P. v. Williams CA4/1
Defendant Alyce J. Williams pleaded guilty to making a false statement in support of an insurance claim. Pursuant to the plea agreement, the court dismissed the other count of presenting a false motor vehicle claim, and ordered her to serve three years of summary probation and pay victim restitution, including to Farmers Insurance (Farmers) in an amount to be determined.
At an evidentiary hearing to determine if Farmers was owed victim restitution, respondent the People presented evidence of a cost model employed by Farmers in which the company, on the one hand, used an average investigator's annual salary, benefits, company car expenses, administrative costs and travel expenses, which number, on the other hand, it then divided by 126, the average number of claims each of its investigators annually investigated.
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