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Insurance Fraud

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Insurance Fraud	comment	Insurance is a method of sharing the risk of loss between a large number of people. When someone suffers a loss, they are reimbursed by their insurance, paid for from the premiums of all the insureds who didn't suffer a loss. While it may seem that the lossee has "hit the jackpot" in that they're the only one who has gotten more out of their insurance than they put in, the principle of indemnity dictates that they are reimbursed only the value of their loss. Ideally, insurance pays to get you exactly back where you started, no more, no less. Of course, people looking for a quick buck have tried all kinds of schemes to try and make a profit off insurance. A number of different techniques include: Falsifying a loss, such as faking a burglary, hiding the "stolen goods" and then claiming their value from insurance. Deliberately causing a loss, such as burning down an old building to claim the money needed to build a new one Exaggerating the scale of a loss, such as claiming the worthless old paintings lost in a fire were actually valuable artworks. In particular, claiming exaggerated injuries from an accident (which is known as a Staged Pedestrian Accident when it has also been deliberately caused) either to claim on the insurance or to sue the person allegedly responsible Waiting until you incur a loss before buying insurance, then claiming that the loss took place during the policy period Lying about details that would prevent you from filing a claim, eg. who was driving the car or where the loss took place. Outright murdering a relative with life insurance. Bonus point if they try to Make It Look Like an Accident. Killing yourself but making it look like an accident or murder to secure the money for your family (can be done by either the dead person themselves or as a coverup by the beneficiary). Or faking your death for the same purpose. Combinations of these, e.g. someone files a claim for workers' compensation, and (1) aren't injured (a complete scam) (2) are not injured enough to be unable to work, e.g. if you get a paper cut it means you get a bandage and maybe a tetanus shot, it does not mean you can't use your hand; (overclaiming) (3) if you were injured but you stay off work long after actually healing (malingering). A common plot involves characters attempting to pull off an insurance fraud and either succeeding or having to deal with the consequences of being found out. Alternatively, the insurance company may be depicted as doing its best to prove a claim false, even going so far as to plant evidence, in order to void the policy. Needless to say, Truth in Television, and a subtrope of White-Collar Crime and The Con. Try to keep Real Life cases to the more unusual ones.
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Insurance Fraud / int_10e9182d	comment	An episode of Tales from the Crypt involved an abusive man pressuring his wife and brother into helping him fake his death to collect his life insurance. Since his brother was a morgue worker, he could set up a fake crime scene, fake his death, collect the money, go to South America, get plastic surgery, etc. Naturally, this being Tales From the Crypt, it backfired horribly.
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Insurance Fraud / int_135eac46	comment	Clue: Book 1, chapter 2 ("Who Stole Miss Scarlet's Diamonds?") has Mrs. Peacock suggest that Miss Scarlet is attempting this by faking the theft of her own diamond necklace since she had the insurance form in her weekend bag. It's ultimately subverted - Mrs. White stole them.
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Insurance Fraud / int_14f75384	comment	"Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption", the Stephen King novella that became The Shawshank Redemption, has a rather more evil version of Red the narrator than the movie. In the novella, Red deliberately kills his wife by tampering with the brakes of her car, after he took out a large insurance policy on her.
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Insurance Fraud / int_16fc4335	comment	Actual insurance doesn't factor in, but something similar happens in Take A Thief. A wealthy slumlord who owns tenements in the Wretched Hive section of Haven is still subject to health and safety inspections, and of course he hasn't been keeping his properties maintained, so he's in for some major fines. Actually renovating and repairing the buildings is very expensive on top of that. So he cuts his losses and has a building burned so he can sell off the land it stood on. The arsonist he hires makes sure no one got out but the landlord's not too bothered by that, he didn't evict or warn the tenants first; after all, they might talk and suggest it was intentional! Haven, clearly, gives a lot of power to building inspectors and very little to investigating buildings getting slopped with tar and burning down at suspicious moments.
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Insurance Fraud / int_1bfb41c6	comment	In the novel The Colour of Magic, no sooner has the concept of inn-sewer-ants been introduced to Ankh-Morpork than the cynical locals hit upon insurance fraud via arson. Partly because it's explained as being "like a bet that the Broken Drum won't get burned down" and partly because the guy selling the insurance thought the Broken Drum was worth 200 solid gold coins (enough to buy half of the city, but the Funny Foreigner selling the insurance wasn't aware of that).
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Insurance Fraud / int_1d87755c	comment	Blood on the Stars: The motive for the theft of the ruby. Voorland the jeweler and his customer Mark Dustin cooperated on a fake sale of a ruby, then arranged for the ruby to be "stolen" so they could divide up the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_2191a786	comment	In Fatal Instinct, the protagonist's wife and lover conspire to kill the protagonist to collect his life insurance, under highly specific circumstances which will invoke a triple indemnity clause (Namely, he has to be shot with a pistol, fall out of a north-bound train, and land in a river).
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Insurance Fraud / int_21eccc35	comment	The Doctor Blake Mysteries: In "For Whom the Bell Tolls," the murder of the Victim of the Week turns out to be tied to a warehouse that was burnt down for the insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_2221ecbd	comment	CSI: NY: A second season episode turned out to involve a less-than-competent plastic surgeon and his partner staging a random attack in the middle of a crowd at Grand Central Station in order to collect the $10 million his hands were insured for. The attack turned fatal when the partner was jostled and the lye being poured on his hand splashed into his face. Another episode had a man and wife try to fake his death in order to collect the life insurance, but she turned on him and tried to kill him off for real. A later episode had a couple of women taking in homeless men and then taking out life insurance policies on them, claiming to be their fiancees. Once the policies had been in effect long enough to collect the full amount, they'd kill the unsuspecting victims.
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Insurance Fraud / int_227e988e	comment	Another Jack Lemmon film, The Fortune Cookie, has a more comedic version of this. His character is a TV cameraman who's accidentally bowled over by a football player while covering a game, then gets persuaded by his Ambulance Chaser brother-in-law to exaggerate his injuries in order to collect a big insurance settlement.
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Insurance Fraud / int_22e7c6e9	comment	Probe's "Untouched by Human Hands": Brian Kingsley tries to fake his death and leaves his life insurance with his mistress so that he can leave his wife for a younger woman and two million dollars.
