All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 22 2012 // Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and eight counts each of tax evasion and were ordered to pay...
Oct 12 2012 // Prosecutors say a woman who collected federal disability benefits while operating a fitness center has been convicted of making false statements to obtain those benefits. A jury convicted 48-year-old Darlene Altvater of...
Oct 11 2012 // New Jersey authorities announced that a Burlington County company has pleaded guilty for under-reporting the number of its employees and wages to evade the full payment of workers’ compensation insurance premiums....
Oct 10 2012 // The U.S. government filed a civil mortgage fraud lawsuit on Tuesday against Wells Fargo & Co, the latest legal volley against big banks for their lending during the housing boom.The complaint, brought by the U.S....
Oct 9 2012 // A teaching assistant in Southern California has been arrested on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud.Gerard Padilla, 45, an employee of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, has been arrested...
Oct 9 2012 // Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance and the Davidson County Sheriff’s office are teaming up to promote identity theft awareness. The two agencies will host a free shredding event from 10 a.m. until...
Oct 9 2012 // Forty-five percent of insurers estimated that insurance fraud costs represent 5-10 percent of their claims volume, while 32 percent said the ratio is as high as 20 percent.This is according to a survey of U.S. insurers...
Oct 8 2012 // A new website launched last month by the Opelousas Police Department to help the rightful owners to recover their stolen property is producing results.Police Chief Perry Gallow told The Daily World he personally returned...
Oct 5 2012 // United States Attorney for the Western District of Texas Robert Pitman announced that the San Antonio Police Department and the Austin Police Department will each receive $200,000 in federal grant money to combat the...
Oct 5 2012 // Jerry Buffington, 69, and Cynthia Russell, 47, have pled guilty in Kern County Superior Court to one count each of workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and eight counts each of tax evasion and were ordered...
Oct 5 2012 // CNA, a global business insurer, is now using CargoNet and the National Equipment Register (NER) — two national information sharing systems designed to help policyholders combat the growing problems of cargo and heavy...
Oct 4 2012 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) is a non-profit entity that acts as the trade association for state insurance commissioners.Although the NAIC may play a central role in regulation of the...
Oct 3 2012 // The Tennessee Supreme Court has ruled in favor of a man who was misled into thinking he was a father and ordered the child’s mother to reimburse him more than $25,000 for child support, medical expenses and insurance...
Oct 3 2012 // New York state’s lawsuit against JPMorgan Chase & Co. alleging fraud in mortgage-backed securities sold by Bear Stearns may be one of the broadest cases to come out of the financial crisis, but its impact is...
Oct 2 2012 // The co-founders of defunct St. Louis-area auto service contract seller, US Fidelis, has been sentenced to prison on charges of stealing consumers’ refunds, insurance fraud and consumer fraud.Missouri Attorney General...
Oct 1 2012 // Mississippi officials are dropping the remnants of an 11-year-old lawsuit after collecting as much money as they think they can get in reparations for insurance fraud by a convicted financier who claimed Vatican...
Sep 24 2012 // A Cincinnati, Ohio-area insurance agent has been sentenced for theft from Hamilton County residents, the Ohio Department of Insurance announced.Former Ohio insurance agent Cecil Young, of Cincinnati, was sentenced to four...
Sep 21 2012 // A judge sentenced former Hackensack Police Chief Ken Zisa to five years in prison on Thursday.Zisa will remain free on bail while he appeals his conviction for improperly removing his then-girlfriend from the scene of an...
Sep 20 2012 // A Mount Ida, Ark., man who operated several insurance agencies across the state has pleaded not guilty to federal fraud charges.Steven Alan Standridge entered the pleas Sept. 18 in federal court. He was indicted in August...
Sep 20 2012 // A state Transportation Department worker has been convicted of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of workers compensation benefits by doing strenuous activities at his home when he was supposedly too hurt to...