WARREN TOWNSHIP, NJ (Somerset County) – A Somerset County man has been arrested in relation to acts of insurance fraud, according to Somerset County Prosecutor John P. McDonald.
Rajinder S. Randhawa, 36, of Warren Township was charged with third-degree insurance fraud.
The New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor notified the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office Special Investigations Unit of an alleged insurance fraud being committed by a fuel delivery trucking company who was misrepresenting their garaging location on a commercial auto policy application, McDonald said.
During a preliminary audit, an insurance company investigator determined that the eight trucks belonging to the trucking company were listed as being garaged in Bridgewater according to the company’s July 2023 commercial auto insurance policy application, however the trucks were located at a location in Linden, McDonald said.
A further investigation indicated that the eight trucks belonging to the fuel delivery company were being kept at a location located in Linden and not in Bridgewater Township as indicated to the insurance company, McDonald said.
By stating the trucks were being garaged in Bridgewater instead of Linden on the insurance application, Rajinder Randhawa, the purchaser of the insurance policy, paid a much lower premium on the policy, McDonald said.
The difference in the premium between what was paid and what would have been owed to the insurance company in a six-month time frame was approximately $231,431, McDonald said.
Randhawa was arrested without incident at the Somerset County Prosecutor’s Office on Thursday, May 9. He was then charged and released pending a court appearance, McDonald said.
