[Comments on simulation and experts. A contribution from forensic practice]

The report deals with an insurant (private accident and health insurance), who succeeded in deceiving the university hospital of his mothertown for a long time and in a cost intensive way after he had an alleged concussion followed by an extreme, consecutive decline of his ability to see. The malingerer finally processed some documents, which forced the person inchange in case of a high percentage of disability to pay a sum insured of about one million DM or more. In the practice of an expert it was possible to find him guilty in a simple and cheap way.