Employee Dishonesty Protection would have covered these losses:

Description of Event:

The head of accounting of a technology firm approved payments to several vendors with made-up names that sounded like actual vendors that the company had contracts with. For example, he approved invoices for ABC Company, a legitimate consulting firm doing work for the firm, as well as for ABC Inc., a phony consulting firm he had concocted. After more than two years, an accounting clerk on his staff noticed a slight difference in names and the scheme was uncovered. It turned out that the perpetrator had been funding a gambling habit.

Resolution:

The accounting head approved false invoices totaling more than $650,000.

Description of Event:

The payroll clerk for a waste management firm added several relatives to the payroll. He faithfully deposited paychecks into the phony employees’ bank accounts for nearly three years before he left the company and the new payroll clerk discovered the scheme.

Resolution:

The company determined that the crooked clerk had made phony payroll payments totaling more than $300,000 to his relatives.

Description of Event:

A local retailer had a “no questions asked” return policy, whereby customers could return unwanted or faulty merchandise without a sales receipt. The policy was popular among customers and helped the store gain considerable word-of-mouth advertising. The retailer’s bookkeeper, a longtime employee, took advantage of the policy by systematically altering the books to show “dummy” returns and paying herself cash, always being careful not to exceed actual returns by more than three to five percent. When the bookkeeper died unexpectedly, the fraud was discovered by the new bookkeeper.

Resolution:

The trusted bookkeeper managed to skim more than $100,000 from the store over eight years.