WOBURN (CBS) — 44-year-old Adam Haddad, an auto physique store proprietor from Shrewsbury, pled responsible and was sentenced to serve two and a half years in jail on Wednesday for damaging automobiles to get more cash out of insurance coverage firms.
Haddad, who owned ADH Collison of Boston Inc. in Everett and Correct Collision Inc. in Worcester, pled responsible in Middlesex Superior Court docket to 42 expenses, together with motorized vehicle insurance coverage fraud, tried larceny and malicious destruction of property.
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Massachusetts Legal professional Common Healey says frequently Haddad took a buyer’s automotive and broken it additional earlier than drawing up his restore quotes. In whole, Haddad stole $170,000 from 11 totally different insurance coverage firms.
“This defendant took sledgehammers and mallets to his clients’ automobiles so he might jack up the price of repairs, invoice insurance coverage firms, and make off with a whole bunch of hundreds of {dollars},” Healey mentioned in a press launch.
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In 2017, the Massachusetts Insurance coverage Fraud Bureau began an investigation into Haddad’s companies. The investigation later revealed that Haddad both enhanced damages or induced new damages to a buyer’s automobiles with a purpose to “falsely inflate appraisal restore quotes for labor, paint, and elements reimbursement requests”.
Haddad made extra money by pocketing the insurance coverage cash whereas additionally, in a number of cases, not finishing the required repairs on his clients’ automobiles.
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Investigators found surveillance footage from the placement of certainly one of Haddad’s companies that confirmed him utilizing sledgehammers, mallets and items of wooden to deliberately create harm to 5 automobiles.