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Insurance Fraud / int_22e860f4	comment	On Psych, it turns out the reason international master thief Despereaux is able to pull off perfect robberies is because the owners allow him to "steal" it so they can collect on the insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_261c8d3f	comment	The Simpsons regularly uses this for a joke, often with Homer thinking he can get away with it. In "Simpson and Delilah", Homer uses his company health insurance to buy Dimoxinil, a drug not covered (because it's used solely for cosmetic reasons, to regrow hair), by saying it's for something more serious. When Mr. Burns finds out what Dimoxinil really is, he yells at Homer, and just when it looks like Homer might get fired and/or sued, Homer's assistant Karl takes the blame. After the house burns down in "Homer The Heretic", Homer tries to exaggerate the value of the loss: A milder example, in "Mr. Plow", Homer is talking to an insurance agent after crashing his car: In "Homer's Triple Bypass", Homer attempts to file a policy after having a severe heart attack, and after a few lies about his health, he almost gets away with it. But he has a heart attack the moment he tries to sign the paperwork, and the scheme goes down the drain. At least he gets a free calendar. "Bart the Fink" had Krusty going bankrupt and faking his death to avoid his debt. Once Bart and Lisa discover his new life and talked him into coming back to being Krusty, he then faked the death of his fake identity commenting that it was insured for quite a lot of money. In "The Joy of Sect", Reverend Lovejoy is seen spreading gasoline over the floor of his church after everyone converts to Movementarianism. "I never thought I'd have to do this again." In "Dumbbell Indemnity", (the title and plot spoofing the "Double Indemnity" example in live-action film) Moe gets Homer to destroy his car and make it look like an accident so he can use the insurance money to fund his extravagant treatment of his new girlfriend. However, Homer is caught and jailed, so Moe decides to burn down the bar to fake his death after confessing to the fraud. He doesn't go ahead with this plan but ends up burning down his uninsured bar by accident. In "The Strong Arms of the Ma", Moe attempts this after Marge gets involved in a bar fight. Moe sets fire to the bar and Lenny points out that he needs to have insurance to get the money. Inverted in "Mobile Homer". Homer tells the truth about his poor health to the policymaker but lies about his smoking habits. That is, he isn't a smoker, but told her he was because he wanted to look cool.
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Insurance Fraud / int_2777c062	comment	One Are You Being Served? episode has Grace Brothers under threat of hostile takeover. When the staff meet to discuss possible responses, the first one on Young Mr. Grace's list is "Burn the building down and rebuild elsewhere with the insurance money". Captain Peacock protests this, to which Young Mr. Grace notes in confusion, "Well, it worked in 1918..."
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Insurance Fraud / int_29516906	comment	Dragnet used it. In one episode, a woman's house was burglarized by a small-time petty thief. She seized on that to say her jade collection had been stolen, but she'd really sold the jade and was hoping to collect the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_2a8a46ff	comment	In Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv), when the Kira Taskforce discovers how much money they could get for fire insurance they all agree they should burn the old HQ to the ground.
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Insurance Fraud / int_2f28a53c	comment	Ellery Queen: "The Adventure of the Judas Tree" ultimately turns out to be a case of insurance fraud, with two suspects making a suicide look like murder so they can still claim the insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_30464d62	comment	A failed businessman plans to buy insurance, down the plane, and kill himself in the parody Airplane II: The Sequel, but he bought car insurance by mistake.
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Insurance Fraud / int_31ca9925	comment	The Dukes of Hazzard: One of Boss Hogg's favorite money-making schemes, he is nearly swindled himself by a pair of professional con artists who stage a fatal accident — and Coy Duke note (the episode aired during Season 5, when "substitute Dukes" Coy and Vance led the series) is left to suffer the most when he is led to believe he was responsible.
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Insurance Fraud / int_34caa86d	comment	Motive: A collision between insurance fraud and Blackmail turns out to be the motive for murder in "The Dead Name".
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Insurance Fraud / int_3567a45c	comment	In an early chapter of Nijigahara Holograph, a store manager proposes to an employee that he use the meat slicer to mutilate his hands and pay off his debt to the store's owner with the resulting insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_388cf8f0	comment	Batman: Black and White: In "Fortunes", Marie Margay made out a life insurance policy payable to her twin sister, then murdered her sister in a way that made it look like she herself had committed suicide, intending to impersonate her sister and claim the insurance money. In describing his conclusions, the detective Ashraf points out that she was apparently unaware that life insurance doesn't pay out on suicide,note It can, but there is usually a really long waiting period. one of several reasons he sums the plan up as "poorly conceived".
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Insurance Fraud / int_38fa34eb	comment	Wonder Woman Vol 1: While trying to get to the dentist, Etta runs into a woman directing two men to mug her and steal her jewelry at gunpoint in order for her to collect on the insurance on said jewelry. The three mobsters then threaten Etta at gunpoint for overhearing their plot, at which point Etta, who is in a hurry and was just going to leave them alone, beats them all unconscious and calls the cops on them.
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Insurance Fraud / int_3bd9711	comment	In Zodiac, eco-activist Hank Boone is legendary for sinking whaling ships. In reality, he only ever sunk one in person — all the rest were sunk by their owners to collect on the insurance and blamed on him.
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Insurance Fraud / int_3c4b9931	comment	In What We Do in the Shadows (2019), Nadja decides to burn down her unprofitable vampire nightclub for the insurance money. She runs into three problems. One, the blood sprinklers they've been failing to get to work the whole time finally function, putting out the fire. Two, she forgot to remove the money she'd been embezzling from its hiding place in the room she started the fire, so it was the only thing that burned. Three, she doesn't know how insurance works and never took out a policy on it in the first place.
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Insurance Fraud / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: in the second episode, desperate to find money for the family''s legal defense and living expenses, Michael has George Michael burn down the family banana stand for insurance money. Unfortunately, the insurance hadn't been paid for, as GOB who was asked to mail in the check had a tantrum and threw the envelope in the the sea, and to add insult to injury, when Michael tells George Sr. about the incident, he jumps over the table to attack him, telling him that there was an Emergency Stash of money in the walls, which he had been hinting at throughout the episode by telling him "there's always money in the banana stand"
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Insurance Fraud / int_3f9e415	comment	Insurance fraud is a side mission in the Saints Row games, wherein the player character throws himself into traffic to take ludicrous bumps that show off the physics engine and rack up cash.
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Insurance Fraud / int_424d58fb	comment	Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar follows the cases of insurance investigator Johnny Dollar. Naturally, insurance fraud was a common plot driver.
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Insurance Fraud / int_44e08ee8	comment	Homicide: Life on the Street had the case of Black Widow Calpurnia Church, who had numerous husbands and other relations murdered after taking out life insurance. Her family was well aware of this, but they were convinced she had voodoo powers and could not be stopped.
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Insurance Fraud / int_44e0b783	comment	Garfield: "On today's show, people who don't trust their pets".
