All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 7 2017 // Attorneys for nine patients have filed a lawsuit against Iowa Methodist Medical Center, blaming the hospital for a pharmacy tech’s theft of potent painkillers from hundreds of vials.The lawsuit accuses the hospital...
Feb 3 2017 // The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced a major auto insurance fraud ring takedown, which was operating in San Diego County.Nine defendants were...
Feb 3 2017 // Federal authorities have charged 104 people with numerous identity theft and fraud offenses in the latest South Florida crackdown on a rampant problem involving tens of thousands of stolen personal identities.The charges...
Feb 2 2017 // Police in Greensboro, N.C., say more than 50 guns were stolen from a gun show over the weekend.Police said in a release Monday security guards reported the theft Sunday before the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show opened....
Jan 25 2017 // A former employee of a Connecticut real estate management and development business has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than $700,000 from the company.Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Debra...
Jan 25 2017 // Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor said Tuscarawas County resident Tiffany Frame has been sentenced to two years of community control supervision and ordered to complete 250 hours of community service for committing insurance...
Jan 24 2017 // Rock-shattered windshields are such a common occurrence on Arizona roads that insurance companies have long been required to replace broken glass for free to drivers with full coverage policies.It ends up being a big...
Jan 24 2017 // An investigation into possible wildlife violations uncovered unrelated insurance fraud evidence that led to a recent criminal conviction in Kansas.Lawrence E. Payne, Overland Park, was sentenced Dec. 6, 2016, to serve 30...
Jan 24 2017 // A former executive with Pittsburgh-based health care giant UPMC has admitted he stole nearly $850,000 from the company by arranging to hire his wife and a friend as ghost workers.Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Ronald...
Jan 23 2017 // New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses employing people...
Jan 19 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has stayed more than 200,000 liens worth a combined claim value of more than $1 billion that are linked to 75 medical providers facing criminal fraud charges.The...
Jan 17 2017 // Officials at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles say a laptop stolen from a physician’s car last year may have contained personal health information for nearly 3,600 patients.The Los Angeles Daily News reported...
Jan 13 2017 // A Fort Smith, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for defrauding insurance customers, federal authorities say.Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the...
Jan 13 2017 // A woman whose job it was to make change for cashiers at UAB Hospital dining areas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after she was accused of stealing $1.1 million.Al.com reports that Kyejuana Avery was also ordered...
Jan 11 2017 // Volkswagen AG confirmed on Tuesday it has negotiated a $4.3 billion draft settlement with U.S. regulators to resolve its diesel emissions troubles and plans to plead guilty to criminal misconduct.The guilty plea is part of...
Jan 10 2017 // Morrison Mahoney has hired 13 attorneys, including 5 partners and 8 associates, to the firm’s New York office. The group will be based in New York and provide service across all of Morrison Mahoney’s 10...
Jan 9 2017 // The California Department of Industrial Relations released its 2016 Legislative Digest, which summarizes new laws that impact workers and employers.Most of the chaptered bills took effect on Jan. 1. Highlights of those new...
Jan 5 2017 // The group that orchestrated the theft of over $2 million from cash machines at Taiwan’s First Commercial Bank in July was also behind an ATM hacking spree in more than a dozen European nations last year, according to...
Jan 3 2017 // A Gainesville, Texas, clinic owner has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud and was ordered to repay $1 million after an investigation by the Texas Department of Insurance found that he billed for chiropractic services...
Jan 3 2017 // New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses employing people...