All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 5 2013 // Almost of a third of American homeowners who have anti-theft devices on their homes don’t use them – even during the summer when burglars are at their busiest.A survey commissioned by Nationwide Insurance found...
Aug 5 2013 // The Maryland Insurance Administration issued on July 23 its first administrative orders under newly granted authority to pursue civil cases of insurance fraud. The authority took effect last October following passage of...
Aug 5 2013 // Industry estimates put personal auto insurance fraud at about 10 percent of paid losses and loss adjustment expenses a year. That equates to roughly $13.3 billion in 2011 alone. And the overall trends don’t appear...
Aug 2 2013 // A Travis County, Texas grand jury has indicted Mark Edward Helm and McClanahan Drywall Inc., of Emory, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Helm was an officer of McClanahan Drywall Inc. and obtained...
Aug 1 2013 // Federal prosecutors in Chicago have announced Northwestern University has agreed to pay nearly $3 million to settle a whistleblower’s lawsuit involving alleged cancer research fraud.The lawsuit claimed the university...
Aug 1 2013 // A former Marshalltown, Iowa insurance agent has been indicted on federal mail fraud charges after being accused of defrauding customers for nearly a decade.The Marshalltown Times-Republican reported that 65-year-old...
Jul 31 2013 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski is offering tips to shoppers to help them make educated choices and avoid scams when purchasing auto insurance online.Commissioner Kobylowski said...
Jul 30 2013 // Rick Gregory has been selected as director of the Special Investigations Department (SID) at the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Gregory will oversee 123 employees who work to deter, detect, investigate...
Jul 25 2013 // True-crime author Ann Rule is suing a weekly Seattle newspaper, saying she was defamed in 2011 when the fiance of a convicted killer wrote a lengthy article accusing her of “sloppy storytelling.”The lawsuit,...
Jul 25 2013 // Carnival Corp., Royal Caribbean Ltd. and Norwegian Cruise Line Holdings Ltd., the target of proposed legislation after high profile mishaps at sea, will voluntarily publish more data about crimes on their cruises.Adam...
Jul 24 2013 // The Maryland Insurance Administration on Tuesday issued its first administrative orders under newly granted authority to pursue civil cases of insurance fraud.The authority took effect last October following passage of...
Jul 24 2013 // Almost of a third of American homeowners who have anti-theft devices on their homes don’t use them — even during the summer when burglars are at their busiest.A survey commissioned by Nationwide Insurance found...
Jul 23 2013 // Six defendants in a case involving an automobile accident insurance fraud scheme in Louisiana have pleaded guilty, U.S. Attorney Stephanie A. Finley announced.The pleas were heard by U.S. District Judge S. Maurice Hicks,...
Jul 23 2013 // A former Denton County, Texas, insurance agent has been convicted in an insurance fraud scheme that targeted elderly individuals, U.S. Attorney Sarah R. Saldana of the Northern District of Texas announced.A federal jury in...
Jul 22 2013 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau recently released its annual report on a per capita review of vehicle thefts from the nation’s Metropolitan Statistical Areas (MSA).The report, based on 2012 data, shows that...
Jul 18 2013 // Two Dallas residents have pleaded guilty to medical investment-related fraud in what investigators call a $10 million Ponzi scam.Federal prosecutors in Dallas last week announced guilty pleas from 50-year-old Duncan...
Jul 17 2013 // BP has set up a hotline for people to report alleged fraud involving claims arising from the company’s massive 2010 oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.The July 15 launch of the hotline comes a week after a federal...
Jul 16 2013 // A New Jersey man has admitted to supervising an auto theft ring that authorities say stole over 100 vehicles worth a total of more than $550,000.The Attorney General’s office says 33-year-old Jose D. Lopez of South...
Jul 16 2013 // A former Bixby, Okla., insurance agent has been sentenced to ten months home confinement after pleading guilty to wire fraud that allowed him to illegally take commissions earned by other insurance agents, the Oklahoma...
Jul 15 2013 // Consumer groups are worried that California’s uninsured could fall victim to fraud, identity theft or other crimes by some of the very people who are supposed to help them.More than 21,000 enrollment counselors will...