Jimmy Patronis announces arrests of 4 in faked accident insurance benefits scheme
An attempted insurance fraud — a crime helping to fuel Florida’s position as the state with the third-highest average car insurance rates in the country — got four men a free ride to the Miami-Dade County lock-up.
Bryan Carlos Hernandez, Elvis Fonseca Lauzao, Juan Fonseca Lauzao and Rusland Rivero Tellez, were charged May 22 with various felonies, according to the Office of the Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis. Those felonies include grand theft, organized fraud, false insurance claims and setting up a staged accident for the purpose of insurance fraud.
The four exploited personal injury protection (PIP) benefits of their insurance policies, billing Progressive Insurance and National G...
