South Florida Man Accused of Car Insurance Fraud

March 20, 2014

A Weston man is accused of bilking insurance companies out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by filing claims based on details contained in accident reports from traffic accidents involving unsuspecting drivers and other consumers who never received claims payments, according to a press release issued by the Florida Department of Financial Services.

David M. Glincher has been charged with 25 counts of insurance fraud, 22 counts of grand theft, 19 counts of uttering forged instruments, and 1 count of aggravated white collar crime.

Total theft is estimated at almost $300,000, according to the announcement. The widespread scheme involved 270 victims.

Auto Loss Claim Consultants, LLC, a Florida business owned by Glincher, was used to obtain copies of crash reports. Glincher allegedly then sent fliers to victims, urging them to file “diminished-value” insurance claims. “Diminished-value” claims allow victims to recover the difference between a car’s value before the accident and after repairs have been made.

Even when people did not contact him to complete the claim forms, Glincher used information from the accident reports to file the claims and had the checks sent to him at his business, typically netting a few thousand dollars per claim.

An insurer reported Glincher after it received five suspicious claims, and an investigation revealed that Glincher had forged 19 signatures in order to file “diminished-value” claims for other people’s traffic accidents without them knowing it.

“Insurance fraud drives up costs for all Floridians, and we will not allow it to continue,” said Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater.

Glincher is now free on $29,500 bond after being booked into the Broward County Jail. He faces up to 30 years in prison.