NU Online News Service, Oct. 21, 3:49 p.m. EDT
Farmers Insurance has filed a lawsuit against a three-time felon who passed himself off as an insurance adjuster, and two attorneys, alleging the trio operated an insurance scam to file inflated or fake insurance claims from California wildfires as far back as 2003.
In all, Farmers said it received 270 false claims totaling about $7 million from wildfires in 2003, 2007, 2008 and 2009.
According to the lawsuit and an introductory case brief from prosecutors in Ventura County, Calif., Glenn Sims allegedly ran an "entirely illegal and fraudulent business" where he would recruit homeowners to bring insurance claims following natural disasters and induced attorneys to work with him, concealing his criminal past.
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