Lying to your insurance company often results in Insurance Fraud charges in Greeley and Weld County. A superintendent is facing this charge after her well-intentioned actions were not well received by the insurance company. According to the report, the superintendent went to check on a student who was absent from school. She took him to a clinic for his illness, but he was denied medical care because he didn’t have insurance. The superintendent then took the boy to another clinic and claimed that he was her son in order to give him access to her insurance and het him the treatment he needed. This raised red flags for the insurance company and the woman was criminally charged.
Weld County Insurance Fraud Lawyer: Definition of Insurance Fraud in Morgan County
The Weld, Morgan, and Logan County, Colorado law definition of Insurance Fraud – C.R.S. 18-5-211 – is:
(b) With an intent to defraud presents or causes to be presented any insurance claim, which claim contains false material information or withholds material information;
(e) With an intent to defraud presents or causes to be presented any written, verbal, or digital material or statement as part of, in support of or in opposition to, a claim for payment or other benefit pursuant to an insurance policy, knowing that the material or statement contains false material information or withholds material information.
If this had occurred in Greeley, Erie, or Evans, the superintendent would likely be charged under subsection (b) or (e). By claiming that a person was covered under her insurance, knowing that the clinic would submit the claim, it could be argued she was defrauding the insurance company.
Sentence for Insurance Fraud in Johnstown and Berthoud
If the superintendent had been charged under one of the above subsections, then she would be facing a class 5 felony. In Johnstown and Berthoud a class 5 felony is punishable by 1-3 years in the Colorado Department of Corrections and up to $100,000 in fines.