All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 24 2016 // An attorney for a French woman who sued the University of Oklahoma over a painting that the Nazis stole from her family says a settlement has been reached and that the university will return the painting to her.New York...
Feb 23 2016 // Authorities said a former New York City police officer has been sentenced to two to six years in state prison for a scheme to defraud auto insurance companies.New York Attorney General Eric T. Schneiderman announced the...
Feb 23 2016 // An Arkansas insurance agent has been charged with fraud and ordered to pay $127,748.06 in restitution.The Arkansas Insurance Department revoked the resident producer’s license of Samuel Bowron Phillips of Fort Smith...
Feb 23 2016 // A Sheridan, Wyo. man accused of collecting disability payments while working for a tree service company has entered a no contest plea to one count of workers’ compensation fraud.The Sheridan Press reported that...
Feb 22 2016 // A northern Illinois county purchasing director allegedly spent more than $60,000 on personal items, according to a draft of an insurance claim Winnebago County plans to file. The Rockford Register Star reports the claim...
Feb 22 2016 // Investigating officers from the Alabama Department of Insurance, Fire Marshal and Fraud Divisions announced the arrests of four suspects for allegedly staging structure fires, automobile accidents, vandalism, and personal...
Feb 19 2016 // Aviva detected fraud in almost 2,200 commercial motor policies in 2015, using various anti-fraud tools, the London-based insurer revealed. But the company is taking its fight against fraud to a new level — by...
Feb 19 2016 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), which operates under the direction of Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, announced the arrest of William David Rodeffer III of Folkston, Ga. Rodeffer allegedly accepted...
Feb 9 2016 // Authorities announced that a North Jersey doctor has been indicted for allegedly billing numerous insurance carriers for medical procedures he did not perform himself or that were not performed at all.New Jersey Acting...
Feb 9 2016 // A northern Illinois county purchasing director allegedly spent more than $60,000 on personal items, according to a draft of an insurance claim Winnebago County plans to file. The Rockford Register Star reports the claim...
Feb 8 2016 // Police in a southwest Ohio city are warning residents of an increase in vehicle thefts.The Dayton Daily News reports Dayton Sgt. John Riegel says many car theft victims who left their vehicles running. He says it’s...
Feb 8 2016 // Foreign sovereign wealth funds are not automatically immune from U.S. lawsuits claiming that they defrauded investors into buying securities in the United States by making misleading statements outside the country, the...
Feb 8 2016 // Investigating officers from the Alabama Department of Insurance, Fire Marshal and Fraud Divisions announced the arrests of four suspects for allegedly staging structure fires, automobile accidents, vandalism, and personal...
Feb 8 2016 // Utah-man Navid Monjazeb faces 22 counts of insurance fraud, reckless endangerment, and other crimes spanning five years and at least 23 known accidents – with the same three vehicles.Charges resulting from a months-long...
Feb 5 2016 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce & Insurance (TDCI) announced disciplinary actions against three former Tennessee licensees for the intentional misrepresentation of policy terms, forgery, and the use of fraudulent...
Feb 4 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens announced the arrests of six Colquitt County residents and a Clayton County woman involved in a staged insurance fraud ring. A joint investigation by Hudgens’ Insurance...
Feb 2 2016 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens and the Roswell Police Department announced the arrest of a Fulton County woman on multiple counts of insurance fraud and other charges.Rommys Alemania Beltran, 45, of Roswell,...
Feb 1 2016 // A Long Island, New York, man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a $35 million fraud that a judge said wrecked investors’ lives.Mikhail Zemlyansky, 39, was led out of a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, Jan. 28, in...
Jan 28 2016 // An investigation into what’s being called one of the largest cases of workers’ compensation health care insurance fraud in California Department of Insurance history led to 13 indictments announced today...
Jan 28 2016 // East St. Louis, Illinois and Camden, New Jersey rank first and second in an annual ranking of the country’s most dangerous cities.New Orleans ((70), Philadelphia (65), Miami (63), Washington, D.C. (35) and Baltimore...