Saturday, April 27, 2013

Spanish man chops off his hand to claim £1.77m insurance...

A Spanish man has chopped off his hand in an attempt to claim €2.1 million (£1.77m) from a slew of insurance companies.

The unnamed man told 11 different firms that he had lost his hand in a car crash. But fraud investigators became suspicious when they discovered that the man's hand was too cleanly severed to be the result of an accident.

"There were various things that did not add up," said Jose Luis Nieto, president of Spanish accident investigators Gesterec. "In this particular case he claimed that the hand was lost when his car ran off the road and slid down the embankment, but we demonstrated that the angle of his turn and the speed of the car would not have produced that kind of result. In addition, the hand was cut too cleanly, without affecting the bone, which is something almost impossible in traffic accidents."

 Mr Nieto described the claim as "one of the most memorable" last year: a 12-month period in which almost 150,000 investigations of suspicious claims were carried out – a rise of 11.9 per cent on 2011. In a similar case last year a man from Valencia cut off his arm above the elbow and claimed €600,000, saying that he had had an accident with an electric saw. Full story...

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