All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 5 2024 // Insurer GEICO has been dealt a setback in its efforts to get back $2.3 million in what it alleges were fraudulent medical and chiropractic service charges it paid to several clinics under New Jersey’s no-fault...
Jan 4 2024 // New York Attorney General Letitia James announced the arrest and arraignment of a New Jersey man for allegedly stealing more than $1 million that was intended to be paid to doctors who provided medical care to injured...
Jan 4 2024 // The head of a Tampa-area labor supplier has been sentenced to 12 months in prison after she pleaded guilty to defrauding the IRS and workers’ compensation insurers out of millions of dollars.A federal judge in Tampa...
Jan 4 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.A licensed life insurance agent went door-to-door, posing as a Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) employee. According to consumer complaints that the...
Jan 2 2024 // About 10% of property/casualty insurance losses can be traced to fraud, according to the industry’s Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Insurance Journal publishes an average of 22 fraud stories a month. Insurance...
Jan 2 2024 // After an Allstate Insurance investigation alleged that a well-known Florida pain clinic had conspired with an injury law firm and had fraudulently billed the auto insurer for unnecessary surgeries and risky procedures,...
Dec 27 2023 // California sued the Ralphs supermarket chain, alleging that it violated state law by asking job-seekers whether they had criminal records and illegally rejecting hundreds of applicants.The California Civil Rights...
Dec 27 2023 // Delaware’s largest hospital system will pay more than $47 million to settle whistleblower allegations by its former compliance officer that it provided kickbacks to outside doctors in return for patient referrals,...
Dec 26 2023 // Georgia authorities were searching for an Atlanta-area landscaper who has been charged with falsely claiming that one of his commercial-grade lawnmowers had been stolen, then collecting $19,000 from his insurance...
Dec 21 2023 // INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – An Indianapolis-based health network has agreed to pay the government $345 million to resolve charges it defrauded Medicare by overpaying doctors who referred patients to its facilities, prosecutors...
Dec 19 2023 // A New Jersey man has pleaded guilty to orchestrating a $60-$70 million fraud targeting no-fault automobile insurance companies in New York.U.S. Attorney Damian Williams reported that Bradley Pierre of Closter, New Jersey,...
Dec 18 2023 // Law enforcement officials announced the final sentencing in their prosecution of an $18 million workers’ compensation fraud case and the return of $7.75 million to the New York State Insurance Fund (NYSIF).Manhattan...
Dec 14 2023 // Vehicle theft rates continue to put pressure on the personal auto insurance market.CCC Intelligent Solutions said in its year-end report that the number of vehicle thefts in the U.S. increased 2% in the first half of 2023...
Dec 13 2023 // A former North Carolina insurance agent who pleaded guilty to defrauding trucking company clients and a premium finance company of hundreds of thousands of dollars cannot challenge her sentence and restitution order, a...
Dec 12 2023 // An Iowa bail bondsman has pled guilty to insurance fraud and identity theft.David Mark Ellis of Spring Hill, Iowa, pled guilty in Polk County District Court to two counts of Identity Theft (Aggravated Misdemeanors) and one...
Dec 12 2023 // Insurance company GEICO has filed suit against a New York pharmacy and five medical clinics and their owners alleging they perpetrated a fraudulent scheme under the New York no-fault auto insurance system by submitting...
Dec 12 2023 // Somali reporter Abdalle Ahmed Mumin was doubly distressed when he heard that a colleague had been abducted by masked gunmen at the University of Mogadishu on the morning of Aug. 17.A fellow journalist was missing and Mumin...
Dec 12 2023 // Auburn, Massachusetts police report they recovered 16 cars within 36 hours of them being stolen from a local auto rental business.Three Boston men have been charged with receiving a stolen motor vehicle and other charges....
Dec 11 2023 // Former President Donald Trump returned to his civil fraud trial last Thursday to spotlight his defense, renewing his complaints that the case is baseless and heaping praise on an accounting professor`s testimony that...
Dec 8 2023 // JACKSONVILLE, Fla. (AP) — A former financial manager for the Jacksonville Jaguars has been accused of stealing more than $22 million from the franchise through its virtual credit card program between 2019 and 2023,...