Auto glass company owner charged with theft in $1.5 million insurance-fraud case
Updated: 2010-07-30 23:56:00
: skip to main skip to sidebar Pages Home Our mission : consumer protection Insurance Consumer Hotline Friday , July 30, 2010 Auto glass company owner charged with theft in 1.5 million insurance-fraud case A Burien , Wash . nbsp auto glass company owner has been charged with three counts of first-degree theft for a billing scheme that’s believed to have cost insurers more than 1.5 million . Charges against Michael Alan Perkins , 43, were filed Thursday in King County Superior Court . Perkins is the owner of Autoglass Express Inc . and Premier Auto Glass , LLC . which are run out of Perkins’ Burien home . The glass shops are suspected of overbilling State Farm , Allstate and MetLife insurance companies . An investigation by the state insurance commissioner’s office found 4,840 instances in