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Insurance Fraud / int_455e3038	comment	King of the Hill: One episode features a man burning down his shop. His next scene features him being taken to court for insurance fraud. A later episode had a weird subversion. In said episode, Hank really did hurt his back while at work, but despite being advised by his workers, and even Mr. Strickland, his boss, to accept worker's comp., and take some time to recover, Hank refuses because he'll miss work. When he finally, hesitantly, accepts to accept workers comp, he's seen by two doctors, the first who suspects Hank is trying to pull off a scam, and another who actually tries to pull off a scam. Later when he goes to a yoga studio, out of sheer desperation, he gets better, he's photographed walking out, and charged with insurance fraud. When Hank brings in the yoga instructor to his hearing, the review panel tells Hank the instructor's antics are not helping him at all. Hank says that's exactly what he's trying to prove, that no sane, level-headed person would willingly seek the help of someone like the instructor unless they were incredibly desperate. Hank wins the case, and he's allowed to stay on worker's comp. until he fully recovers, with his yoga sessions being fully covered. Hank compromises that he'll go back to work, while practicing yoga at the office.
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Insurance Fraud / int_4617a9f2	comment	Married... with Children: Al believes the Dodge was stolen, so he claims, among other things, that he had the Mona Lisa and a Stradivarius violin in the car. While Peggy is on the phone with the adjustor, she admits she has previously filed incorrect claims before, but it was with another insurer. Right when Al is about to collect, a cop shows up to inform the car has been found. Another episode revealed that Steve was insured for a million dollars, and Marcy didn't even try to hide that she planned to kill him to collect the money (as it's a gag nothing comes of it). When Peggy tries to get Al insured to pull the same scam, he is saved since his job as a shoe salesman makes the chances he will kill himself too high for him to be insured. As a gag from an Aborted Arc that ended with it being All Just a Dream, Jefferson tries to talk himself out of confronting a seemingly insane Bud by suggesting Marcy should go since she's the one with a million-dollar insurance. She then asks him which million-dollar insurance he's talking about and he decides to meet Bud to get out of answering her question.
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Insurance Fraud / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: In the novel The Colour of Magic, no sooner has the concept of inn-sewer-ants been introduced to Ankh-Morpork than the cynical locals hit upon insurance fraud via arson. Partly because it's explained as being "like a bet that the Broken Drum won't get burned down" and partly because the guy selling the insurance thought the Broken Drum was worth 200 solid gold coins (enough to buy half of the city, but the Funny Foreigner selling the insurance wasn't aware of that). Moving Pictures includes this gem:
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Insurance Fraud / int_46d48eba	comment	The James Bond novel The Spy Who Loved Me was about Bond preventing the owners of a small hotel from burning it down to collect the insurance. He also seduces a member of the hotel staff, hence the title. The Bond movie of the same name has a totally different plot and shares only the name and a villain with metal teeth - at the author's request, as he hated the way the book came out.
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Insurance Fraud / int_4711d5a1	comment	At the end of Free Willy, the bad guys decide to kill Willy for the insurance money. The good guys have other ideas and do what it says in the title.
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Insurance Fraud / int_47ba573b	comment	A guy in In the Mouth of Madness burns down his warehouse of fur coats, but it turns out just stashed them away, and gave one to his wife... and another to his mistress. Catching both those ladies in their coats gave the guy away.
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Insurance Fraud / int_49ad83ee	comment	One of the last quests in the Goblin starting zone in World of Warcraft has the player burn down their house to collect the insurance money (the island's about to go sky-high anyway).
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Insurance Fraud / int_4e45b093	comment	Subverted in The Big Bang Theory when everybody assumes Stuart burned down the comic book store for the insurance money, even though he is devastated by the loss.
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Insurance Fraud / int_5307b01d	comment	Implied in Penny Arcade when Gabe and Tycho burn their video game lounge down. Then they regret it because the reviews said it was the next big thing.
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Insurance Fraud / int_5338e961	comment	The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) also had kill the spouse for life insurance as a plot element.
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Insurance Fraud / int_58fc1f8c	comment	Subverted in the zombie episode of Space☆Dandy. After becoming a zombie himself, Dandy hits on the idea of cashing in his life insurance policy since he's technically dead. It's ridiculous, but it's legitimate.
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Insurance Fraud / int_5c208620	comment	In a comic book story based on Superman: The Animated Series, Luthor hires robbers to steal valuables that are reported as being accidentally destroyed during the attempted robberies so he'll collect the insurance money. Superman stops the scheme and Luthor has to save face by claiming the destroyed artifacts were copies made to deceive thieves.
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Insurance Fraud / int_5c897f4a	comment	Schlock Mercenary: After (involuntarily) completing their last job for him, General Xinchub compares Tagon's Toughs and the trouble they've caused him to a six-million kilocred home with a twelve-million kilocred mortgage, and then says that arson is the appropriate thing to do with such houses.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6007bcf4	comment	Several side-missions in Sleeping Dogs (2012) involve you "stealing" the mission-giver's car and then driving it into the harbor so they can collect on auto insurance. The first one will even take the time to explain how why this is better than just selling the car. Interestingly, the value of the car decreases as it gets more dinged up, so to collect the most insurance, you need to drive safely and not mark the car at all before it's in the water.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6059ad6b	comment	xkcd: Strip #1494 "Insurance", in which a programmer buys fire insurance but the salesman heads off his attempt to "hack" the policy.
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Insurance Fraud / int_60b5eb13	comment	Revenge Films: My family was talking sh*t about me behind my back, so I left them: Kaitlin found out later on that her husband, her son, and her mother-in-law plotted to kill her to get her insurance money. Mom tried to borrow money under my name, but I said noâ€¦ Thenâ€¦: OP's mother demanded her she give up her health insurance card to borrow money. When the OP refused, the abusive mother kicked her out of the house.
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Insurance Fraud / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: When Roger and Stan have restaurants next to each other, Stan's ends up mysteriously exploding only for the fire to spread to Roger's restaurant and burn it down. Roger then admits that he got in over his head and figured that no one would suspect Stan of intentionally destroying his (wildly successful) restaurant.
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Insurance Fraud / int_63230cb	comment	Krillin from Dragon Ball Z Abridged had himself insured for a crapload of money before heading to the planet Namek, and named his brother "Juan Sanchez" (actually himself) as the beneficiary. While Krillin was killed by Freeza while on Namek, and was later brought back to life by Porunga (not that the government believes it when he's eventually busted), it's still definitely fraud since Krillin doesn't have a brother.
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Insurance Fraud / int_635429db	comment	In a Biter Comics strip, immediately proceeding a car accident a man tries to buy car insurance over his phone.
