Sahara Reporters
The management of an insurance corporation, Leadway Assurance Company has denied defrauding an Abuja-based man, Jolayemi Woleola.
Woleola had accused the insurance corporation of fraud involving over multi-million naira claims on his damaged vehicle.
He described the attitude and disposition of the company to his insurance claim as appalling, disappointing, annoying and frustrating.
“I entered into a vehicle insurance contract with Leadway covering my Mercedes Benz E 300 2017 model. The insured car was involved in an accident with a trailer on Kubwa express in Abuja on 23/07/2021,” he had told Sahara Reporters.
“I presented my claim to Leadway after relevant documents like the police report were issued. The Leadway insurance has maliciously refused to reinstate me to the position I was in prior to the accident.
“Leadway has been coming up with excuses including outright lies to refuse the fulfilment of their obligation towards me.
“Leadway started from questioning the veracity of an accident which threatened my life to outright lies of claiming to visit the hospital where I was treated of bleeding and being told no patient was treated on that day to twisting outright glaring facts as to the value of the vehicle prior to insuring same.”
Reacting in a letter signed by its Head of Legal Services Department, Sunday Oroleke to Sahara Reporters, the company said it was shocked by the allegation of “fraudulent intent” made by Woleola and thereby rebutted it.
Leadway said the insured rejected a settlement offer of N3,711,955.09 and demanded N13,443,982.77 for a vehicle he claimed to have bought for N15,000,000.00.
The letter read, “Our attention has been brought to a publication by Sahara Reporters regarding an allegation by one of our customers, Mr. Jolayemi Woleola (insured), that we fraudulently denied his motor vehicle insurance claim.
