Insurance agent arrested again
Published: Mon, Aug. 18, 2008 10:38AM
Modified Mon, Aug. 18, 2008 02:33PM
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closeThe owner of an insurance agency was arrested again by state Department of Insurance investigators on Friday.
Mary Grantham Hicks was charged with 10 counts of obtaining property by false pretenses. That's on top of the one count of embezzlement and one count of obtaining property by false pretenses charges on which she was arrested Aug. 4.
Hicks, 58, of 7608 Blaney Franks Road, Apex, is the owner of Swift Creek Insurance and Realty.
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Investigators say that after Hicks arrest two weeks ago, more witnesses came forward and new evidence suggests Hicks continued to collect premiums for fraudulent workers' compensation policies.
Hicks was a licensed insurance agent providing workers' compensation coverage for local commercial construction contractors and subcontractors. In at least one case, she is accused of taking payment from a client but failing to remit that payment to the insurance company. Instead, investigators said, she falsified a certificate of insurance and presented that as proof of coverage.
An employee with the client company later suffered an accident in which another victim made a claim against the workers compensation policy. At this point the client company realized the insurance was fraudulent, and the Department of Insurance was notified.
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