tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12974391450558855192012-02-16T02:05:37.869-08:00The Consumer Equalizerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390201977153218308noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297439145055885519.post-5690686987972255452009-12-26T08:17:00.000-08:002009-12-26T08:19:09.415-08:00<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Ex-Allstate Employee Sentenced for Mail Fraud</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">May 29, 2009, Associated Press</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">A federal judge in Birmingham has sentenced a former <span style="font-weight: bold;">Allstate Insurance Company</span> employee to 12 months in prison for multiple counts of mail fraud. U.S. District Judge Inge Johnson sentenced 34-year-old <span style="font-weight: bold;">Monica Marshall</span> of Brighton Thursday. Marshall pleaded guilty to 11 counts of mail fraud.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Prosecutors said she admitted arranging to send more than $43,000 in reimbursement checks to three individuals who then paid her a kickback. Three others involved in the fraud pleaded guilty to felony conspiracy charges. Marshall, who must report to prison in Aug., was ordered to repay the money to Allstate.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">Does anyone know if she was a company “hero”?</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1297439145055885519-569068698797225545?l=allstatewatch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Consumer Equalizerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390201977153218308noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1297439145055885519.post-63499656476455160122009-12-23T07:59:00.000-08:002009-12-23T08:01:00.893-08:00<span style="font-family: trebuchet ms;">To the poster that is thinking of starting a <span style="font-weight: bold;">scratch agency</span>. Run like your butt is on fire. You can’t make it with <span style="font-weight: bold;">Allstate</span> today as a <span style="font-weight: bold;">scratch agent</span>. Unless, you have enough money to live on for 5 years and take nothing from your business during that time. Otherwise buy an existing book and see if the current agent will finance. RFG, executive advantage, and co-op and geared to help the larger offices and harm the smaller agencies.<br /><br />TC wants you to fund their success. You open scratch and dump your life savings in to write as much as you can example: friends, family etc. They will raise rates causing you to loose customers and new business and when you are out of money they will be glad to boot you take your policies for TPP and then sell them or give them to the larger agents. RUN!!!</span><div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1297439145055885519-6349965647645516012?l=allstatewatch.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>The Consumer Equalizerhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05390201977153218308noreply@blogger.com0