All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 15 2011 // Ohio’s chief workers’ compensation insurance regulator announced that 12 individuals were convicted or pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding Ohio’s workers’ compensation system during the...
Apr 14 2011 // A pair of bills aimed at cracking down on the runaway fraud that has vexed automobile insurers in recent years moved through a key Senate panel this week.The Senate Banking and Insurance Committee narrowly approved the...
Apr 14 2011 // U.S. authorities claimed one of their biggest victories against cyber crime as they shut down a ring they said used malicious software to take control of more than 2 million PCs around the world, and may have led to theft...
Apr 13 2011 // Suspicious insurance claims in New York were up about 4.5 percent in 2010, an industry report shows.In 2010, insurers reported a total of 7,026 questionable claims in the state, compared with 6,726 in 2009, according to...
Apr 13 2011 // The Judicial Conduct Board has begun disciplinary proceedings against a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge serving a 46-month federal prison sentence for insurance fraud. It was not immediately clear if ex-Superior...
Apr 13 2011 // One of Florida’s first “Most Wanted” insurance criminals was arrest based on a tip provided through the state’s new fraud Web site. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced that Erline...
Apr 11 2011 // The California Department of Insurance announced that insurance broker Christopher Luna has pleaded guilty at the West Covina, Calif., Courthouse to two felony counts of Grand Theft. Luna was ordered to serve three years...
Apr 7 2011 // A North Baltimore, Ohio, man has pleaded guilty to one count to workers’ compensation fraud. An investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) Special Investigations Division (SID) found that...
Apr 7 2011 // A Long Island insurance agent is being accused of stealing almost $8,000 in premiums. Police say complaints by several clients led to the arrest of Robert P. Manigaulte, of Medford, for collecting homeowners’...
Apr 4 2011 // New York investigators arrested 668 people accused of insurance fraud last year, including a Brooklyn woman arrested after a fist-fight, a surgeon who made $3.5 million by billing for working more than 24 hours a day and a...
Apr 1 2011 // A former Massachusetts prisons worker has been sentenced to five years of probation for defrauding the state by running long-distance races while collecting worker’s compensation for an on-the-job injury. John...
Mar 30 2011 // New York police arrested 13 people in a series of investigations targeting workers’ compensation fraud around the Empire State.In several cases, the arrests targeted individuals accused of improperly collecting...
Mar 29 2011 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Gary C. Quintinsky of Houston to a two-year prison term for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Upon completion of his state...
Mar 28 2011 // Tbe New Mexico Public Regulation Commission’s Transportation Division has put wrecker/towing companies on notice that it will strictly enforce the provisions of the New Mexico Motor Carrier Act, in light of recent...
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say.The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Mar 24 2011 // Ohio workers’ compensation system regulators have received nearly $2 million from an Akron area anesthesiologist who was convicted in 2006 on 56 criminal counts of health care and insurance fraud.Dr. Jorge Martinez...
Mar 23 2011 // A Deville, La., insurance agent has been accused of attempting to defraud insurers by submitting false business and receiving more than $127,000 in unearned commissions.Robert Lee Daniel III, 29, was served on March 18 by...
Mar 23 2011 // A former New York lawmaker will spend at least four years in prison following his conviction in a Hamptons insurance fraud case.George Guldi was sentenced in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead to three to nine years for...
Mar 23 2011 // Tort reform and fraud have become the two big targets as Florida lawmakers are finally gearing up to tackle the state’s no-fault auto insurance law.Taking a divide and conquer approach, the House Insurance and...
Mar 21 2011 // The North Dakota Insurance Department says fraud referrals have been doubling since 2008.The Jamestown Sun reports that the 94 referrals in 2010 totaled more than $1 million in suspicious claims. North Dakota Insurance...