 18, 2010, Zellmer was sentenced to 50 years in prison for his stepdaughter’s death.
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| Joel Zellmer was sentenced to 50 years in prison for the death of his 3-year-old stepdaughter in a life insurance scheme. |
She likes her oatmeal crunchy
From 1997 to 2005, Mary Evano sprinkled glass shavings in her meals at restaurants in Massachusetts, Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C., as part of an insurance scheme.
She and her husband, Ronald Evano, falsely claimed that various hotels, restaurants and supermarkets had served them food containing glass particles. Although in some instances the Evanos may have ingested glass particles, they did not originate in food served by the restaurants, hotels and grocery stores, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston.
Mary and Ronald Evano filed bogus insurance claims under different identities, using fake IDs and Social Security numbers. Their total take: More than $ 200,000. Mary Evano also incurred more than $ 100,000 in medical bills from real injuries from eating the glass.
Ronald Evano pleaded guilty in 2007 and is serving a five-year sentence. Mary Evano remained a fugitive until she was arrested in early 2010. On Dec. 22, 2010, she was sentenced to four years in prison and ordered to pay $ 340,000 in restitution.
Insurance inferno
James Kurtenbach owed $ 40,000 in back taxes, and he was $ 16,000 in arrears on a second home he owned in Poway, Calif. So on Oct. 31, 2008, Kurtenbach, a San Diego-area gas station owner, sent an employee to torch his vacant $ 2.5 million home in Ramona, Calif., so he could collect homeowner’s insurance money.
There was one not-so-small problem: The employee, 24-year-old Joseph Nesheiwat, was killed in the fire. Kurtenbach was charged with second-degree murder, arson and insurance fraud.
In court, Nesheiwat’s brother, John, testified that Kurtenbach recruited John and Joseph to start the blaze, then ordered them to keep quiet about it. Kurtenbach’s attorney, Paul Pfingst, argued that Joseph Nesheiwat started the fire on his own and that Kurtenbach was not in financial ruin. On Oct. 12, 2010, jurors convicted Kurtenbach of arson, conspiracy and insurance fraud. On Dec. 21, 2010, he was sentenced to 15 years and eight months in prison.
College student may learn lesson behind bars
Chase Boruch, a University of Wisconsin student and former Iraq War veteran, was arrested Dec. 1, 2010, for allegedly murdering his 63-year-old mother. The motive? $ 800,000 worth of life insurance.
According to the Wisconsin Rapids Tribune, Boruch told investigators that he and his mother, Sally Pergolski, left Pergolski’s home about 4 a.m. June 6 to go fishing. Boruch says Pergolski lost control of the truck, crashed down an embankment and into a lake. He says his mother hit her head and was unresponsive as he tried to pull her from the truck. The son says he then pulled his mother to shore, tried to perform CPR and called 911.
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| Chase Boruch is charged with murdering his mother for $ 800,000 in life insurance money. |
However, an autopsy showed Pergolski suffered a severe brain injury before the truck went into the lake. Investigators also discovered that Boruch took out several life insurance policies on his mother about a month beforehand. On Dec. 1, 2010, Boruch was arrested, charged with first-degree murder and held on $ 2 million bond. On Dec. 20, 2010, Boruch fired his two attorneys. A preliminary hearing in Boruch’s case has been scheduled for early 2011.
Thou shalt not kill — unless it’s for $ 1 million
When Baltimore pastor Kevin Pushia befriended Lemuel Wallace in early 2009, Wallace thought his luck had finally changed. Wallace was developmentally disabled and blind. He lived in a group home where Pushia worked and wanted to be transferred to another home with residents who were closer to his age. Pushia told Wallace he could work out the switch and even set up Wallace’s move to the new digs.
But Wallace never made it. On Feb. 4, 2009, police found Wallace face down in a nearby park bathroom with a gunshot wound to the back of his head. Turns out, Pushia and another man, James Clea, paid $ 50,000 to Clea’s brother, Kareem Clea, to kill Wallace, authorities say. The Cleas are expected to go to trial in 2011.
Why all the fuss over a blind man?
Pushia eventually admitted that he took out seven life insurance policies on Wallace worth $ 1.4 million. He needed Wallace to be dead to collect the cash.
The scheme began unraveling when an investigator from Globe Life Insurance Co. called police to make sure the benefactor was not a suspect in Wallace’s murder. Police immediately searched Pushia’s home and found the life insurance policies and Pushia’s schedule. An entry on the day Wallace was killed read, “L.W. project completed,” according to the Baltimore Sun.
On Aug. 27, 2010, Pushia pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit murder and seven counts of insurance fraud. Pushia faces a life term in prison; he is expected to be sentenced in 2011.
But your honor, pole dancing is therapeutic for me
In 2008, Christina Gamble filed a workers’ compensation claim based on an apparent slip-and-fall back injury she suffered while working as a waitress at a Red Robin restaurant in Pennsylvania. Gamble claimed she was unable to work because her injuries prevented her from “standing and changing positions.”
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| Christina Gamble is accused of collecting on a workers’ compensation claim for an injury at a restaurant — then collecting tips as a dancer at a gentlemen’s club. |
It seemed like an open-and-shut case to Highmark Casualty Insurance, which paid Gamble more than $ 27,000 in disability and medical benefits. But in the course of a routine background check, the insurance company got a tip that Gamble was, well, double-dipping.
