Monday, June 11, 2007

Lawsuits accuse Eddie Smith of insurance fraud

Lawsuits accuse Eddie Smith of insurance fraud- al.com: "An insurance company has filed a pair of lawsuits accusing Mobile outdoorsman Edmond H. 'Eddie' Smith IV of filing bogus insurance claims, including forging signatures of mortgage company employees to cash five checks totaling more than $800,000.

Lexington Insurance Co. alleges that Smith submitted fraudulent construction invoices to substantiate claims that a home he lives in on Fowl River suffered serious damage from 2005's Hurricane Katrina.

Those invoices and other acts prompted the company to cut six two-party checks totaling $1,075,940, including the five forged checks, according to one of two lawsuits filed by the company in federal court in Mobile."

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