Tuesday, June 20, 2006
It never hurts to keep key members informed!!!
As seen in my local newspaper online today -
Woman faked own death, collected $744G
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/20/06
BY KATHLEEN HOPKINS
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER — A 55-year-old Dover Township woman admitted in court Monday that she faked her death in an attempt to collect more than $1 million in life-insurance benefits.
Authorities said they do not know how Mary Maschuci was able to obtain death certificates with raised seals, but she did, and filled them out to say she had died of a massive coronary at Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood in 2003.
She forged a physician's signature on the death certificates, authorities said. Then, posing as her daughter, who was the beneficiary of her policies, Maschuci submitted them to nine different insurance companies.
In applying for the benefits, Maschuci directed the insurers to forward any correspondence to her address, not her daughter's, said Deputy Attorney General James Jones.
But Maschuci was foiled when one of the companies mistakenly sent correspondence regarding the claim to Maschuci's daughter, who knew nothing about her mother's scheme, said investigator Kristi Procaccido of the state attorney general's Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
As seen in my local newspaper online today -
Woman faked own death, collected $744G
Posted by the Asbury Park Press on 06/20/06
BY KATHLEEN HOPKINS
TOMS RIVER BUREAU
TOMS RIVER — A 55-year-old Dover Township woman admitted in court Monday that she faked her death in an attempt to collect more than $1 million in life-insurance benefits.
Authorities said they do not know how Mary Maschuci was able to obtain death certificates with raised seals, but she did, and filled them out to say she had died of a massive coronary at Kimball Medical Center in Lakewood in 2003.
She forged a physician's signature on the death certificates, authorities said. Then, posing as her daughter, who was the beneficiary of her policies, Maschuci submitted them to nine different insurance companies.
In applying for the benefits, Maschuci directed the insurers to forward any correspondence to her address, not her daughter's, said Deputy Attorney General James Jones.
But Maschuci was foiled when one of the companies mistakenly sent correspondence regarding the claim to Maschuci's daughter, who knew nothing about her mother's scheme, said investigator Kristi Procaccido of the state attorney general's Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor.
