Fraud for law students?
Two students who were taking a holiday in Brazil have essentially been found that they were lying when they stated that they were robbed on a Brazilian bus. They have been arrested for insurance fraud as they were said to have claimed that over £1000 worth of their belongings had been taken away from them. However when officers searched the two girls hostel in Rio de Janeiro it was found that the items they had claimed to be missing were actually in their lockers all along.
They have stated that they were in fact robbed but had simply got what they were robbed from them wrong which can of course happen.
Although the morale of the story seems to be not to lie it does teach an important lesson and that is that you should always have insurance when you go away.
If in fact they had not been lying they would have successfully been able to get back their money for the items taking proving that laptop insurance and travel insurance does actually come in handy when you use it for the right reason
s rather than for personal gain. Whether or not they were telling the truth is unknown.
So at least this story will persuade more people to get out travel insurance as you now know for sure that it works. However they could have been telling the truth as having something taken away from you is a very traumatic experience and it is by no means easy to remember things well in a situation like this.
Of course if you are not looking to go away this year a look into your home insurance could be what you need. Some of these do not actually cover you from many things which is why you might need to be looking into home emergency insurance.
The real main thing to remember is that if you are going to claim on the laptop insurance do not lie cause it will be checked out!
