In January last year, the man was referred for investigation for a serious cancer diagnosis.
He is now accused of having given incorrect information when he entered into an insurance contract the day before the investigation of the serious diagnosis.
According to the indictment, he took out two insurance policies:
- “Critical illness – Financial first aid”, which entitles to a one-time payment of 250,000 kroner
- “Disability as a result of critical illness”, which in the case of cancer diagnoses gives the right to compensation of up to one million kroner.
IF Skadeforsikring has reported the man.
Denies criminal guilt
On Thursday next week, the man must appear in Møre og Romsdal District Court, charged with insurance fraud.
The indictment, which has been taken out by the Public Prosecutors in Møre og Romsdal, states that the prosecuting authority believes that the man deliberately did not state that there was a specific suspicion that he had cancer.
– He denies criminal guilt after the indictment, says the man’s defender, lawyer Roy Peder Kulblik.
The defender confirms that the man has undergone treatment for a serious cancer.
– He states that at this time he did not understand that he should be investigated for a serious cancer suspicion, says Kublik.
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With regard to the actual circumstances of the indictment, the defense counsel does not completely agree with the prosecuting authority.
– The insurance was actually taken out earlier, but the health information that he had to provide in connection with the conclusion of the agreement was given the day before the report, he says.
– Difficult situation
Police attorney Sandra Grøtta Krakeli is leading the case before the prosecution. She says that this is a somewhat unusual case for the police.
– It is not often that we get reviews on personal insurance, as in this case. There are far more non-life insurance cases, says the police attorney.
Apart from the fact that she can also state that the man denies criminal guilt, Grøtta Krakeli does not want to comment on this case until it has been up in court.
The defender says that an important issue in court will be his client’s difficult life situation at the time the agreement was entered into.
What the man understood about his own state of health and not, will be central.
Today, the man is recovered after successful treatment for the diagnosis. Until he was diagnosed, he must have been “healthy and fast all his life”.
The court has set aside a day for processing the case, on Thursday next week.
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