After Li Shuangjun finished presenting the Litigation Application.
At the judges' bench, in the presiding judge's seat.
Du Linmu briefly reviewed the Litigation Applications of all three parties, then looked toward the appellant's seats.
"Appellant."
"The prosecution and the respondent have both made statements regarding your Litigation Application."
"We will now address the first point: whether He Dongsheng committed insurance fraud. Please present your defense of his innocence in support of your appeal to overturn the first-instance judgment. You may begin."
"Yes, Your Honor."
An insurance fraud case.
The most crucial point in this kind of case was the party's subjective intent.
And how that subjective intent was determined.
Its core was similar to that of fraud.
Both involved the intent to unlawfully possess property, though their specific forms differed.
Su Bai nodded slightly, placed his prepared materials and evidence on the table, and began his statement.
"The circumstances constituting insurance fraud broadly fall into the following categories."
"First, a policyholder deliberately fabricates the insured subject matter to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits."
"Second, a policyholder, insured person, or beneficiary fabricates the cause of an insured event or exaggerates the extent of the loss to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits."
"Third, a policyholder, insured person, or beneficiary fabricates an insured event that never occurred to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits."
"Fourth, a policyholder or insured person deliberately causes an insured event involving property damage to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits."
"Fifth, a policyholder or beneficiary deliberately causes the death, disability, or illness of the insured person to fraudulently obtain insurance benefits."
"Those are the five forms and specific circumstances of insurance fraud."
"In this case, both the policyholder and the insured person were our client, He Dongsheng, while the beneficiary was our client's mother."
"The first-instance judgment relied on the fifth category."
"In other