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Insurance Fraud / int_64ddf294	comment	In EVE Online, ship insurance payouts were originally based on a static mineral cost for the ship. However, the player-driven economy drove the market value of the ships below the insurance payouts. Players started committing massive in-game insurance fraud by creating a ship, getting insurance, then blowing the ship up as soon as possible for a hefty profit. Eventually, insurance payouts were patched to be tied to the market value of the ship to stop this nonsense. However, this is still in effect in events such as evictions in Wormhole space, when a destroyed starbase drops more ships than can feasibly be extracted from the system (or drops capital ships that can't fit through the wormholes). It is also somewhat indirectly in effect with the idea of Ship-Replacement Programs ('SRP'; ship insurance paid for by alliance leaders rather than the game) which many large alliances have. In some cases, alliances offer SRP of greater value than the ships being lost, which when combined with the game's default insurance mechanics means that a linemember pilot in a large enough alliance may be able to earn money simply by flying ships into battle and boldly dying for nothing. Worth noting, insurances comes for free with every ship. Players are allowed to buy more valuable plans to increase the resulting insurance payout, but this means that even "uninsured" ships still result in insurance payments on death. The only times in which insurance is not paid out at all are if the ship has no pilot when it dies, or if the ship is destroyed by CONCORD. In a game otherwise taken so seriously that it releases monthly economic reports on its own player-run economy, there are some questions about how the Pend Insurance Company stays in business.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6633a097	comment	Woody Woodpecker: In one short, Buzz Buzzard coerces Woody into signing a life insurance that will grant Buzz a sum of ten thousand dollars in case of Woody's accidental death.
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Insurance Fraud / int_66989d0	comment	The 1970s detective series Banacek (George Peppard) dealt exclusively with insurance fraud.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6776fff8	comment	Dwayne gets sent to jail for burning down GPF Software's offices for the insurance in the "Surreptitious Machinations" arc of General Protection Fault, since GPF had fallen on hard times. It turns out to be a set-up, carried out by the same people responsible for someone disguising themselves as Fooker and shooting up a mall, with the culprit having also had a hand in GPF's declining fortunes.
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Insurance Fraud / int_67eb8c05	comment	Pizza Tycoon: Possible to do by getting arrested and fined on purpose, and filing a claim. The companies tend to be corrupt as well and may be "too busy" to handle your claim until it has been too long for it to be valid anymore.
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Insurance Fraud / int_68636fe	comment	Jackie from What Keeps You Alive says this is why she murders all of her wives and then creates new identities to move onto the next one, but since she's The Sociopath, Jules tells her that she must do it because she's desperate to feel something. Jackie brushes it off.
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Insurance Fraud / int_687bcc4c	comment	Deep Rising: Business mogul Simon Canton wanted to sink the cruise liner he built to cater exclusively to the mega-rich because despite all the money he poured into the project, he was still operating at a net loss and only the insurance money could save him from going bankrupt. His plan involved faking a take-over by pirates, then escorting the passengers to the lifeboats and having the pirates blow up the ship with a torpedo. Then of all things a giant octopus monster shows up and spoils his plan by eating everyone.
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Insurance Fraud / int_694ab80	comment	The Batman Beyond episode "Inqueling" featured a Corrupt Corporate Executive that hired Inque to sabotage his own company so he could claim the insurance money. (And if that weren't enough, he double-crossed Inque and tried to kill her to avoid paying her.)
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Insurance Fraud / int_69fa7496	comment	Disney Ducks Comic Universe: A plot based on the joke of a person buying cigars, insuring them against fire, and then smoking them turns up in an Italian Disney Ducks Comic Universe Uncle Scrooge story. Rockerduck insures a box of Havana cigars for a ridiculous sum against fire. However, Scrooge notes that the insurance deal directly says that if the fire is deliberate there will be no payout. He is still worried when Rockerduck stores the cigars in a place that is a horrible firetrap. Donald Duck points out that the cigars aren't insured against theft - not realising that this will, of course, make Scrooge force him to steal them. While trying to do so, Donald succeeds in starting a fire...
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Insurance Fraud / int_6b436ffe	comment	Refreshing Stories: Toshio Hiyama made himself rich by killing people for insurance after his wife died in a flood in Thailand and got her insurance money. His daughter Chinatsu is also in on it, as she killed her previous husband to collect his insurance and then plans to do the same to Hiroshi after marrying him.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6b5f9aac	comment	How to Make It in America has Rene trying this with the Rasta Monsta truck.
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Insurance Fraud / int_6bbde1c8	comment	Overwatch has supplementary material showing Junkrat and Roadhog got mixed up in one. A CEO found out they were trying to go legit and tricked them into thinking someone was holding his workers hostage. The Junkers arrived at the location and were attacked by omnics, leading to them destroying the site which got the police's attention. The omnics turned out to be mere security bots belonging to the CEO, who used the money from the building's insurance to pull his company out of the red... at the cost of his own life once Junkrat and Roadhog caught up to him for being set up.
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Insurance Fraud / int_72715b	comment	A variant was committed by the captain of the Vociferous Carmichael in On Stranger Tides by Tim Powers. He didn't cheat his insurance company directly; rather, he charged the owners of his ship's cargo a fat fee to be used to insure its safe delivery, but pocketed their money instead of buying the promised insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_73a1e39	comment	One house fire on Chicago Fire was discovered to have been set by the homeowner for this. Unfortunately, his estranged wife was still inside and burned to death.
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Insurance Fraud / int_7460586f	comment	In season seven of Archer, this is the ultimate goal of Veronica Deane. She and her ex-husband, film director Ellis Crane, seek to obtain insurance money for the failed production of a film they are working on by engineering a series of accidents, as the insurance ultimately would have been double the estimated box office revenue of the film. Ellis attempts to kill Veronica in one of the accidents so that he can collect her share of the money. She repays him in kind.
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Insurance Fraud / int_819e76f0	comment	The Accountant: Two brothers with a family farm drowning in debt finally realize that the only way to save the farm is to kill the one brother's unfaithful wife for the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_81bd05cd	comment	Pitch (2009): In the end, Gene's wife Cheryl shoots him dead as part of a scheme to collect insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_8300bb14	comment	Fletch deals with this in the "plan your own murder so your wife gets the benefits" variety. Of course, it's really to kill Fletch, who has been digging too close to the drugs on the beach story, that Stanwyck is involved in.
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Insurance Fraud / int_8ceb6c32	comment	One of the Manhattan goals in Tony Hawk's Underground has you driving a hooptie around long enough for it to overheat and catch fire and dump it into the pier so the owner can get the insurance money. The guy who's asking you to do this intends to use the payout for some new shoes.
