All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2015 // Five Cincinnati-area residents have been indicted on multiple counts of alleged insurance fraud for filing a significant number of false insurance claims in 2014 totaling approximately $85,000, the Ohio Department of...
Mar 3 2015 // A New Jersey congressman is asking for the resignation of Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator W. Craig Fugate and an immediate investigation into FEMA after reports that FEMA was aware of allegedly...
Mar 3 2015 // Offering monetary incentives does not necessarily influence whistleblowing behavior and might even discourage internal reporting, according to new research.Researchers at North Carolina State University and Bucknell...
Mar 3 2015 // If anyone attending the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week doubts how easy it is to hack smartphones and tablets, Filip Chytry and his team plan to set them straight. By hacking into their devices.Chytry’s...
Mar 3 2015 // The U.S. Secret Service says “skimming,” a cybercrime which targets automatic teller machines and gasoline pumps and the people who use them, is on the rise in the Charlotte, N.C., area.The Charlotte Observer...
Mar 2 2015 // The head of Federal Emergency Management Agency’s (FEMA) flood insurance program acknowledged he has seen evidence of fraudulent engineering reports that may have been used to deny flood claims by Superstorm Sandy...
Mar 2 2015 // Uber Technologies Inc. said its database was access by an unauthorized third party last year, resulting in the possible theft of information on 50,000 drivers.The drivers, who are part of Uber’s mobile car-booking...
Feb 26 2015 // Employees who report illegal activity in insurance, banking and financial services would be protected and compensated for their trouble under new legislation proposed by New York State Attorney General Eric...
Feb 26 2015 // A former northern New Jersey mayor has admitted making false statements to police and an insurance company in a bid to cover up a hit-and-run accident. Former Roselle Mayor Garrett Smith pleaded guilty Tuesday to insurance...
Feb 26 2015 // Medical identity theft jumped 22 percent last year as more U.S. health data becomes electronic and easier for cyber criminals to steal from doctors’ offices, hospitals and insurers.Incidents of medical identity theft...
Feb 25 2015 // Three Central Florida arrests were made by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud for the operation of an unlicensed clinic in Orlando that was used as part of a personal injury protection (PIP) fraud scheme, according to...
Feb 23 2015 // New Jersey’s U.S. senators want the state attorney general’s office to investigate possible fraud by insurance companies following Superstorm Sandy.Sens. Robert Menendez and Cory Booker asked Acting Attorney...
Feb 23 2015 // North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory took some heat after saying in his annual State of the State address earlier this month that nearly half of workers’ compensation claims paid to state employees are the result of abuse...
Feb 23 2015 // Anthem Data Breach“The personally identifiable information apparently hacked at Anthem is exactly what tax fraud thieves use to make false refund claims that appear to be legitimate.” —Kevin Sullivan,...
Feb 23 2015 // A new study estimates that fraud and claim “build-up” add between $5.6 billion and $7.7 billion in excess payments to auto injury claims paid in the United States.The excess payments represented between 13...
Feb 20 2015 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies has presented its State Legislator of the Year Award to Minnesota state Sen. James Metzen.NAMIC said it honored Metzen for his support of free-market principles and...
Feb 20 2015 // Duke Energy expects to pay $100 million to settle an ongoing federal criminal investigation that began after a massive coal ash spill at a North Carolina plant.The details are contained in an earnings report filed with the...
Feb 19 2015 // A bill filed in the Illinois House would form a new task force to address thefts of recyclable metals, including copper.The Belleville News-Democrat reports the panel would review efforts to combat theft and come up with...
Feb 17 2015 // She bought draperies flecked with Swarovski crystals.The ceiling mural at her “Gone with the Wind”-inspired mansion in Doylestown, Pennsylvania, featured her family in robes, gazing down from the heavens. And...
Feb 12 2015 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced nine arrests were made last month for personal injury protection (PIP) fraud in Miami. Charged in eight separate cases involving seven staged accidents, the...