A South Dakota grand jury indicted a man late last month for filing a false insurance claim. The grand jury charged Steven Fideler, 45, with one count of filing a false insurance claim and one count of manufacturing a false document in support of a false insurance claim.
It is alleged that Fideler falsified facts to obtain coverage under his employer’s commercial liability policy for damage to his personal property. It is further alleged that Fideler produced a false damage estimate in support of the claim. Each charge carries a maximum sentence of ten years in the state penitentiary, a $10,000 fine, or both the jail sentence and fine. Fideler is scheduled for a court today in the Hutchinson County Courthouse.
The charges were brought by South Dakota’s new Insurance Fraud Prevention Unit that was created by the 1999 Legislature to combat insurance fraud across the State of South Dakota through the investigation and prosecution of fraudulent insurance acts.
Topics Fraud
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Zurich Insurance’s Beazley Bid Sets the Stage for More Insurance Deals 
Allstate CEO Wilson Takes on Affordability Issue During Earnings Call 
Florida’s Commercial Clearinghouse Bill Stirring Up Concerns for Brokers, Regulators 
Insurify Starts App With ChatGPT to Allow Consumers to Shop for Insurance 
