Ascertainment of the Place of Torts in the Fraud During Insurance Contracting on the Party of the Insureds —Take the Property Damage Compensation of an Insurance Company and an Engineering Company for Example
In cases where the insurer is defrauded by the applicant and suffers property losses due to the insurance liability after the insured is exposed, the applicant’s insurance fraud can be regarded as an infringement, and when the insurer claims tort liability against the applicant, such dispute shall be under the jurisdiction of the people’s court at the place of the infringement or the defendant’s domicile. The place of tort includes the place where the tort is committed and the place where the tort results occur. The tort in this case is a joint tort, which consists of tampering with and providing a false policy and insurance fraud. The infringement result has already occurred at the time of underwriting by the insurer, and the insurer’s payment of insurance compensation is not the direct result of the infringement. Therefore, the insurer’s domicile is not the result of the insurance fraud when claiming tort damages for the loss. The people’s court in the place of the insurer’s domicile is not the people’s court in the place of the infringement and has no jurisdiction over such disputes.