All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 22 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the department’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2012.During the calendar year, the department processed 7,274 allegations of...
Feb 21 2013 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today announced revised estimates for the number of vehicles damaged as a result of Superstorm Sandy.The current estimate of vehicles damaged as a result of Sandy is now set at...
Feb 21 2013 // The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners has awarded a commendation to an investigator at the Missouri Department of Insurance for his efforts in uncovering a widespread insurance fraud operation against...
Feb 21 2013 // Key Florida lawmakers are running out of patience with the state’s fraud-plagued no-fault motor vehicle insurance system that has cost policyholders hundred millions of dollars.Senate President Don Gaetz ,...
Feb 20 2013 // Lion Insurance has formed an exclusive business partnership with Command Investigations, LLC as their national provider for all special investigative unit (SIU) and anti-fraud services. As part of the SIU and anti-fraud...
Feb 20 2013 // A recent survey shows that most registered Texas voters support the licensing of roofers in the state.According to the survey by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), when asked if roofing contractors should be licensed in...
Feb 19 2013 // The owners of a restaurant in San Marcos, Calif. have been charged with felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and forgery following a referral by the California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su’s criminal...
Feb 19 2013 // There are many cyber insurance products available for purchase, and each is somewhat unique. Some products are more comprehensive than others. Some cyber insurance products are combined with insurance policies of another...
Feb 18 2013 // Accusations, denials and threats to sue reverberated around Europe on Friday as meat traders, food processors, retailers and governments all rejected blame for horsemeat found in ever more beef dishes across the...
Feb 18 2013 // Two North Carolina men have been sentenced for their roles in a massive crop insurance fraud. A federal judge last Wednesday sentenced insurance agent William Larry Rogers to 9 years in prison for conspiring to make false...
Feb 15 2013 // Authorities announced this week that a Utica, N.Y., woman has been sentenced for her role in an insurance and health care fraud scheme.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of New York said Cynthia...
Feb 15 2013 // A former Wausau, Wis., insurance agency executive has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fraud scheme.Former J.N. Manson Agency Inc. (Manson) CEO Timothy Mathwich had been indicted by a grand jury in June 2012 on...
Feb 12 2013 // Air National Guard Maj. Zane Purdy was making more than $100,000 a year working for a defense contracting company when his identity was stolen and sold to a tax fraud ring.Now, Purdy makes $7.25 an hour at a Krystal...
Feb 10 2013 // Florida’s highest court has ruled a homeowner cannot re-open a voluntarily dismissed foreclosure case despite allegations that the bank falsified documents, giving a win to banks in a closely watched ruling that...
Feb 6 2013 // Lawyers for Standard and Poor’s, responding to a U.S. government probe, have tried for months to show it did nothing wrong in rating exotic securities in the run-up to the financial crisis.In one meeting, the...
Feb 5 2013 // Beazley plc has launched new computer crime and account takeover coverages for financial institutions. The enhanced computer crime policy is designed for the continually evolving services and applications that financial...
Feb 5 2013 // The U.S. government is seeking $5 billion in its civil lawsuit against Standard & Poor’s, accusing the ratings service of defrauding investors, in one of the most ambitious cases yet from the Justice Department...
Feb 5 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
Feb 5 2013 // The Florida Supreme Court says contract clauses requiring arbitration to settle related disputes include fraud claims.The justices unanimously reversed a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, which had...
Jan 31 2013 // Authorities announced that a Charlotte, N.C., woman was sentenced to 41 months in prison, to be followed by three years of supervised release, for carrying out a six-year mail fraud scheme against her employer. The...