A Salem insurance agent has had her licence revoked for fraud and other illegal activities, according to the state Division of Financial Regulation.
She was also fined $11,000.
According to a press release, Tricia Klock was convicted of four counts of identity theft for using the personal identification of her victims for her own use.
Klock has been the owner of Tina Klock Agency, an insurance agency, in Salem since 2013 and the owner of Prestige Travel Agency since 2017, according to her LinkedIn profile.
The DFR said she misrepresented herself as an insurance agent by telling an insurance investigator that coverage had increased prior to an accident, falsely representing that an insurance policy had full coverage for all vehicles in a family, increasing coverage for a family’s vehicles after learning of a car accident, telling a customer that payments would be applied to insurance premiums, and lying about full coverage on an auto policy.
She was indicted in Marion County Court in 2021 for using the identities of several people to obtain credit cards.
She pleaded no contest to four counts of identity theft in 2022, received 18 months probation and agreed not to be a fiduciary as part of her plea agreement.
As a travel agent, she was accused of stealing clients’ money by not booking trips for which she was paid through her travel agency, according to the DFR.
