All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 20 2012 // A financial services industry group warned U.S. banks, brokerages and insurers on Wednesday to be on heightened alert for cyber attacks after Bank of America and JPMorgan Chase experienced unexplained outages on their...
Sep 19 2012 // A Richmond woman has been sentenced to 11 years and three months in prison for health care fraud and other offenses. A federal judge last Thursday also ordered Veronica Sharon Cunningham to pay more than $6.6 million in...
Sep 19 2012 // A former co-owner of auto service contract seller US Fidelis has been sentenced to more than three years in federal prison.Cory Atkinson of Lake St. Louis, Mo., was sentenced Sept. 18 in St. Louis. He pleaded guilty in...
Sep 19 2012 // US Bank is rejecting allegations in a lawsuit that claims one of its employees helped Peregrine Financial Group CEO Russ Wasendorf Sr. mislead regulators about his misuse of customer funds.Wasendorf, the founder of the...
Sep 19 2012 // A Dyersburg, Tenn., former insurance agent is scheduled for sentencing next month after she entered guilty pleas to felony theft charges. Tina Butler was indicted on charges that she took insurance premium money from 16...
Sep 17 2012 // A Rockland, Mass., woman has been indicted in connection with a scheme to fraudulently collect insurance payments of more than $28,000.The Massachusetts attorney general’s office announced last Friday that Olga...
Sep 17 2012 // A second man has pleaded guilty in connection with an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand.U.S. Attorney Bill Nettles says 58-year-old David Player pleaded guilty in Columbia last week to mail...
Sep 14 2012 // The wife of a South Carolina Highway Patrol trooper has been charged with setting her home on fire and lying to officials.Paula L. Rose has been charged with third-degree arson for a fire at her home in July. Rose also is...
Sep 13 2012 // The founder of an Iowa brokerage has signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors in which he admits to carrying out a $200 million fraud and embezzlement scheme that bankrupted his company and could result in him...
Sep 13 2012 // Verisk Crime Analytics has launched national information sharing systems designed to help Canadian insurers and their policyholders combat the growing problems of cargo and heavy equipment theft. Verisk Crime Analytics is...
Sep 12 2012 // A recently divorced executive accused of mishandling employees’ insurance funds fired on police at his home in a wealthy Detroit, Mich., suburb, killing one officer and precipitating a 20-hour armed standoff that...
Sep 10 2012 // Just months after Florida lawmakers enacted a law targeting the role of check cashing companies in the construction industry, state officials announced a string of arrests netting more than $140 million in fraudulent...
Sep 7 2012 // Texas homeowner Jim Warner has been locked in a legal battle with State Farm over denial of insurance claims for the damages to his home from Hurricane Ike. That battle was just upgraded to a category five by the Travis...
Sep 7 2012 // Three members of a North Pole family have been charged with felony insurance fraud connected to the crash of a pickup.A complaint filed by state insurance investigator Alex Romero says 26-year-old Marlon A. Conklin and his...
Sep 5 2012 // New York authorities announced last week that a Long Island, N.Y., man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stealing more than $648,000 in premiums from a client and spending the money on...
Aug 31 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week announced the arrest of Shacoria Vontravia Crawford, 24, of Charlotte, N.C. She is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit...
Aug 30 2012 // Tennessee’s safety department is creating a new unit to investigate identity theft crimes that local law enforcement agencies don’t have the resources to target. Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security...
Aug 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has issued California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ annual report for 2011 that details CDI’s progress on its “ambitious consumer and business protection...
Aug 28 2012 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has introduced insurance coverage to help small to mid-size health care organizations manage some of their biggest exposures.ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for Health Care Organizations offers...
Aug 24 2012 // Philippine police say they have rounded up 357 foreigners accused of duping Taiwanese and Chinese citizens in an online scam.National police investigation chief Samuel Pagdilao said the mostly Chinese and Taiwanese...