All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 18 2014 // The Insurance Fraud Enforcement Department (IFED) will continue to play a key role in tackling insurance fraud after members of the Association of British Insurers (ABI) committed to invest £11.7 million [$19.423 million]...
Mar 17 2014 // A resident of New Orleans, La., is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to multiple arson-for-insurance fraud schemesAnthony R. Thomas had been charged with multiple criminal counts for his involvement in a 2007...
Mar 17 2014 // A former police officer has been sentenced to serve 10 days of weekend imprisonment and three years of supervised probation in an auto insurance fraud case, according to Sanford C. Coats, U.S. Attorney for the Western...
Mar 13 2014 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) announced this week that the reporting of insurance fraud in Pennsylvania increased to an all-time record-high in 2013.Reporting jumped by 9 percent to 3,582...
Mar 13 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced Wednesday the arrest of Tenquisha Shancaza Durham of Gastonia, N.C. She was charged with one count each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
Mar 12 2014 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Howard Douglas Whiddon of Dripping Springs pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges in a Travis County district court. The court sentenced Whiddon to 10...
Mar 12 2014 // The three major companies in Louisiana offering coverage through the federal insurance exchange have agreed to continue to accept premium payments through Nov. 15 from a program that helps HIV/AIDS patients cover their...
Mar 12 2014 // The Catholic Archdiocese of Seattle says some employees and volunteers may be victims of national tax refund fraud because of a data breach.The Seattle Times reported that the archdiocese posted a notice about the problem...
Mar 12 2014 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin announced the arrest of Stacy Lasondo Jackson of Jacksonville, Fla.. She has been charged with 10 counts each of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false...
Mar 11 2014 // New company, N.J.-based ID360, has been formed to offer comprehensive investigative and recovery services to identity theft victims. The company is comprised of recovery specialists and a national network of former...
Mar 7 2014 // Three former executives at Dewey & LeBoeuf LLP, once the No. 3 legal adviser to banks handling merger deals, were charged with a “blatant” $200 million fraud that spurred the largest law firm bankruptcy in...
Mar 6 2014 // Jurors acquitted an Iowa pharmacist of health care fraud, rejecting allegations that he fraudulently billed Iowa’s largest health insurance company for life-saving drugs sent to hemophilia patients.The federal jury...
Mar 6 2014 // The Superstorm Sandy fraud task force in Monmouth County, N.J., has closed its office in the county’s Bayshore region.In the year since opening, the task force has reviewed 232 cases. About 92 cases were referred to...
Mar 5 2014 // Trial has begun in federal court in Las Vegas for a 49-year-old senior Clark County human resources analyst accused of conspiring with a dead former judge to steal $824,000 from an auto insurance company.The Las Vegas...
Mar 4 2014 // A western New York man says he’s been wrongly accused of faking a disability to obtain $9,000 a month in veterans’ and workers’ compensation benefits.Federal prosecutors in western New York announced...
Mar 4 2014 // San Diego, Calif. (03/04/14) – Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI), a National multi-line field adjusting and investigation company specializing in uncovering fraudulent insurance claims, has promoted Tim Cloney to...
Mar 3 2014 // IronPro, the U.S. professional and management liability unit of Ironshore Inc., is entering the fidelity & crime insurance market with product capacity limits available of up to $30 million. Kevin Finn has been named...
Mar 3 2014 // Former Democratic Tennessee state Sen. Eric Stewart has pleaded guilty to a theft charge.Media reports said Stewart agreed last Thursday to the judicial diversion plea in Franklin County Circuit Court. Originally, he had...
Feb 28 2014 // A 32-year-old Gulfport woman has been ordered confined at home and must repay $17,000 in an oil spill fraud case.Sheila Wilbanks, spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s Southern District office, told The Sun Herald that...
Feb 28 2014 // A quarter-century after the U.S. Supreme Court opened the era of class action shareholder litigation, the justices may be poised to shut it down.The court will hear arguments March 5 on a Halliburton Co. appeal targeting...