All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 15 2016 // Escalating a political fight over global warming, a Republican House chairman issued subpoenas this week to two Democratic state attorneys general, seeking records about their investigation into whether Exxon Mobil misled...
Jul 14 2016 // Police in Tuscaloosa say several young men broke into a gun store and stole between 10 and 30 guns.Police Capt. Brad Mason tells the Tuscaloosa News the break-in happened early in the morning on July 12. Mason said the men...
Jul 12 2016 // A Milford, Massachusetts man has been indicted on larceny and workers’ compensation fraud charges in connection with allegedly collecting more than $18,000 in disability benefits while he continued to work, according...
Jul 11 2016 // Authorities are investigating after they say someone stole a $135,000 yacht in Orange Beach, Ala.Police say the 42-foot Sea Ray called “Tide Runner” was taken from the Wharf Marina. WKRG-TV says the incident...
Jul 11 2016 // Healthcare organizations contain a wealth of personal information, making them them the number one target for cyber breaches, according to a Houston-based attorney who specializes in healthcare privacy.Lynn Sessions, a...
Jul 11 2016 // Robert Meseer, 63, of Westminster, was arrested last month by California Department of Insurance investigators on 32 felony counts of grand theft, insurance fraud, and forgery after acting as an insurance agent to...
Jul 8 2016 // A Georgia prosecutor says he’s dropped the criminal case against a trucking company charged in a deadly interstate crash last year that killed five nursing students.Tom Durden is district attorney for southeast...
Jul 6 2016 // An Evansville, Ind., man has been sentenced to more than 91/2 years in prison for paying people to stage car crashes to defraud insurance companies.U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young sentenced 57-year-old Michael W....
Jul 5 2016 // A veteran Las Vegas police K-9 officer has been indicted on felony charges alleging he burned his recreational vehicle trailer in January for the insurance money.State Attorney General Adam Laxalt said last week the...
Jul 5 2016 // A woman in Broward County, Fla., will spend four years in federal prison after pleading guilty to possessing more than 600 stolen identities that were used to steal tax returns and in fraud. Laveisha Dorray Charles-Coldros...
Jul 1 2016 // GEICO has sued five Florida companies and six known individuals engaged in what it said was a complex scheme to submit hundreds of suspected fraudulent glass repair bills for payment. In the case, Government Employees...
Jun 29 2016 // Police are looking for two Lexington, Ky., men charged with stealing guitars from music stores. The Lexington Herald-Leader reports arrest warrants have been issued for 37-year-old Jeremiah Hager and 35-year-old Jerason L....
Jun 28 2016 // Ironshore’s Pembroke Managing Agency Limited has updated its Financial Institutions Crime program to include cyber fraud and cyber extortion. Pembroke’s crime coverage for Financial Institutions indemnifies a...
Jun 27 2016 // As businesses spend billions of dollars a year trying to protect their data from hacking that’s costing trillions, they face another threat closer to home: data theft by their own employees.That’s one of the...
Jun 24 2016 // Robert Meseer, 63, of Westminster, was arrested by California Department of Insurance investigators on 32 felony counts of grand theft, insurance fraud, and forgery after acting as an insurance agent to allegedly steal...
Jun 23 2016 // A mystery is brewing in Atlanta, where someone stole an ocean of beer.A brewery in the city says nearly 3,300 cases of beer went missing when two of its refrigerated trailers were stolen. SweetWater Brewing Co. said the...
Jun 23 2016 // A multi-agency undercover workers’ compensation sting in Polk County, Fla., led by the Florida Department of Financial Services’ (DFS) Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), led to the arrests of eight individuals,...
Jun 22 2016 // Irvine, CA, June 22, 2016- Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI) has announced the addition of Brian Wiggins to their Special Investigations Unit (SIU) Division. ISI is a national field adjusting and investigation company...
Jun 22 2016 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI) has accused a mother and daughter of insurance fraud, according to a statement from the department. Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests June 15 of...
Jun 20 2016 // Fraudsters are more often caught by tip-offs and complaints, management review, accidentally, suspicious superiors and internal audits than by use of technology and data analytics.According to consulting firm KPMG, North...