LifeLock Blog

A former California insurance agent James Alfred Morris, 66, has been arrested and charged with eight felony counts of identity theft and six felony counts of grand theft. These charges come after he allegedly stole a man’s identity to sell insurance policies and collect the commissions.

Morris had lost his license to sell insurance in 2003 for similar fraud violations. Morris used a former employee’s identity to submit 15 applications for life insurance so he could collect the commissions. The $8,457 in commissions where paid directly to a bank account that Morris controlled. The California Department of Insurance was unaware of this until the insurance company discovered Morris’s insurance applications were fraudulent and filed a complaint against Morris, claiming he owned them the commission money back.

According to the police it’s only a matter of time before people like Morris get caught. Accordingly to Commissioner Poizner of California “Stealing another’s identity and then stealing money from an insurance company will never succeed. We will hunt you down, make sure you are prosecuted and then sent to jail.”

Perhaps the insurance industry is not the best place to commit identity theft and fraud. Perhaps there are already too many companies and government operations out there to expose and prosecute people trying to commit insurance fraud. Perhaps what the say about life insurance salesmen are true.