INSURANCE CLAIM

Manawatu Standard, Volume LV, Issue 88, 12 March 1935, Page 2

INSURANCE CLAIM

CASE AT AUCKLAND. Per Press Association. AUCKLAND. March 11. The.-collection of an insurance claim on a car which was actually insured after the damage was done was repealed in the Police Court when further charges of conspiracy were heard to-day.- Accused were Alfred Ernest Hay and Norma.n Henry Fraser, who pleaded guilty and were committed for sentence, and Alexander Frederick Murray, who pleaded not guilty and was committed for trial Evidence was given that until July 1 Fraser was employed as senior claims assessor by the N.I.M.U. Mutual Insurance Company. ,A car was insured for £IOO on November 11, 1933, in the name of Frederick Murray and on November 20 a claim was made in respect of damage alleged to have been done in a collision on November 19. The particulars were filled in by Fraser, who as assessor was assigned the investigations. He duly reported and also submitted four photographs of the damaged car. The company paid out £62 9s 3d for repairs, which were done by a service station of which Hay was the principal. Later it was proved that the photographs were given to a film shop eight days before the alleged accident occurred and that the car involved was bought by Hay in Tauranga in a damaged state.