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Insurance Fraud / int_8d81bb26	comment	The NCIS episode "Reasonable Doubt" had the wife and mistress of a sailor both suspected of murder, but they can't charge either of them because no matter which one they arrest, there's enough ambiguity in the evidence to establish reasonable doubt that it could have been the other one. It turned out to have been a suicide, and the two women set up the ambiguous crime scene to make it look like a murder that neither of them could be successfully prosecuted for in order to collect on his life insurance (which wouldn't pay out in a suicide).
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Insurance Fraud / int_8d85e2c5	comment	Vera: In "The Sea Glass", an old case of arson turns out to have been a case of insurance fraud. This, in turn, is connected to the current murder. In "Blood Will Tell", the business partner of the Victim of the Week burns down their car dealership while attempting to make it look like an attack aimed at his late partner. Vera is suspicious when she checks his finances and discovers that the only bill he has paid in the last three months is his insurance premiums.
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Insurance Fraud / int_8de2e73c	comment	The movie Double Indemnity is about a woman plotting to kill her husband to claim the life insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_8df5521b	comment	Superman : In "The End Of The Planet!", the staff of the Daily Planet have to deal with a rival publisher. Perry White spies the owner of said rival setting fire to his own paper-warehouse, realizes that it's a fire insurance scam, and prepares to print the story. However, a nearby Superman sees that the arsonist is just an actor posing as the owner; the real scheme was setting up Perry to commit criminal libel and be forced to legally close down his paper as witnesses could prove the real owner was elsewhere. In Superman: Secret Origin, Lex Luthor started his fortune by killing his parents to collect insurance money. A Mind-Switch in Time has one ruined businessman who set fire to his failing garment business to collect the insurance. Unfortunately for him, Superman put the fire out. In a comic book story based on Superman: The Animated Series, Luthor hires robbers to steal valuables that are reported as being accidentally destroyed during the attempted robberies so he'll collect the insurance money. Superman stops the scheme and Luthor has to save face by claiming the destroyed artifacts were copies made to deceive thieves.
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Insurance Fraud / int_9068877a	comment	In Red vs. Blue, Mad Doctor Emily Grey decides to exploit the unusual condition of Agent Washington (after his friends time traveled and prevented him from getting shot in the neck, Wash constantly visited the hospital feeling said wound, even if it didn't happen) by, in her own words, "getting creative with his medical assessment". The insurance compensation was hefty, enough to pay for a new wing of her hospital and finance Wash's new business making cannons for funerals.
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Insurance Fraud / int_90b916ba	comment	An episode of Batman: The Animated Series has a developer build a casino called "Joker's Wild", using the Joker's face, costume, and color scheme all over the place. The developer claims that the Joker is a universal symbol of gaming, not just one madman's motif. Joker sees the press conference on TV and promptly breaks out of Arkham in order to get his revenge for what he sees as an insult. It turns out the Joker theme was put in midway through planning because the project was over budget and the developer was in danger of bankruptcy. He actually wanted to provoke the Joker into destroying the place so he would get the insurance money. Guess what? Turns out that it's a bad idea to deliberately provoke a homicidal maniac, though the Joker does give him props for it while holding him at gunpoint, calling it "a scheme worthy of me."
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Insurance Fraud / int_921cb27d	comment	In My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series Prince Blueblood hired Pinkie Pie to start a fire in the palace during the Grand Galloping Gala to collect on his stake of the insurance on it (that his company sold in the first place) and blamed it on Applejack's completely separate grease fire. Unfortunately, there's nothing that can be done about his fraud: the only one with the authority to punish him is Celestia, and she might have been in on it (she also had an insurance policy on the castle, and she hates the gala).
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Insurance Fraud / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	Bob's Burgers: In "Tina-Rannosaurus Wrecks", Bob lets Tina drive the family car, and in a moment of panic she dings the only other car in the parking lot. What's worse, that car belonged to Bob's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Jimmy Pesto, who plans to sue him for the hell of it. So Bob has no option but to lie to his insurance agent and say he was driving. The agent not only believes him, he invites him to cook at his home. Once there, however, the grill sets the house on fire. It turns out the insurance agent himself was committing insurance fraud and blackmails Bob into getting involved in more schemes.
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Insurance Fraud / int_9a67b688	comment	Used more than once in Case Closed, almost always as a cause for someone's murder. i.e., a man took a large insurance policy benefiting him and his best friend, so his friend killed him and then hid the body and hired an actor as a Body Double to cash on the insurance itself and get away with it.
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Insurance Fraud / int_9bab2711	comment	Small Time Crooks: One of Ray's friends sent two of his children to college with money from that kind of fraud and was planning another insurance fraud when he decided to set this plan aside to help Ray with a bank robbery.
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Insurance Fraud / int_9d7264f	comment	An episode of CSI: Miami involves a company killing its employees and collecting on the "standard life insurance" policies they have for each employee. Strangely enough, the policy in question even applies to suicides (including faked ones). In the end, the Corrupt Corporate Executive seems to get away with it by leaving no trail from the underling who actually did the murders, only to be killed by the brother of one of his victims. One would think that Horatio might possibly drag his feet in looking for the jerk's killer.
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Insurance Fraud / int_9f78fda3	comment	The episodes of Murder, She Wrote featuring Dennis Stanton usually start as a case of insurance fraud that then escalates to murder.
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Insurance Fraud / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Godfellas", when the career-criminal-robot Bender gets sent into space and has a brief stint with life forming on his body, note brief, he meets an entity that may or may not be God shortly thereafter. In the conversation that follows, it explains using a "light touch" with creation in terms of "a safe-cracker, or a pickpocket".
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Insurance Fraud / int_a37f7bb1	comment	In Superman: Secret Origin, Lex Luthor started his fortune by killing his parents to collect insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_a4616794	comment	In Friendship is Witchcraft, this is Applejack's excuse to leave when she sees Twilight's fanfiction.
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Insurance Fraud / int_a4ae80d6	comment	In Oddworld Soulstorm the media and business cartels of Oddworld refuse to believe that Mudosâ€™s largest meat processing plant Rupturefarms was destroyed by an escaped mudonkon slave named Abe and the rest of his escaped comrades, not buying that weak slaves are capable of such things or having supernatural powers to do so. They quickly blame the whole thing on Rapturefarms CEO Molluck thinking he purposely killed his own workforce and burned down his own factory to collect the insurance Moolah of his struggling company. Molluck is now on the run from the authorities to escape prosecution from the Magog cartel and his pissed-off investors, and at the same time pursues Abe and his escaped slaves to get revenge and to clear his name on the whole thing.
