Posted: Tue Mar 07, 2006 11:27 am Post subject: Do not cheat your insurance company by false claims
Hi all,
I want to share a news with you all which I got from googlenews.
A metropolitan police officer named Calvin Roots (age 39) has been accused of cheating his insurance company. It is said that he has obtained $8991.95 as insurance benefits from State Farm Insurance Company in the year 2001 by presenting false documents and proofs. He is accused of such wrong doing. He could get an imprisonment for 15 years along with a fine of $10,000 to $25,000. _________________ Register Now to have your Insurance queries solved.
Posted: Fri Nov 02, 2007 6:17 am Post subject: Certainly a shame
Really shameful. I wonder what made him do that. Being a police officer (keeper of the law) he must have been aware of the fact that scamming an insurance company is a crime and can lead to conviction even. In spite of that he had committed himself to the wrong doing. Therefore, he should now face the consequences.
I am feeling very sorry for his hapless family. How will they bear the shame?
Thanks Pablos, for this eye opening story. Hope it will enlighten others also.
I agree this is a terrible thing and unfortunately this is happening more and more....People trying to make a quick buck in any way that they can.. THe worst part of this is that it is an officer of the law....he knows better adn still tried to do this. I feel bad for his family... _________________ ~Monique~
False claims have been at a raise in India too. As a matter of fact, the Central Bureau of Investigation is investigation the conspiracy behind several false motor accident claims, wherein police, lawyers, judges, doctors and insurance agents were involved. Several millions of rupees have been swindled by these men for decades by making false calims. Only recently this has come to light.
Shameful...yes and I hope he sees jail time for it. Insurance fraud is so rampant it is unbelievable. It is so hard as an adjuster to have to sit there day in and day out and know that you are being lied to about the details of the accident, how injured people are and how much they have suffered. I know that it is a different subject, but altogether this is all insurance fraud and the reason that insurance rates are soooo high, I wish they could catch more people pulling things like this.
It is so hard as an adjuster to have to sit there day in and day out and know that you are being lied to about the details of the accident, how injured people are and how much they have suffered
Good morning everyone. While I am not at all familiar with the story, I have to agree that officer Roots made some poor choices.
How many of you remember that the former Insurance Commissioner in California, Chuck Quackenbush, was "removed from office" a few years ago because $1.3 Million that was supposed to go to those hurt in the Northridge catastrophy was conveniently misplaced - and later showed up in one of his personal accounts?
I testified in that case. Talk about a bad example. Mr. Quackenbush now lives in Hawaii. _________________ Please feel free to go to my website at www.markcolbert.com or, if you have a specific question, you can email me directly. I hope I can answer any questions you might have. If not, I can certainly find an answer right away.
POOR GUY!! He really got what he had comin' didn't he? That ticks me off almost as bad as what he did ....Why is he not in the Pen? After being forced to work on the ground for the victims of the Northridge catastrophy for oh, I don't know THE REST OF HIS STINKIN' LIFE!
Happy T-giving Lori,
Check this out: http://www.insurancejournal.com/magazines/west/2000/07/10/coverstory/2 1521.htm)
I could never get along with this guy.
Link disabled as per forum rules - Evan _________________ Please feel free to go to my website at www.markcolbert.com or, if you have a specific question, you can email me directly. I hope I can answer any questions you might have. If not, I can certainly find an answer right away.
Man he is really going to have to give an account for that. Even beyond his legal reprimand. What person that represents law enforcement would do such a thing just for personal gain???
Not only is he giving the policemen a bad name, but he along with all the other people commiting fraud out there is helping to drive up the cost of insurance. If the only claims we had to handle was legitimate claims, the premiums would be so much less.
Policemen must really be careful more than any other civil service, because they represent LAW ENFORCEMENT. If American citizens, especially the youth continue to lose confidence in LAW enforcement, because of people like this, then it will soon become contaigious and we will have an ANARCHY on our hands.
(RE: Ins.Invest.'s last post) Oh my gosh! Anyone wanting to read about how power and money corrupt, check the story in his post (you have to paste to browser), about the CA ins commish........the guy that is supposed to be 'looking out for the little guy against mean old insurance companies'! what a creep...And apparently getting this money for his wife's campaign is that right? You know that's a chick I'd want elected....
He really got what he had comin' didn't he? 
That ticks me off almost as bad as what he did 
....Why is he not in the Pen? After being forced to work on the ground for the victims of the Northridge catastrophy for oh, I don't know THE REST OF HIS STINKIN' LIFE!
