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For Immediate Release:  
For Further Information:
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December 15, 2006  
Peter Aseltine
609-292-4791

Office of The Attorney General
- Stuart Rabner, Attorney General
Division on Criminal Justice
- Gregory A. Paw, Director
Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
- Greta Gooden Brown, Insurance Fraud Prosecutor

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Former Hudson County Auto Body Shop Owner Sentenced for Insurance Fraud Scam
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TRENTON - Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Division of Criminal Justice Director Gregory A. Paw announced that a former Hudson County Auto Body shop owner was sentenced today for attempting to steal more than $9,000 by filing fraudulent insurance claims.

According to Insurance Fraud Prosecutor Greta Gooden Brown, Louis Rivadeneira, 69, of West New York, was sentenced to one year probation and was ordered to pay $9,800 in restitution by Superior Court Judge Fred J. Theemling Jr. in Hudson County. The sentence follows Rivadeneira’s Oct. 19 guilty plea to third-degree attempted theft by deception.

In pleading guilty, Rivadeneira, the former owner and operator of Louis & Sons Auto Body on Kennedy Boulevard in West New York, also known as Louis’ Boulevard Auto Body, admitted that between May 2000 and August 2003, he inflated auto body repair claims he submitted to Allstate Insurance Company and United Services Automobile Association. An investigation by the Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor determined that Rivadeneira caused additional damage to cars he received for repairs so he could inflate the insurance claims. He also billed USAA for replacement parts in instances when he repaired the original parts and never purchased new ones.

State Investigator Jose Vendas and Deputy Attorney General Nicole D. Rizzolo handled the case.

Prosecutor Brown noted that some important cases have started with anonymous tips. People who are concerned about insurance cheating and have information about a fraud can report it anonymously by calling the toll-free hotline 1-877-55-FRAUD or visiting the Web at www.NJInsuranceFraud.org. State regulations permit an award to be paid to an eligible person who provides information that leads to an arrest, prosecution and conviction for insurance fraud.

The Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor was established by the Automobile Insurance Cost Reduction Act of 1998. The office is the centralized state agency that investigates and prosecutes both civil and criminal insurance fraud, as well as Medicaid fraud.

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