Former Georgia insurance broker gets four years in prison for national trucking cargo insurance fraud scheme

John Paul Kill, the former operator of Appeal Insurance Agency LLC, was sentenced Tuesday to four years in prison for illegally collecting more than $3.7 million from nearly 800 trucking companies through selling/brokering fictitious cargo insurance policies. Kill, 63, operated an insurance brokerage firm, Appeal Insurance Agency in Norcross, Ga. and began offering cargo insurance policies to trucking companies in 2013. Kill falsely represented to clients that he would bind cargo insurance policies…