All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 12 2015 // Alejandro Altamirano from Durango, Mexico, has called New Mexico home for a dozen years, and it’s where his two U.S.-born daughters are being raised. But the 36-year-old dairy farmworker fears he will be forced into...
Feb 12 2015 // Anthem Inc. said on Wednesday its millions of customers can sign up for free credit monitoring and identity-theft protection services this week following a massive cyber attack involving stolen U.S. Social Security...
Feb 11 2015 // Nova Healthcare Management, headquartered in Houston, Texas, entered a plea of guilty to felony workers’ compensation fraud related charges, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Co. and the Travis...
Feb 11 2015 // Los Angeles, Calif.-based Farmers Insurance Exchange has reached a settlement in a lawsuit involving alleged billing fraud by two radiological companies and their owners. The complaint alleges that two radiological...
Feb 11 2015 // Lieutenant Governor and Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced Ohio’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2014 investigated by the Ohio Department of Insurance.During the calendar year, the department processed...
Feb 10 2015 // New Jersey authorities announced that a married couple who own several temporary staffing companies with offices in northern and central New Jersey were arrested on first-degree charges.According to a Feb. 4 announcement...
Feb 9 2015 // The former CEO of a now-defunct trucking company that left its employees stranded all over the country when it suddenly shut down in December 2009 has pleaded guilty in federal court in Oklahoma to charges of tax evasion...
Feb 9 2015 // Gov. Pat McCrory is taking heat after saying in his annual State of the State address last week that nearly half of workers’ compensation claims paid to state employees are the result of abuse or fraud.“We all...
Feb 9 2015 // A driver rockets his $1 million Bugatti into a salty lagoon … Two kids perish in a home insurance arson their own mother set … A cancer doctor pumps healthy patients with toxic chemotherapy in a $125 million...
Feb 4 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 4 2015 // Allstate Insurance Co. agreed to settle a 2011 lawsuit accusing Morgan Stanley of fraud over more than $100 million worth of mortgage-backed securities in which the insurer invested.The largest publicly traded U.S. home...
Feb 4 2015 // Fraud cases are on the rise and the profile of fraudsters is changing to include more young individuals seeking to fund extravagant lifestyles, according to ACE Group.As pressure on bank balances grows after the...
Feb 3 2015 // An Upland, Calif. man has pleaded guilty to federal bank fraud and tax charges in relation to a loan scam that reportedly netted him more than $5.9 million.Derek Richard Brewart, 53, a former licensed insurance agent and...
Feb 2 2015 // Authorities are investigating the theft of 30 bronze vases from a Norman cemetery, and officials say more than 200 other vases have been stolen recently in central Oklahoma.Cleveland County Sheriff Joe Lester told the...
Feb 2 2015 // A Gwinnett County, Ga. man convicted on charges including insurance fraud has been sentenced to serve five years in prison. According to Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, 56-year-old Ronald Alan Dunn of Loganville was...
Jan 30 2015 // Ex-American International Group Inc. Chairman Maurice “Hank” Greenberg said New York’s pursuit of him through a decade-old fraud suit is a waste of taxpayer money, as the two sides prepare for a trial...
Jan 29 2015 // Detectives from the California Department of Insurance’s insurance fraud enforcement division arrested 15 Los Angeles area residents Thursday morning for allegedly staging auto collisions and filing more than...
Jan 28 2015 // When a 300-year-old Stradivarius violin valued at more than $5 million was stolen from Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Frank Almond last year, investigators initially believed the theft may have been the work of...
Jan 26 2015 // A San Antonio-based deputy U.S. marshal has pleaded guilty to wire fraud relating to an insurance fraud scheme. According to a statement from the U.S. Attorney’s office, Reynaldo Gonzalez entered his plea in San...
Jan 26 2015 // The number of property crimes and violent crimes reported for the first six months of 2014 was down from the first six months of 2013, according to statistics from the FBI.The report, based on information from 11,009 law...