All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2015 // Florida CFO and State Fire Marshal Jeff Atwater, alongside Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez Rundle, has made more than 30 arrests during the second wave of a collaborative state and local operation known as...
May 20 2015 // The Insurance Council of Texas has joined the Tomball Police Department in a crime prevention campaign aimed at preventing auto thefts and burglaries.The program involves the creation and distribution of signs that read,...
May 20 2015 // Berkshire Hathaway Specialty Insurance (BHSI) has introduced a crime protection policy along with a new executive impersonation coverage endorsement for large public and private companies in Canada.“Designed by BHSI...
May 19 2015 // Berkley Crime, a division of Berkley FinSecure, a W. R. Berkley company, has launched a new Investment Company Policy (ICP). The ICP is specifically designed to provide crime-related insurance coverage for registered...
May 18 2015 // Anthony Riste, 45, and Brandy Riste, 22, both of Los Angeles, Calif., were arrested on two felony counts of insurance fraud after they allegedly conspired with Bobby Vlado, 40, to defraud Alliance United Insurance Co. out...
May 18 2015 // As Duke Energy pleaded guilty Thursday in a North Carolina courtroom to nine criminal violations of the federal Clean Water Act, federal prosecutors recounted examples where time and again the nation’s largest...
May 18 2015 // Authorities say personal information on 900 Los Angeles County mental health patients was stolen but it’s unclear if any of it was misused for ID theft.Documents with Social Security numbers, birth dates, medical and...
May 14 2015 // Eight Broward County, Fla., residents have been arrested for PIP (personal injury protection) fraud after an investigation by the Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud revealed the individuals...
May 13 2015 // Following an investigation into a complaint received from the Shreveport City Attorney’s Office, the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit charged a firefighter with insurance fraud.Michael Keel...
May 11 2015 // A Dallas homebuilder has been sentenced to two years in prison for insurance fraud over false reports of more than $250,000 in materials stolen.Edward Adrian Abraham operated under the name of Park Cities Development Inc....
May 11 2015 // Two people have pleaded guilty in connection with a central Kentucky bourbon theft ring.Franklin County Assistant Commonwealth’s Attorney Zach Becker told The State Journal that Michael Shaun Ballard and Ronnie Lee...
May 8 2015 // Louisiana State Police say a two month investigation into insurance fraud and auto theft has led to the arrest of 34 people across the state.Troopers say in a news release its Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft unit...
May 7 2015 // New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie signed into law on Thursday A-3905/S-2680, which authorizes motor vehicle operators to display proof of auto insurance in either the physical format (a paper insurance card provided by their...
May 6 2015 // A California officer faces insurance fraud charges after authorities say a video showed her participating in an ice-bucket challenge despite claiming she had a back injury.Los Angeles County prosecutors say a video posted...
May 6 2015 // Wells Fargo Bank could be writing a big check after the city of Los Angeles filed a lawsuit over unfair practices in which employees opened unauthorized accounts for customers, sticking them with fees and damaging their...
May 4 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud has arrested Roxana Suarez La Rosa on charges related to PIP (personal injury protection) fraud. In 2012, the Saint Jose Injury Center in...
May 4 2015 // More and more drivers are making it easy for thieves. A new report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) has found an increasing number of thefts of vehicles with the keys left inside.For the years 2012 through...
May 1 2015 // Authorities say personal information on 900 Los Angeles County mental health patients was stolen but it’s unclear if any of it was misused for ID theft.The Los Angeles Times reported documents with Social Security...
May 1 2015 // Attorney General Loretta Lynch this week urged greater cooperation between the government and private industry to combat computer hackers, a key component of a new cyber- attack playbook released by the Justice...
Apr 28 2015 // The owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana Dispensary in Palmdale, Calif., were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud.Tiffany Shorter, 26, and Jabe Satterfield, 77, failed to carry...