| News News Archive  Email A Friend
April 19, 2024
Workers Compensation Bill 2024: One percent of employee’s salary to contribute to workers’ compensation fund in Kenya. April 15, 2024
Colorado Worker Shows Head Injury Happened as a Consequence of a Knock on the Head at Work April 4, 2024
Callfornia Division of Workers' Compensation Pharmacy and Therapeutics Committee Meeting Scheduled for April 17, 2024 April 3, 2024
California Division of Workers' Compensation Posts Adjustments to Official Medical Fee Schedule (DMEPOS)
| | Claims Adjuster, Fariborz Romero Rahrovi, Guilty of Fraud In Cahoots With Lawyer to Cheat Claimant
By Barry Zalma, CFE, Attorney At Law - December 1, 2014
Fariborz Romeo Rahrovi, 40, a former Nationwide Insurance claims associate pled guilty in King County Superior Court in Washington to two counts of theft, criminal conspiracy, and money laundering related to the theft of an accident victim's $525,000 insurance settlement.
Rahrovi is scheduled to be sentenced on December 19th 2014 in King County Superior Court. He faces up to 12 months in prison.
Rahrovi was charged after an investigation by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler's Special Investigations Unit. Rahrovi allegedly worked in cahoots with Seattle private law attorney, Edward Joseph Callow, who represented the victim. Nationwide paid Callow's client a $25,000 advance and a $500,000 settlement in 2010. Callow allegedly altered documents to show his client that Nationwide paid a $250,000 settlement, of which the client agreed to pay 33 percent in attorney's fees.
Ultimately, Callow paid his client $165,000, roughly one-third of the total settlement, according to the investigation.
Rahrovi pocketed $135,000 for his role in the scam, according to court documents. Callow kept the remaining $225,000.
Nationwide fired Rahrovi in November 2012. Rahrovi was charged in December 2013 and pled not guilty to the charges in January 2014. Callow pled guilty to five felonies and in August was sentenced to 24 months in prison and ordered to pay $167,500 in restitution to the victim. Callow has been in jail since March, when he was detained after fleeing to Taiwan in December 2013 following charges being filed.
Barry Zalma is an insurance coverage attorney, consultant, and expert witness. As a California attorney, Mr. Zalma limits his practice to transactional, rather than litigation, counsel concerning insurance coverage matters, mainly representing insurers and those in the business of insurance. Mr. Zalma was licensed to practice law in 1972 and has operated his own firm since 1979. He is admitted to practice before all California courts, California U.S. District Courts and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He has qualified as an expert in various state and federal courts across the U.S. and the British Cayman Islands.
Barry Zalma practices law as the Law Offices of Barry Zalma, Inc., 4441 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City CA 90230; phone 310-390-4455, fax: 310-391-5614, email: zalma@zalma.com. If you need an insurance claims handling, insurance coverage or insurance bad faith consultant and expert, contact Barry Zalma at Zalma Insurance Consultants using the aforementioned contact information.
Published by adjustercom with permission.
|
__May11th2017.gif)
.gif)