All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 15 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Ellynn A. Ogilvie of Houston to five years of probation, 450 community service hours and a $2,000 fine for workers’ compensation...
Jun 14 2011 // Florida regulators have announced the arrest of a North Carolina man who allegedly collected more than $2.7 million in workers’ compensation premiums from a company by providing a fake policy. Florida Chief Financial...
Jun 13 2011 // Janus Capital Group Inc. and a subsidiary cannot be held liable in a lawsuit by shareholders over allegedly false statements in prospectuses for several Janus mutual funds, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled Monday.By a 5-4 vote...
Jun 10 2011 // A day after two unarmed Louisiana insurance fraud investigators were gunned down while looking into a case, the state insurance commissioner said that his department may have their agents carry weapons.Kim Sledge and Rhett...
Jun 10 2011 // The Tennessee Supreme court has agreed to hear a case that could decide whether a man has legal grounds to sue for being duped into supporting a child that turns out to be fathered by someone else.Legal experts believe it...
Jun 10 2011 // It is axiomatic in Florida that when it comes to the legislature and insurance issues, the power brokers play for the last 72 hours. No matter how many committee meetings, no matter how many press conferences, no matter...
Jun 10 2011 // Cyber crime has become a high profile problem for risk managers, heightened as a result of the recent attacks by hackers on Sony. In an article on its web site Lloyd’s notes that risk manager are increasingly...
Jun 9 2011 // An Oklahoma construction contractor has been charged with taking payments to repair roofs damaged by recent tornadoes and strong storms, then failing to perform the work.Six felony counts of violating the Oklahoma Consumer...
Jun 8 2011 // Two investigators with the Louisiana Department of Insurance were shot and killed on June 7 while attempting to collect case information from an insurance agent in Ville Platte.Authorities believe that John Melvin Lavergne...
Jun 6 2011 // A South Carolina bill banning cash payments for copper appears one vote away from Gov. Nikki Haley’s desk.The House voted last Thursday to end cash sales for copper, and to require both seller and recycler to obtain...
Jun 6 2011 // It is axiomatic in Florida that when it comes to the legislature and insurance issues, the power brokers play to the last 72 hours. No matter how many committee meetings, no matter how many press conferences, no matter how...
Jun 1 2011 // A Rhode Island radio personality and a former North Providence town council president are set to admit to taking part in an insurance fraud scheme. Lori Sergiacomi — known on air as Tanya Cruise — and Robert Ricci are...
May 27 2011 // The Oregon Senate has passed a bill that makes insurance fraud in claims a crime. According to the insurance fraud bill, SB 401, fraud warnings would be mandatory on policies, noting that presenting a fraudulent claim for...
May 26 2011 // California tops the nation as the state with the most cargo thefts, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, which recently issued its “2010 National Cargo Theft Report.”NICB identified 747 cargo...
May 26 2011 // A Georgia insurance agent who took premiums from a nonprofit pleaded guilty in Bibb County Superior Court to one count of insurance fraud.Broadus W. Marshall Jr. of Macon was sentenced to 10 years of probation, 500 hours...
May 25 2011 // A Rhode Island radio personality has agreed to plead guilty to taking part in an insurance fraud scheme involving a former North Providence town councilman recently sentenced on fraud and corruption charges.Federal...
May 24 2011 // Violent crime is down 6.2 percent and property crimes have decreased 2.8 percent in the U.S., according to the latest government statistics.Also, arson offenses, which are tracked separately from other property crimes, is...
May 23 2011 // Michigan officials are warning Detroit-area drivers that they may have unknowingly purchased fraudulent automobile insurance certificates from an entity claiming to be a Michigan-licensed insurance agency named Ethos...
May 23 2011 // A New Jersey insurance broker already charged in a bribery scheme with a former schools superintendent has been indicted on federal election fraud charges. Francis Gartland is accused of scheming with another man to...
May 23 2011 // A court-appointed trustee says the owners of the New York Mets reaped profits from Bernard Madoff’s financial Ponzi scheme even as they shopped for insurance to protect themselves in case the scam collapsed. Trustee...