All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jun 20 2016 // An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for insurance fraud, the state attorney general’s office reported.LaTroy Staglin was sentenced after being convicted on nine felony counts of submitting a...
Jun 20 2016 // A North Carolina man has been arrested on numerous insurance fraud-related charges, according to a statement from the North Carolina Department of Insurance (NCDOI). Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of...
Jun 20 2016 // John Antonio Ruiz, 49, of Riverside, Calif., pleaded guilty earlier this month to 11 felony counts of grand theft after selling $334,972 in bogus surety bonds and stealing the client’s premium.His theft left a major...
Jun 17 2016 // A grand jury has indicted a tractor-trailer driver and his employer accused of causing a fiery interstate crash that killed five Georgia Southern University nursing students.The Bryan County grand jury on Wednesday...
Jun 17 2016 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday imposed some limits on the kind of fraud claims that can be brought against federal contractors in a case involving a suit against one of America’s largest hospital operators over a...
Jun 15 2016 // A Washington physician faces charges in connection with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Washington Department of Insurance.Dr. Jian Xu, 59, faces felony charges in King County Superior Court of...
Jun 13 2016 // The United States Attorney for the Central District announced on Monday that former California State Sen. Ronald S. Calderon has agreed to plead guilty to a federal corruption charge.Calderon admitted in a plea agreement...
Jun 13 2016 // An Oklahoma man has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for insurance fraud.Oklahoma Attorney General Scott Pruitt announced that LaTroy Staglin was sentenced after being convicted on nine felony counts of submitting a...
Jun 13 2016 // New York’s highest court ruled on June 9 that Bank of America must disclose to an insurer communications it had with Countrywide Financial six months before the bank bought the mortgage lending company in 2008. The...