Former Idaho Insurance Investigators Sue Department of Insurance, Others

A lawsuit filed by former Idaho insurance investigators says they were forced out of the Idaho Department of Insurance for turning over information to the feds during an investigation into an eastern Idaho insurance company for fraud, the Idaho Statesman daily newspaper is reporting.

The newspaper said the lawsuit was filed Wednesday by Tom Arkoosh with Capitol Law Group on behalf of W. Robert Lemke, Jan Heinz, Carol Garrett and Felicia Kruck. They are suing the State Department of Insurance, Director William Deal, a former state legislator, former Deputy Director Shad Priest and others.

The insurance company that was under investigation was not named in the suit. It was referred to only as “Company X” in the documents, according to the report in the Statesman.