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03/31/2023
Tolland Man Charged with Insurance Fraud and Larceny
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
(Rocky Hill, CT) - A Tolland man has been arrested and charged with submitting a fraudulent $175,000 crumbling foundations insurance claim through the Connecticut Insurance Department.
William L. Sima, age 42, of Babcock Road, Tolland, was arrested on March 29, 2023 by Inspectors from the Statewide Prosecution Bureau in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney at the Rocky Hill Police Department on a warrant charging him with Insurance Fraud, in violation of Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-215 and Criminal Attempt to Commit Larceny in the First Degree/Defrauding a Public Community, in violation of Connecticut General Statutes § 53a-122(a)(4).
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, the Division of Criminal Justice received a complaint in July 2022 from the Connecticut Insurance Department’s Fraud and Investigations Unit regarding an attempted theft from the taxpayer-funded Connecticut Foundations Solutions Indemnity Company, Inc., the non-profit insurance company that assists Connecticut homeowners with crumbling foundations.
Insurance Department investigators reported that Sima on January 14, 2020, submitted a false insurance claim in an attempt to receive $175,000 for a crumbling foundations repair on his Babcock Road home. The arrest warrant affidavit states that Sima was untruthful in his claim application, indicating that he had not done any foundation repair work at his home when he, in fact, had completed the project himself instead of hiring a contractor from a state-approved list.
Sima was released on a $20,000 non-surety bond and is scheduled to appear in Rockville Superior Court, G.A. No. 19, on April 5, 2023. The charges are merely accusations and Sima is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The Statewide Prosecution Bureau is prosecuting the case.