Asteron starts review after fraud

Rotorua woman Mary-Rose Ponce Caldero faked her death in 2015 and posed as someone else to claim $800,000 from the insurer, with whom she had a policy in her maiden name.

The next year, she took out another policy with Pinnacle Life, again with her maiden name, for $1 million.

Her mother was listed as the beneficiary. She tried to claim the next month, saying she had died of a heart attack.

Also in 2016, she took another policy for AA Life in another name and tried again to claim. The second two claims were flagged as fraudulent and policy began to investigate.