All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 12 2011 // Barbara Morris died in a house fire set by an insurance arsonist. Bob Harper bought a fake health policy after urgently needing a pacemaker. A homeless man received a pittance after being rammed by a motorist who bought...
Jan 12 2011 // An attorney who was disbarred after representing clients in a multimillion-dollar diet drug settlement has been indicted on a fraudulent insurance acts charge.The Lexington Herald-Leader reported that a Fayette County...
Jan 6 2011 // The former director of aviation at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport pleaded guilty to obstruction of justice for his role in a Hurricane Katrina insurance fraud case.Sean Hunter and his wife, Shauna...
Jan 6 2011 // Nearly one out of every five no-fault auto insurance claims closed in the New York City area in 2010 appears to have elements of fraud, according to a new study from the Insurance Research Council (IRC).And as many as one...
Dec 30 2010 // As California’s third elected insurance commissioner, Steve Poizner has had a wealth of accomplishments. Among other things, he: reduced the Department of Insurance’s operating budget by 13 percent, which...
Dec 30 2010 // Home insurance is now the number one target for insurance fraudsters according to the hundreds of fraudulent insurance claims exposed every day, according to the Association of British Insurers (ABI).To back up is...
Dec 30 2010 // The economic crisis might have had a hand in pushing people to commit insurance fraud. However, it isn’t entirely to blame, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.Nationwide, there has been a 12 percent...
Dec 29 2010 // Bakerjian Insurance Services (BIS) has launched of a new insurance product designed to protect lenders against potential damage from repurchase demands. Called Lenders Misrepresentation Insurance (LMI), the policy...
Dec 29 2010 // Allstate has filed its seventh lawsuit this year against what it says are medical corporations committing fraud in New York State.The $1.9 million suit claims that three medical corporations in the state were owned and...
Dec 22 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has issued a warning about a recent rash of catalytic converter thefts in Columbus and is encouraging automobile owners to take steps to protect themselves from becoming...
Dec 22 2010 // A Pickaway County medical equipment supplier was sentenced in early December on charges of theft and workers’ compensation fraud. Marcus Brown, owner of Acme Elevator, located in Circleville, was convicted in...
Dec 22 2010 // Accounting firm Ernst & Young was sued by New York prosecutors over allegations it helped to hide Lehman Brothers’ financial problems, in the first major government legal action stemming from the Wall Street...
Dec 21 2010 // A woman was indicted last week in the Eastern District of Louisiana for allegedly filing fraudulent claims for compensation due to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill. Four other individuals were also charged last week in...
Dec 20 2010 // Lexington Insurance Co., a Chartis company, announced an agreement with National Equipment Register (NER), which will help Lexington’s contractor equipment policyholders protect their construction equipment from...
Dec 20 2010 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada (IBC) recently released its annual list of the most frequently stolen vehicles, as follows: 1. 2000 Honda Civic SiR 2-door 2. 1999 Honda Civic SiR 2-door 3. 2002 Cadillac Escalade 4-door...
Dec 20 2010 // The nation experienced a 6.2 percent decrease in the number of violent crimes and a 2.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes from January to June 2010. Arson, motor vehicle theft, larceny-theft fell and...
Dec 17 2010 // A Lynnwood, Wash., man who claimed that thieves had repeatedly made off with his collection of more than 200 silk neckties has paid back more than $33,000 and pleaded guilty to two counts of making a false insurance...
Dec 17 2010 // Georgia’s insurance industry is teaming up with state authorities to launch an ambitious effort to crack down on the rising number of insurance fraud cases.Incoming Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens, who takes...
Dec 16 2010 // Questionable property/casualty insurance claims rose 12 percent in the third quarter over last year, according to the latest reports from insurance companies.Through the third quarter of 2010, the National Insurance Crime...
Dec 15 2010 // A former clinical counselor in the Finlay, Ohio-area has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Authorities say John Blain Frankenburg, also known as Blain J. Frankenburg, fraudulently billed two insurance companies more than...