All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 10 2016 // A lawsuit has been filed against Swedish Medical Center, alleging the Denver, Colo.-area hospital was negligent in hiring a surgery technician who put thousands of patients at risk of being exposed to HIV and hepatitis.The...
Mar 9 2016 // Anti-corruption prosecutors have charged one of Romania’s richest businessmen with money laundering and abusing his position as a chief executive of a leading insurance company. The anti-corruption prosecutors’...
Mar 7 2016 // The owner of a Sacramento, Calif. construction company has pleaded guilty to tax evasion and workers’ comp insurance fraud.The Sacramento Bee reported that 47-year-old William Alan Huffman entered his plea last week...
Mar 7 2016 // Florida’s Citizens Launches Campaign to Combat Abuse ClaimsCitizens Property Insurance Corp. has launched a multi-faceted education campaign in an attempt to combat what it has called a disturbing increase of fraud...
Mar 4 2016 // Verisk Analytics, a data analytics provider, has formed an alliance between its CargoNet business and the Florida Trucking Association (FTA) to help members reduce cargo theft risk and lobby for stricter penalties and more...
Mar 4 2016 // Authorities said a Wilmington, Massachusetts man has been indicted in connection with allegedly failing to accurately report the nature of his company’s work in order to avoid $120,000 in insurance...
Mar 4 2016 // Two high-profile Texas attorneys were sued by a fishing boat captain who said they were involved in a scam to cheat BP Plc out of millions of dollars with false compensation claims for the Gulf of Mexico oil...
Feb 26 2016 // The South Carolina Revenue Department’s massive 2012 data breach gave Gov. Nikki Haley a firsthand lesson on the need for efforts to counter cybercrime, she said Wednesday.“Today, there is never a day I...
Feb 26 2016 // An Indianapolis man was convicted of murder, arson and insurance fraud on Feb. 24 for his role in a 2012 house explosion that killed two neighbors and devastated a subdivision in the southern part of the city.A northern...
Feb 26 2016 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s administration issued a statement this week reminding insurance agents, contractors and other interested parties in the state that the new certificates of insurance law will take...
Feb 25 2016 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrests of five Wilmington women in connection with an alleged staged auto accident ring. Investigators allege that over the course of three separate...
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...