Fired Salesman Faces Insurance Fraud Charges Man Accused Of Renewing Policies After His Dismissal

A 36-year-old Post Falls man faces fraud charges for allegedly renewing insurance policies while posing as a salesman for a Spokane Valley company after he had been fired.

Prosecutors believe Todd H. DuBois pocketed nearly $1,400 in payments made for those policies, according to court records. He was being held Tuesday in the Kootenai County Jail on six counts of insurance fraud. Bail was set at $20,000.

DuBois also was arrested on two counts of contempt of court for allegedly failing to pay nearly $1,200 in fines for drunken driving and driving without privileges convictions, according to court records.

Pennsylvania Life Insurance customers began complaining to the company in August that they had not received service or policies for their payments, according to a Coeur d’Alene police report. Charging papers filed in 1st District Court accuse DuBois of cashing checks written to him by six people he allegedly signed up for fraudulent policies.

Among the people allegedly bilked out of money was a 77-year-old Coeur d’Alene woman who wrote DuBois a check for $183 and a Post Falls woman who lost $285. Another man lost $344.

DuBois tried unsuccessfully to cash a seventh check written by a woman to Penn Life by writing in his name as a payee, according to court records.

The victims told the company that DuBois had either renewed their policies or started a new one, a police report said. DuBois then allegedly requested customers write checks to him as payment.

Penn Life officials told prosecutors they did not receive payment for any of the transactions DuBois allegedly made after he was fired and his license revoked, according to court records. Those policies were either started or renewed between July 14 and Aug. 24.

, DataTimes