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 A Sully woman has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in an attempt to help her teenage son, who had been driving uninsured. Jasper County District Court documents state 47-year-old Antonia Leah Maddison intended to defraud Progressive Northern Insurance Company by applying for insurance on her son and his vehicle, after he had an accident. The accident occurred on February 24th of last year, and  the Iowa Insurance Fraud Bureau says Maddison added her son and his vehicle to her insurance policy four days later, in an attempt to obtain coverage for his accident. The Bureau filed the class D felony charge on September 12th, 2024. District Associate Judge Steven Holwerda accepted Maddison’s guilty plea, and set her sentencing hearing for April 22nd.