While receiving benefits, Gamble was working as an exotic dancer at gentlemen’s club – and there was video footage to prove it, authorities say. Gamble, 43, of Quakerstown, Pa., was arrested and charged with two counts of worker’s compensation fraud and one count of theft by deception. The charges are third-degree felonies, and carry a maximum penalty of seven years in prison and a $ 15,000 fine. Her criminal trial is set to start March 3, 2011.
Family ties and a faked robbery
Joseph Brooks of Maryland shot his cousin, Pierre Taylor, in the leg to fake a robbery. Taylor worked for UPS at the time and said he was wounded while on the job. Taylor filed a workers’ compensation claim with Liberty Mutual, which paid him $ 250,000. Taylor then split the money with Brooks. But a friend turned in the two men.
In January 2010, Brooks got a five-year suspended sentence and 18 months’ probation. Taylor, who told police he got the idea for the scam from a TV show, received a five-year suspended sentence and five years’ probation, and was ordered to repay the $ 250,000, according to the Maryland Attorney General’s Office.
Deadly job interview
In February 2008, Illinois businessman Ari Squire lured Justin Newman to his house with the promise of a job. Instead of giving Newman an offer letter, Squire killed the job prospect, put his body under a truck in his garage, traded clothes and wallets with Newman, and set his garage on fire.
Squire hoped Newman’s burned body would be mistaken for his body so his wife, Denise Squire, could collect on a multimillion-dollar insurance policy.
After faking his own death, Squire went into hiding but kept communicating with his wife by e-mail. Initially, police thought Squire was dead, but they became suspicious when Newman’s mother reported her son missing and when they discovered e-mails from Squire to his wife. Police caught up to Squire because he had been using Newman’s debit card, cell phone and car.
Just before authorities were about to arrest him, Squire committed suicide in a hotel room in Eureka, Mo. In February 2010, a jury awarded Newman’s mother and brother $ 6 million in a civil lawsuit filed against Squire’s estate and his wife. Denise Squire was not charged in the case.
Sources: National Insurance Crime Bureau, Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, news reports
–Kevin Lyons
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Makeup sale nov 2010
December 23rd, 2010
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What’s In The News- November 10th, 2010
December 22nd, 2010
Shares of International Game Technology (NYSE:IGT) tumbled 9% in premarket action after the company reported Q4 EPS of .18, vs. consensus estimates of .19. Revenues in the quarter fell to 6 million, inline with consensus estimates. ING (NYSE:ING) is planning two insurance IPOs, one based in Europe and the other out of the US, in order to fulfill requirements of its state bailout. The company’s CEO Jan Hommen is hoping the two IPOs will create a better valuation for the firm. GGP (NYSE:GGP) has officially emerged from bankruptcy and completed the spin-off of the Howard Hughes Corp. The company has also launched an offering of 135 million common shares, and intends to start paying a cash dividend in 2011. Additional details behind Boeing’s (NYSE:BA) Dreamliner emergency landing last night have come to light this morning, with sources indicating that there was a fire, possibly in the plane’s rear electronic bay, and there may have been at least a partial power failure. Meanwhile, it is currently unclear how this will affect the Dreamliner’s delivery table.
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Just Car Insurance Presents Autofest SpringNats 2010
December 11th, 2010
On The Road with Just Car Insurance Autofest SpringNats 2010 in Shepperton Brought to you by www.justcarinsurance.com.au
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E!E! & JDV Tour 2010: “Party Expo & Charm City” (Days 6-7)
December 8th, 2010
It’s been a while since I uploaded a video from the tour, I know — I got pretty tired of editing video of these sad sacks once I lost my health insurance and that handy-dandy scrip for Adderall (Extended Release). But here we are in Brooklyn where they paint murals of Biggie, hearing for the first time from Keith of Empire!Empire!. Patrick of JDV enlightens us to the downsides of sharing underwear with C-French and we speed away from the dirtiest place I’ve ever been. The next day in Baltimore we use the brute-force method on a difficult parallel parking job, tour the finest aquarium in the country and later play at the wonderful Charm City. Paul and Zach were also filming their own video, set to “King of Wishful Thinking” by Go West. Check that out here, although it sucks a lot and my tour videos are way better: vimeo.com
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Mark Oliver – Fountain Lake Football 2010
December 4th, 2010
Upload mp3s @ www.mp32tube.com Can switching to Geico save you 15% or more on car insurance? Can Mark Oliver make any football game sound interesting?
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(Largest Car Insurance Companies 2010) – Fast Car Insurance
November 17th, 2010
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GOLDEN AUTUMN 2010
November 15th, 2010
GOLDEN AUTUMN 2010
Click the cover to view and download PDF. Compare life insurance in Australia from all insurance companies at once.
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Military Benefit Association Sponsors Life Insurance Coverage for Cadets
Military Benefit Association (MBA), a sponsor of insurance and other benefits to the military and federal civilian communities, is sponsoring life insurance coverage for cadets and midshipmen attending the U.S. Military Academy, U.S. Naval Academy, U.S. Air Force Academy, U.S. Coast Guard Academy and U.S. Merchant Marine Academy. (PRWeb November 12, 2010) Read the full story at [[[SHIFTOUT …
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Research and Markets: Life Insurance in India
Research and Markets has announced the addition of the “Life Insurance in India” report to their offering.
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Life Insurance – Spotlight November 2010
November 11th, 2010
www.producersweb.com The November Spotlight on Life Insurance looks at insurers’ recent request to the Group of 20; the large number of Americans who are unaware of the various benefits of life insurance; and the potential effects of life settlements on insurers and reinsurers.
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