All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 22 2010 // The top U.S. bailout cop said evidence of fraud among banks that sought taxpayer funds was on the rise, and some of his investigations involve amounts exceeding $550 million.Neil Barofsky, the special inspector general for...
Sep 22 2010 // More than half (55 percent) of U.S. consumers say poor service from an insurance company is more likely to cause an individual to commit fraud against that company, according to a survey by Accenture.The survey also...
Sep 20 2010 // With a letter sent out a few weeks ago, Explorer Insurance announced that it will no longer write private automobile policies in Florida because there is too much fraud.“The company is taking this action in light of...
Sep 20 2010 // In advance of a rate announcement expected in this month, Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries is strengthening fraud fighting efforts, helping distressed employers and driving down costs internally...
Sep 17 2010 // A supposedly injured New York woman caught bragging on Facebook about her salary and job has pleaded guilty of stealing nearly $9,000 in undeserved worker’s comp benefits and sentenced to three years probation for...
Sep 16 2010 // A coalition of New York insurers says blaming medical mills are driving up the cost of auto insurance, a trend that amounts to a “no-fault automobile insurance fraud crisis” in the state.The New York Alliance...
Sep 16 2010 // More than 1,300 people have been charged in federal fraud cases related to the 2005 hurricanes in the five years since the storms struck the Gulf Coast, the Justice Department said Tuesday.A report released by the...
Sep 14 2010 // Cincinnati police are placing notes on cars parked around the city, cautioning owners not to leave laptop computers, GPS devices or other equipment in their vehicles where it can be seen by would-be thieves.Police say the...
Sep 13 2010 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink today announced the arrest of Aylin Hernandez, 23, of Miami, for fraudulently diverting mail and stealing payments intended for Citizens Property Insurance Corporation.Hernandez...
Sep 10 2010 // New York investigators have arrested seven people for workers’ comp fraud as part of a three-county sweep in Upstate New York.In one instance, the investigators used surveillance video to record a Poughkeepsie man,...
Sep 9 2010 // With a letter sent out a few weeks ago, Explorer Insurance announced that it will no longer write private automobile policies in Florida because there is too much fraud.“The company is taking this action in light of...
Sep 9 2010 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink announced today the culmination of an extensive insurance fraud investigation with the arrest of Luis M. Espinosa, 60, and Rene M. Cambert, 55, on eight first degree felony counts...
Sep 7 2010 // A federal judge has sentenced a Fort Smith, Arkansas, man to 18 months in prison for lying to the Federal Emergency Management Agency to get disaster assistance for Hurricane Katrina.U.S. District Judge Robert Dawson also...
Sep 2 2010 // The former airport director at New Orleans’ Louis Armstrong International Airport faces criminal charges in an alleged case mail and insurance fraud related to Hurricane Katrina.U.S. Attorney Jim Letten said Sean...
Sep 2 2010 // An Alabama woman is set for trial on a charges she conspired to defraud the federal government by preying on Hurricane Katrina victims who needed their properties rebuilt.The government seeks a judgment of $62,500 against...
Aug 31 2010 // In advance of a rate announcement expected in September, Washington’s Department of Labor and Industries said it is working to “transform itself” by strengthening fraud fighting efforts, helping...
Aug 30 2010 // Lawyers for Texas financier Allen Stanford and two accounting executives who worked for him sought to distance their clients Friday from the alleged financial wrongdoing insurer Lloyd’s of London cites as a reason to...
Aug 27 2010 // A federal court forfeiture hearing has been postponed in the case of a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge convicted of insurance fraud, because the judge’s wife has hired a new attorney to try to prevent their...
Aug 27 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson has announced that former insurance agent Jamie Smith of Bowling Green, Ohio, has been convicted on one count of felony theft in the Lucas County Court of Common...
Aug 26 2010 // A bulletin from Aon UK, notes that Britain’s Insurance Fraud Bureau “has claimed that “crash for cash” schemes, in which car accidents are staged in order to claim on another drivers’...