Massachusetts Repair Shop Owner Charged with Insurance Fraud

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If you’ve been one of the many people concerned about the alarming amount of fraud in the auto insurance industry, you can rest a little bit easier this week, because a man from Massachusetts who was alleged to have collected more than $28,000 in fraudulent insurance claims for repairs done at automotive and glass companies that he owned has been arraigned on charges of fraud and larceny.

According to investigators, Robert Giller of Swampscott, MA, who is the President and Owner of Advanced Automotive Concepts in Peabody, MA, and treasurer of its affiliate, New England Glass Co., was the mastermind behind an arrangement that included faking invoices and other paperwork, then submitting them to insurers in order to receive payment for work that was never actually performed.

The state’s attorney general says that Mr. Giller is facing twenty counts of insurance fraud, eighteen counts of larceny, and two counts of attempted larceny.