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Insurance Fraud / int_a8d21fcd	comment	In Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot, the plot is that a company received insurance for a fire in a weapons warehouse. Turned out they took the wares away first.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ad8541c9	comment	Encyclopedia Brown: The title character once witnessed a man attempting this by crashing his car and faking a back injury. However, Encyclopedia notices that the tires on the man's "brand new" car are worn out, indicating he sold them before doing the deed. Encyclopedia also saw the guy run the car off the cliff into the ocean, lay down, and pretend to be injured; the tires were the evidence needed to show it wasn't just the possibly mistaken story of a kid who woke up really early on a camping trip. In another chapter, a convention of police chiefs is being held in Idaville. Encyclopedia comes up with the idea of making up a crime for them to solve, which involves a store owner claiming his store was robbed of a valuable diamond necklace - the solution reveals it was a glass duplicate that was stolen, and his intention was to defraud his store and his business partner for the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ae9f16f1	comment	The Turning Tide features a businessman who passes data about convoys to the enemy, and then makes sure his own ships on the convoys are not carrying nearly as many goods as they are supposed to.
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Insurance Fraud / int_af95b79	comment	During Death Star, Memah's Coruscant cantina The Soft Heart is burned down along with every other business on the block and a known arsonist was subsequently taken into custody. Memah herself never took out insurance since it was pricey and the advanced fire suppression systems should have made it unnecessary, but given that the suppression systems failing was just the last in a series of disruptions to vital services across the whole block she assumes it's insurance fraud committed by someone on a larger scale than her. It's actually heavily implied that this was an Imperial op to get a bunch of business owners desperate enough that they'll work on the Death Star, as they were sniffing around in those earlier scenes and one approaches her with a job offer as she picks through the rubble.
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Insurance Fraud / int_b3933a70	comment	In Home Improvement, Tim drops a large steel I-beam on Jill's car during an episode of Tool Time and checks his (very long) insurance policy; when he sees there's no "beam droppage" clause, he talks to his insurance dealer to add it. The dealer responds that he saw the show.
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Insurance Fraud / int_b6e5c569	comment	Trouble Busters: In this story, Hillary finds out her abusive husband David put life insurance on her and plotted to kill her in a way that makes it look like an accident to claim the money and spend it on his mistress.
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Insurance Fraud / int_b712435c	comment	On Leverage, this is used fairly often as a means of taking down their opponents, due to Nate's role as a former insurance investigator. The team frequently causes their opponents to be arrested for insurance fraud or otherwise inconvenienced by it. In a first season episode Sterling, a current insurance investigator, benefited from avoiding payout on a several million dollar settlement when Nate and the team set up the villain for insurance fraud by selling him his own horse for several million dollars. In a fourth season episode, the team causes a corrupt cash-for-gold business to be arrested for insurance fraud after using a drill that the business owners bought as part of a decoy con to be used against them in a heist of their gold. Even better is the team don't even bother calling the cops; instead the marks themselves do it and when they report their gold stolen from a useless vault with a drill they bought, the officer literally laughs "that's the worst insurance fraud story I've heard" as he arrests them. One episode is a "Rashomon"-Style retelling of a theft all but Nate claim to have committed. The last story is that of Nate (still working for the insurance company then), who figures out that the item in question is a fake and tells the owner that there won't be a payout waiting for him.
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Insurance Fraud / int_b88460c9	comment	Whodunnit? (UK): The crime in "Diamonds Are Almost Forever" turns out to be insurance fraud with the thieves stealing their own diamonds in order to keep the stones and claim the insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_b9cd7ac3	comment	It's a Wonderful World: The plot is propelled by Willie Heywardâ€™s wife and her lover who murder Willie's friend and frame Willie. His insurance covers him getting the chair—10 million dollars in 1939 dollars.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ba67bca9	comment	A grocery store owner in The Strawberry Statement lets the protestors take as much food as they want for free, as long as they pretend they're robbing him so he can get insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Accidents Will Happen," Squidward complains that a flimsy shelf in the storage room fell and injured him, and he calls the Office of Work Safety (OWS) and files a complaint against Mr. Krabs. As Spongebob, Patrick, and the OWS agent investigates the circumstances of the accident, the agent forces Mr. Krabs to cater to Squidward's every whim, lest Squidward sue Krabs for everything he's got. When Mr. Krabs remembers the surveillance camera he "borrowed" from the airport, the video footage reveals that Squidward climbed onto the shelf to take a nap, the shelf collapsed under Squidward's weight, but he was unharmed. As punishment, Squidward has to cater to Mr. Krabs' every whim.
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Insurance Fraud / int_bd0d2c55	comment	Rumpole of the Bailey: In "Rumpole and the Blind Tasting," Rumpole's client, a fence, is accused of receiving stolen property in the form of a massive shipment of (allegedly) stolen bottles of (allegedly) very expensive fine wine. As it turns out, however, the bottles weren't stolen and the wine was neither fine nor expensive—it was just the cheap plonk Rumpole himself drank at Pommeroy's Wine Bar rebottled as ChÃ¢teau Cheval Blanc. The wine merchant who claimed the bottles in question had been stolen from him had first tricked a wine critic from the Times into identifying the cheap wine as the expensive wine and then sold it incognito to Rumpole's client. The wine was insured at the value of the expensive stuff, of course, so his insurer paid out a concomitantly massive sum. The police discovering the wine was actually terrible for him, especially after Rumpole—who happened to be there when the critic identified the wine—cross-examined the critic in a way that got her to admit that the merchant had led her on and that her earlier identification was incorrect.
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Insurance Fraud / int_bf1f233d	comment	A Mind-Switch in Time has one ruined businessman who set fire to his failing garment business to collect the insurance. Unfortunately for him, Superman put the fire out.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c0d295c4	comment	Not actually related to this trope, but Team Fortress 2 has an achievement called Insurance Fraud, in this game, the Spy class can disguise as an enemy, making all players in the enemy team look at you and think you're one of them, you can choose to disguise as all 9 classes including the Spy, and enemy Medics can even heal you, you get this achievement if you kill an enemy, while an enemy Medic was healing you.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c348548b	comment	In Mystery of the Wax Museum, Joe burns down Ivan's previous wax museum to get his hands on the fire insurance to clear away their debts.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c4076b9e	comment	In Gunslinger Girl, Angelica is almost murdered for the insurance money by her parents.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the Doctor Who episode "The End of the World," Cassandra intends to destroy the space station so she can claim everyone's insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c47a07c7	comment	In the Sealab 2021 episode "The Policy", Sparks filed insurance policies on Stormy, Debbie, Marco, and Quinn, then manipulated Murphy into sending them into a shipwreck to look for gold, blowing it up with the dynamite he planted earlier. He callously admitted the insurance fraud to Murphy and pulled out a Tesla coil, planning to electrocute Murphy and collect on the insurance policy Sparks filed on him. Murphy pulls a Taking You with Me and electrocutes Sparks as he dies. The policemen investigating seem unaware of the fraud as they believed the scene to be a Suicide Pact due to Murphy's credit card debt that kicked the episode off in the first place.
