All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 18 2013 // A Washington County, Mississippi man has been charged with three counts of insurance fraud involving property claims. Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release that 31-year-old Oliver Johnson of Greenville was being...
Sep 16 2013 // The FBI estimates that in 2012, the number of violent crimes increased 0.7 percent while property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively.The 2012 statistics show...
Sep 13 2013 // One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year.The survey by FICO, a predictive...
Sep 12 2013 // The Iowa Insurance Division has launched a new anti-fraud program to help Iowans protect their money.The program is called Iowa Fraud Fighters – Shield Your Savings. It comes in response to a wave of new cons targeting...
Sep 11 2013 // A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud.Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s...
Sep 11 2013 // Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, has added a new cyber crime protection endorsement to its technology privacy cyber portfolio. The cyber crime coverage option provides additional protection against growing...
Sep 11 2013 // The U.K.’s Serious Organised Crime Agency refused to reveal the names of law firms and insurance companies that may have hired convicted private investigators who illegally gained information.SOCA declined to publish...
Sep 9 2013 // A Depression-era program intended to save the nation’s farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st- century crutch enabling affluent growers and financial institutions to thrive at U.S. taxpayer expense.Federal crop...
Sep 9 2013 // Fur coats, diamonds and Rolex watches were among hundreds of items once owned by a pair of Wausau, Wis., insurance executives that have been auctioned off to pay for their multimillion-dollar fraud scheme.Federal agents...
Sep 9 2013 // A Cleveland, Ohio, man has been sentenced after a jury convicted him of failing to maintain workers’ compensation coverage for his business.Donald L. “Donnie” Schilling, owner of Cleveland Tire &...
Sep 6 2013 // New Jersey authorities said three New Jersey men have been charged with engaging in a scheme to submit fraudulent cell phone loss claims to Asurion Insurance Services.The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said...
Sep 5 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that a licensed insurance adjuster, Jennifer Marez, 35, of San Antonio has pleaded no contest to a second-degree felony of theft of $100,000 to $200,000.As a condition of the plea...
Sep 5 2013 // Tire and rim thefts are increasing sharply in Detroit, Mich., according to Help Eliminate Auto Thefts (H.E.A.T.) and the American Car Rental Association (ACRA).H.E.A.T. is Michigan’s statewide auto theft prevention...
Sep 5 2013 // The UK-based maritime intelligence provider, Dryad Maritime, has issued a report – Special Advisory, The West Africa Problem; Mission Not Impossible -, which focuses on the rapidly evolving nature of maritime crime...
Sep 4 2013 // Standard & Poor’s said on Tuesday the U.S. government filed a $5 billion fraud lawsuit against it in “retaliation” for its 2011 decision to strip the country of its “AAA” credit rating.The...
Aug 30 2013 // Prosecutors in North Dakota have dropped insurance fraud charges against a McIntosh County man who pleaded guilty to animal abuse charges, after authorities say he submitted a claim saying more than 100 of his cattle died...
Aug 28 2013 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin recently announced the arrests of Johnny Ball, 49, and Joni Ball, 49, of Pink Hill on charges of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense. Department of...
Aug 26 2013 // The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it will give students free insurance against identity theft after an accidental privacy breach.Last week, UMMC mistakenly sent about 190 people an email that had a...
Aug 22 2013 // A former Virginia insurance agent, who also owned her own insurance agency in Cumberland County, Va., will spend the next five years on supervised probation after pleading guilty to felony charges. She will also pay more...
Aug 21 2013 // Nearly 6,900 firearms were reported stolen or lost in Ohio last year, ranking it sixth among states with the most missing guns, federal data shows.The lion’s share of those were listed as stolen; 78 were reported...