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From the silliest and downright bizarre to the most diabolical and tragic, the insurance industry has witnessed the lengths unscrupulous scammers would go to cash in on a claim. In this article, Insurance Business looks back at some of the worst cases of insurance fraud the world has ever seen and how these were unraveled. Here are the ones that made it to our top 10 list.
A cooking mishap that seemed straight out of a slapstick movie raised alarm bells for a Delaware home insurer after a local man claimed that a kitchen accident caused his home and convertible to go up in smoke.
According to the Daily Star, Nicholas Di Puma tried to put out a fire from a burning pan with a dishrag, but it also caught fire, so he took the pan and threw it out of his front door. Unfortunately, it landed on the backseat of his convertible setting it ablaze. A second pan also caught fire but as he was about to throw it out, he tripped over a box and the pan landed on his leather sofa, instantly igniting it.
Authorities were not convinced by his explanation, with the presiding judge describing the events as “like the plot of a Three Stooges movie.” Di Puma pleaded guilty to second- and third-degree attempted insurance fraud. He was ordered to pay $37,997 in restitution and was sentenced to five years of probation.
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