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Insurance Fraud / int_c564dcf0	comment	Moving Pictures includes this gem:
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Insurance Fraud / int_c5e1ce8b	comment	All Alone: Danny and Officer Lagos aren't really sure whether Lagos can validly cash in his life insurance now that he's one of the walking dead. He could pass almost any medical tests to certify death — limited or missing reflexes, no body heat, no circulation, no breathing if he doesn't want to — but he's still walking and talking, which "tends to be a counter-indication to that sort of thing."
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Insurance Fraud / int_ca08598f	comment	A variant appears in The Wire, where the intent is not to collect insurance, but to allow a police officer to retire early with a bump in pension due to injury. Detective Mahon does this legitimately after getting hurt during an arrest. He suggests that his partner Polk do the same thing by deliberately falling down the stairs to their basement office. Polk nearly goes through with it, but ultimately he takes medical leave to go into alcoholism rehab instead. Meanwhile, Mahon talks about committing a little follow-up fraud of his own, by continuing to earn income but not reporting it so that it's not deducted from his pension.
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Insurance Fraud / int_cac1f772	comment	Several episodes of CSI have this sort of thing as the ultimate motivation for deaths the team investigate. It's almost always played for tragedy since the CSIs uncovering the true nature of the situations almost always means that someone made the ultimate sacrifice for nothing. In one episode a man suffering financial difficulties fakes his suicide to look like a hunting accident so that his wife will still receive his life insurance. Another episode had an old woman crash her car in an attempt to have her son get the insurance money as well as get payback on the HMO that denied her money to have her cancer treated (she had tried to crash the car into the HMO's offices but she punched in the wrong street direction on the address on her GPS and crashed into a restaurant instead). Another man lost his mentally handicapped ward's savings in a casino and tried to fake getting stabbed in the back. The fourth-season episode "Suckers," for a change, features an insurance fraud scam that does not involve a suicide, or any dead bodies at all: a casino hosts a (completely fraudulent) exhibit of Japanese artifacts as a cover for an equally staged robbery. It would probably have gone off flawlessly if the casino's owner hadn't had the actors he hired to put on the faux "exhibit" leave behind a bunch of paper money bands as "proof" that they'd stolen ten million dollars in cash. Notably, the casino owner seems ready to skirt on any criminal charges as the CSIs can't prove anything...only for Grissom to say he's given his findings to the insurance company who don't need full evidence so "I wouldn't be waiting for a check." Another one, a middle-aged couple faked a murder. They pretend that one of them was annoyed by the electrician working next door and have him 'murdered' by messing with the electrical fuses and get him electrocuted. Turns out, the real target is their own nephew who was in the area when it happened just so that they could claim his life insurance. The electrician is just a coverup for them for committing murder so that they look like murdering him instead of their nephew and that his death just appears to be unintended collateral damage. The investigators were suspicious at the start that they were apparently too honest for murderers.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ce2c3c13	comment	The Curse of Monkey Island includes a sequence where the main character has to fake his own death (right down to passing out and being buried in a crypt), just so he could inconspicuously come back to life, collect his death certificate, and present it to his life insurance provider to cash in his policy. Amusingly enough, his insurance provider barely even bats an eye at the idea of him coming back from the dead to collect his insurance. He does at least decide to stop selling him life insurance.
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Insurance Fraud / int_d02e8411	comment	Airport features a subplot about a failed businessman who takes out a large flight-insurance policy and plans to blow up the plane with himself on it, so his wife can collect.
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Insurance Fraud / int_d1a3faac	comment	Ajnabee: Vicky is actually a Con Man who specializes in insurance fraud schemes, even faking accidents and injuries in order to get money. His latest and current scheme that drives the plot is to kill his rich wife while pinning her murder on Raj so he can get her life insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_d3ff6961	comment	In the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! episode "Go Away Ghost Ship", the villain (the owner of a shipping line) would dress as Redbeard the Pirate and raid his own ships, both to sell the stolen cargo and collect the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_d6f9b009	comment	The Bolt Chronicles: In "The Murder Mystery," Bolt and his animal accomplices illicitly collect a double-indemnity life insurance payout after murdering The Director.
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Insurance Fraud / int_dad73e07	comment	Mentioned in Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory as something Mike saw in a movie once.
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Insurance Fraud / int_db3b75ff	comment	Barney Miller In one episode a serial arsonist is on the loose. Mr. Kotterman, owner of a liquor store that gets repeatedly robbed, decides to use this as an opportunity to torch his store for the insurance. Unfortunately for him, just as he arrives at the 12th Precinct (to use as his alibi when the fire occurs) he discovers that the arsonist has been caught; so he quickly exits the place in order to stop the fire. In another episode a furrier has one of his trucks hijacked, fills out an insurance report, and looks singularly unenthused when the merchandise is recovered. The thief scoffs at his estimate when caught, calling the furs "worthless". A third episode features a bus crash following a robbery attempt. Of the three witnesses, two refuse to testify while the third, who was injured in the crash, claims to have not seen anything. When further pressed, the "injured" man is discovered to have gotten on the bus after it crashed to claim the insurance money.
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Insurance Fraud / int_dd5c5eed	comment	This occurs several times in The Rockford Files, most notably in one episode where a man fakes his own death and splits the insurance money with his wife before they go their separate ways.
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Insurance Fraud / int_e2c285f	comment	The Glass Inferno, one of the books that was the basis for The Towering Inferno, has designer Ian Douglas convinced his interior design business is about to go under. In desperation, he starts a fire for the insurance only to sober up when he realizes how bad this could become. As fate would have it, an even bigger fire breaks out which Ian realizes will cover up any evidence of what he did but still has to help others trapped in the building. When Ian confesses to his partner/lover what he did, the man laughs it was never necessary as he just finalized a hotel contract that will keep them in business for years.
