Insurance broker suspended for one month and reprimanded for submitting false health claims to employer's benefits plan.
The Licensee, a registered insurance broker, pled guilty to professional misconduct for submitting 39 false health claims totaling $4,799.47 under her employer's group benefits plan.
The Discipline Committee accepted an Agreed Statement of Facts and a Joint Submission on Penalty.
The Committee found the Licensee guilty of failing to act with integrity and ordered a reprimand, a one-month suspension, and the completion of three hours of ethics education, noting her early admission of guilt and arrangement to repay the insurer as mitigating factors.