Liverpool Crown Court has ordered a former
RSA claims handler to pay back £37,000 after he was found guilty of fraud and of illegally passing customer data to another company.
Anthony Francis Joseph Rattigan, 31, had admitted to adding friends and family to genuine insurance claims that he handled and to passing on customer details to a law firm. He was convicted of two counts of fraud by abuse of position and two counts of money laundering.
In May, Rattigan was sentenced to 10 months of imprisonment for fraud. He will serve an additional nine months if he fails to pay back RSA.
Rattigan was responsible for handling motor insurance claims at RSA, where internal fraud investigators initially uncovered his fraudulent activities.
According to the police, Rattigan falsely listed his partner, brothers-in-law and various other friends and family members as injured passengers in genuine claims so that they would receive payouts.
Eight such claims were identified, with insurance payouts of over £29,000 in costs and compensation to the false claimants and solicitors.
Rattigan also passed on the claims and customer information to a law firm which in turn gave him referral payments amounting to £25,500.
After his arrest in August 2014, Rattigan confessed that he convinced his friends and relatives to take part in the fraud. All of them had admitted that they received payouts.
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