Tangled Web, Redux

Why am I not surprised by this:

�Ohio�s sixth-largest school district says it was a victim of fraud resulting from secret commissions that its health-insurance company paid to a broker in return for delivering the district�s business.�

As Yogi Berra once observed, �it�s d�j� vu all over again.� Two weeks ago, it was United HealthCare and a Columbus area broker named Grady.

Today, it�s UHC and a Columbus area broker named Fritz Neuhart; once again, a rather ordinary web-site and a nondescript agency name. Nothing to indicate that Mr Neuhart had (allegedly) pocketed a cool $1 million in fees and commissions. Kinda makes a piker out of poor Mr Grady.

For now, the Department of Insurance is mum on this, although they�re "aware of the situation."

So far, that�s two school districts caught up in similar webs. I wonder how many other superintendents are even now rifling through their insurance files, trying to determine if they, too, have been stung.