All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2013 // A Philadelphia bishop has been charged with insurance fraud related to water damage that his Pentecostal church sustained.State investigators say Bishop Benjamin Fisher of the Greater Bethel Temple in northeast...
Jun 3 2013 // The nation experienced a 1.2 percent increase in the number of violent crimes and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2012 when compared with data from 2011, the FBI said.Violent crime increased in...
Jun 3 2013 // The alleged leader of an $800 million South Florida insurance fraud scheme has been found competent to stand trial despite severe pain from a spinal cord ailment that requires him to take powerful drugs including...
May 31 2013 // A northern Michigan insurance broker accused of fleecing elderly clients out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison.Prosecutors say William Lowder persuaded clients to change their...
May 29 2013 // Hank Greenberg should still face trial over sham transactions he is accused of orchestrating while he was head of American International Group, even though New York has dropped most of its claims against him, a lawyer for...
May 29 2013 // A measure championed by U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan adds $5 million in new funding to the 2013 farm bill to help root out crop insurance fraud. The Senate approved Hagan’s amendment last week by a vote of 94-0. The money...
May 28 2013 // New York’s highest court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Hank Greenberg of orchestrating sham transactions when he was head of insurance company American International Group...
May 24 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that two insurance fraud investigations have led to criminal convictions in the Columbus and Cleveland areas. The cases were related to...
May 23 2013 // A former Alaska state employee and his supposed masseuse are accused of worker’s compensation fraud.Scott A. Groom and Laurayne K. Fischer are charged with 93 counts including perjury, theft and falsification of...
May 23 2013 // North Carolina authorities have accused a Lincoln County man of filing a fake report of a stolen motorcycle and trailer to get money from an insurance company.The Charlotte Observer reported that 38-year-old William...
May 21 2013 // The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player’s case that Connecticut lawyers can’t be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine.The court’s 5-1...
May 21 2013 // A mother and daughter have been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the older woman’s home in Stratford, Conn.Police tell the Connecticut Post they became suspicious after finding valuables and all the...
May 20 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013.Since 2003, Allstate has filed 47 fraud lawsuits...
May 20 2013 // A South Carolina jury has found a Hartsville store owner guilty of faking an assault and setting fire to her own store to get insurance money. The Morning News of Florence reported a judge sentenced 47-year-old Claudette...
May 20 2013 // A 35-year-old Denham Springs, La., man has been sentenced in Baton Rouge federal court to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay two life insurance companies more than $1.4 million for frauds he committed against...
May 20 2013 // Texas law enforcement officials said on May 10 that they are beginning a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant fire and explosion that occurred on April 17 in West, Texas.Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)...
May 20 2013 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is asking a judge to void a jury’s finding that the company defrauded the government in a case involving a policyholder claim after Hurricane Katrina.The verdict came in April in a...
May 17 2013 // Five Northern California residents were arrested by California Department of Insurance fraud investigators and booked into the Sacramento County jail and charged with multiple felony counts related to alleged insurance...
May 15 2013 // A former Texas insurance agent has been convicted of a first-degree felony for diverting more than $150,000 in premium payments for personal use, the Texas Department of Insurance reported.The DOI said Leslie Ray Collins...
May 14 2013 // New York authorities indicted eight defendants last week with mail fraud and conspiracy to commit mail fraud in connection with a scheme to defraud multiple insurance companies.According to the indictment, these defendants...