Safelite Sued for Insurance Fraud in California

The New Year probably didn’t start the way Safelite officials expected. On Jan. 5, Safelite Group Inc., Safelite AutoGlass (SAG) and Safelite Solutions LLC (SSL) were sued for insurance fraud by a former employee for himself and on behalf of the people of California.

Former SAG product development and strategy manager Brian Williams alleges the company billed insurers for OEM or aftermarket moldings but used neither, instead using less expensive universal moldings rather than part-specific ones.

‘Given Safelite’s knowledge that its technicians use universal moldings instead of part-specific moldings, but the insurance companies’ requirement that replacement parts either be OEM or aftermarket parts, Safelite concocted a scheme to get paid insurance rates still regardless of the part selected by its technicians,’ says the complaint filed in Superior Court of the State of California.