Division of Criminal Justice
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

Zulima V. Farber, Attorney General
Gregory A. Paw, Director, Division of Criminal Justice
Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:
April 12, 2006

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION
Division of Criminal Justice
(609) 984-1936

FORMER UNION COUNTY INSURANCE COMPANY EMPLOYEE ORDERED TO PAY RESTITUTION AFTER PLEADING GUILTY TO STEALING $3,000 IN INSURANCE PREMIUM MONEY

TRENTON - Division of Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced that a former Essex County insurance company employee has been ordered to repay the company more than $3,000 after pleading guilty to stealing insurance premium monies paid by prospective purchasers of automobile insurance.

According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Lisa Brown, 30, Orange, Essex County, was ordered by Union County Superior Court Judge William L’E. Wertheimer to pay $3,000 in restitution to Union County-based Fleet Insurance Services and to serve three years probation.

In pleading guilty on Feb. 6 before Judge Wertheimer, Brown admitted that between November 2001 and February 2002, while employed as a claim service representative for Fleet Insurance Services, he stole more than $3,000 in insurance premium monies paid by prospective customers seeking to purchase automobile insurance. Brown admitted that after receiving the insurance payments, she issued the clients fraudulent policy binders purportedly underwritten by First Trenton Indemnity Company and The Chubb Insurance Company. As a result of the theft, the insurance purchasers were left without valid automobile insurance coverage. Brown was neither licensed nor authorized to sell insurance or to accept premiums as a licensed insurance agent. Brown was charged via a state grand jury indictment returned on Nov. 2, 2005.

State Investigator Scott Stevens and Deputy Attorney General Richard W. Queen were assigned to the investigation.

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