National Union pursues $465,000 recovery after AAA Club employee theft

National Union Fire Insurance Company of Pittsburgh, Pa., as subrogee of AAA Club Alliance Inc., has filed a civil complaint in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Ohio, targeting former AAA travel agent Michelle Ireland. The insurer alleges that Ireland, while employed at AAA’s Port Clinton, Ohio, location, orchestrated a scheme from 2019 through May 12, 2023, to collect cash payments from AAA customers for travel and vacations and retain those funds for her own personal benefit. To conceal her theft, Ireland used payments from other customers to fund the travel and vacation expenses of the customers from whom she stole, in a Ponzi scheme-like manner. She also issued unauthorized and unapproved AAA gift certificates and used them for the same purpose.