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Insurance Fraud / int_e5c6748d	comment	The Three Stooges short Hokus Pokus has the Stooges doing anything they can to help neighbor Mary, who's stuck in a wheelchair due to an accident. What they don't know is that Mary is perfectly fine and using these "saps" to fool the insurance company out of a payday. Just as she's being given the payment, the Stooges come flying in from a pole outside, causing a startled Mary to leap out of the wheelchair. As the Stooges gush on her "being cured", the insurance man tears up the check and Mary berates the trio for unwittingly ruining her plan.
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Insurance Fraud / int_e87c1b2f	comment	The comedy movie Short Time revolves around a cop who gets some medical test results mixed up and is told he has a terminal illness. Since he wants his family to have enough money (his greatest dream is that his son gets to go to Harvard), he looks over his policeman's insurance policy...and discovers it only covers "professional damage" (i.e. being killed in the line of duty). And he's only 3 days away from retirement. Hilarity Ensues.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ea4f62db	comment	Happened in Family Guy when the Drunken Clam was sold to a British guy and then mysteriously burned down. The arsonist even frames Peter for this act. Lois even meets the insurance agent after he paid off the policy. Played for laughs more later when the agent learns about the plot, apparently having never heard of the crime before. Played seriously when Mort is in financial trouble with his pharmacy. He, Peter, and Quagmire burn down the pharmacy to collect a large settlement. They spend the rest of the plot feeling guilty and with Joe investigating the cause.
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Family Guy	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_ea4f62db
Insurance Fraud / int_eef69f10	type	Insurance Fraud
Insurance Fraud / int_eef69f10	comment	Sherlock Holmes once made an offhand comment that the most beautiful woman he ever met was hung for poisoning children for their insurance money.
Insurance Fraud / int_eef69f10	featureApplicability	1.0
Insurance Fraud / int_eef69f10	featureConfidence	1.0
Sherlock Holmes	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_eef69f10
Insurance Fraud / int_ef8343f4	type	Insurance Fraud
Insurance Fraud / int_ef8343f4	comment	The Adventures of Shirley Holmes: Ned Crawford is arrested for insurance fraud when a ruby he reported as stolen is found at his home. It turns out the ruby was planted there by a Well-Intentioned Extremist who wants to stop him from exploiting child labor.
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Insurance Fraud / int_ef8343f4	featureConfidence	1.0
The Adventures of Shirley Holmes	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_ef8343f4
Insurance Fraud / int_fc29ccc7	type	Insurance Fraud
Insurance Fraud / int_fc29ccc7	comment	Shows up in an episode of Alfred Hitchcock Presents where a husband and wife fake the wife's sudden disappearance and have her declared dead after seven years to collect the insurance money. Surprisingly Realistic Outcome occurs when the insurance company hires a private eye to investigate the husband on suspicion of foul play, but of course he finds nothing. Unfortunately, just before the deadline and the payout, the wife returns, confessing to having found new love and offering up a substantially lower sum if he'll attest she merely left him. Incensed, the husband kills the wife, burying her in the front garden. The investigator comes along the next day to announce he's calling it quits and congratulate the husband and, in an effort to show bygones are bygones, proceeds to help the horrified husband with planting his roses. The episode ends with the audience left to assume the investigator then found the body.
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Alfred Hitchcock Presents	hasFeature	Insurance Fraud / int_fc29ccc7

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Insurance Fraud	processingCategory2	Artistic License â€“ Law
Insurance Fraud	processingCategory2	Crime and Punishment Tropes
A Mind Switch In Time (Comic Book) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Batman: Black and White (Comic Book) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Invisible Terror (Comic Book) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Ultraverse (Comic Book) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Wonder Woman (Charles Moulton) (Comic Book) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Little Orphan Annie (Comic Strip) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
All Alone (Fanfic) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Conversations with a Cryptid (Fanfic) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Partially Kissed Hero (Fanfic) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Bolt Chronicles (Fanfic) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Bridge (MLP) (Fanfic) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Ajnabee / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Blue Streak / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Deep Rising / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Double Indemnity / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Fatal Instinct / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Five Miles to Midnight / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Free Willy / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
GoodFellas / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
House of Wax (1953) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
In the Mouth of Madness / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Killers of the Flower Moon / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Man on Fire / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Man on Fire (2004) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Pitch (2009) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Small Time Crooks / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Tales from the Crypt / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Accountant (2001) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Baker Street Dozen / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Grand Seduction / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Last Seduction / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Promised Land / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Purge: Survival / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Strawberry Statement / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Towering Inferno / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Titanic (1997) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Vault of Horror / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Perry Mason (Franchise) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
CSI	seeAlso	Insurance Fraud
A Deadly Game of Magic / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Blood on the Stars / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Clue / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Death Star / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Different Seasons / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Discworld / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Dr. Thorndyke / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Encyclopedia Brown / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
On Stranger Tides / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Poirot Investigates / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Boxcar Children / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Colour of Magic / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Little Golden Calf / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Postman Always Rings Twice / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Three Investigators / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Uncomplaining Corpses / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Ukridge / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Zodiac (1988) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Machinima) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
American Dream	seeAlso	Insurance Fraud
The Con / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
TheUltraverse	seeAlso	Insurance Fraud
Africa Salaryman (Manga) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Ana Satsujin (Manga) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Zodiac P.I. (Manga) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Sibylline Sounds (Podcast) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
A Very Secret Service / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Alfred Hitchcock Presents / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Banacek / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Barbara / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Brooklyn Nine-Nine / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Columbo / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Ellery Queen / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
How to Make It in America / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Inspector Koo / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Judge Judy / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Kaleidoscope (2023) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Man vs. Bee / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Midnight Caller / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Motive / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Murder, She Wrote / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Rags to Riches / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Shameless (US) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
ShiningInheritance	seeAlso	Insurance Fraud
The Hardy Boys/Nancy Drew Mysteries / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Munsters / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
2057 / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
What We Do in the Shadows (2019) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Whodunnit? (UK) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Ghosts (Theatre) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Broken Sword: The Serpent's Curse (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Freddi Fish 4: The Case of the Hogfish Rustlers of Briny Gulch (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Hitman 2 (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Jagged Alliance (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Nightmare Circus (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Oddworld (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Starship Titanic (Video Game) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Combine Nation (Web Animation) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Pokémon Rusty (Web Animation) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Red vs. Blue: The Shisno Trilogy (Web Animation) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Marry My Husband / Web Comic / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Best of the Worst (Web Video) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Epic Rap Battles of History (Web Video) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Friendship is Witchcraft (Web Video) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Tank Fish (Web Video) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
The Fox and the Crow / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Woody Woodpecker / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud
Shameless (UK) / int_df968cf	type	Insurance Fraud

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