The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud has charged Jacksonvilleinsurance agent Kathren Zaazouh with insurance fraud and organizedscheme to defraud. Zaazouh allegedly submitted approximately 225bogus insurance applications and pocketed almost $46,000 in advancecommissions. She faces a maximum sentence of up to 30 years inprison if convicted.
|Zaazouh worked for American Family Life Assurance Company ofColumbus (AFLAC) until March 2009, when she was terminatedfollowing an investigation by AFLAC's Special Unit Investigator.AFLAC then forwarded its findings to the division for criminalinvestigation.
|The subsequent investigation found that Zaazouh submittedhundreds of applications with fake names of employees for severaldifferent businesses that had AFLAC group policies and created afake business using a list of non-existing employees.
|The division made over 800 insurance fraud-related arrests inthe last fiscal year.
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