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Plant City insurance agent facing new charges

 
Published Nov. 18, 2014

Paula Albertson, 53

Insurance agent faces additional charges

A Plant City insurance agent who was accused in September of stealing more than $200,000 in claims faces new charges after more people reported she had stolen from them, authorities said.

Paula Kampf Albertson, 53, who operated Albertson Financial Group, convinced at least three clients to reinvest annuities by signing over checks to her, according to arrest reports. They lost a collective total of more than $200,000.

The new cases mirror allegations in the September case against Albertson. In that case, Albertson named her husband and stepson as the beneficiaries on a client's life insurance policy, authorities said. When the client died weeks later, the family collected more than $150,000, authorities said.

After her arrest, Albertson admitted keeping one client's money and offered to sell assets to pay the client back, per an arrest report.

On Monday, she was arrested on three additional grand theft charges and booked in the Hillsborough County jail. She was later released on $30,000 bail.