All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 25 2010 // Two Pennsylvania insurance agency execs and their spouses have been charged in what prosecutors say is a massive pyramid scheme that swindled local colleges, businesses and other organizations of more than $7.5 million.The...
Aug 24 2010 // Church music director Carva White faced the music after launching an unholy plan to burn down his house of worship for an insurance payout.White played hymns for the Sunflower Missionary Baptist Church in Leavenworth, Kan....
Aug 24 2010 // Victims of identity theft are most often targeted via burglary, stolen wallets and pilfered identifications, according to a new survey on identity fraud.In some 76 percent of all cases of identity fraud reported by...
Aug 20 2010 // North Dakota’s Supreme Court says an insurance agent who was convicted of running a federal farm payment scam is entitled to some retirement money. Duane Huber of Wimbledon contended North Dakota Farmers Union...
Aug 19 2010 // A federal judge has set a forfeiture hearing for a former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who is serving a 46-month prison sentence for insurance fraud.Michael Joyce, of Millcreek Township, was convicted of mail fraud...
Aug 17 2010 // North Carolina’s Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has announced the arrests of three individuals allegedly involved in a fraudulent stolen vehicle scheme meant to deceive an insurance company.Donna Leblanc, 55,...
Aug 16 2010 // Ohio Highway Patrol troopers say they’re seeing an “alarming” increase in cases of identity theft. The patrol says it has investigated 248 cases so far this year, compared to 114 by this time in 2009. The...
Aug 16 2010 // Insurance Journal is pleased to publish the 2010 Education and Training Directory. This exclusive resource directory has been designed to help independent agents and brokers find educational and training opportunities to...
Aug 12 2010 // Former state senator John Ford could have his federal prison sentence nearly cut in half after a recent Supreme Court decision that weakened an anti-fraud law.The 68-year-old Ford is serving a 19-year sentence. A 2008...
Aug 11 2010 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced today that it has established its second major medical fraud task force in Florida to counter the increase and spread in acts of medical fraud. The Central Florida Major...
Aug 6 2010 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that Michael Cox of Powell, Ohio, has been indicted by a Franklin County grand jury on ten counts of felony theft.A department investigation revealed Cox had...
Aug 5 2010 // Llorente SIU announced the conviction of an Ewa Beach, Hawaii, man on theft and perjury charges resulting from a suspect workers’ compensation claim. Jacob Belaski, the owner of Teixeira Trucking Inc. misrepresented...
Aug 4 2010 // Pennsylvania saw a 22 percent increase in fraud complaints in the first half of the year, in a continuation of a trend that started two years ago, according to the Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority...
Aug 4 2010 // A man who Philadelphia prosecutors call the mastermind of a more than $1 million insurance fraud scheme will serve four to 10 years in prison.A judge on Thursday also ordered 44-year-old Wallace Morris to pay $440,000 in...
Aug 3 2010 // A New Jersey insurance broker has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $300,000 in premium payments from his clients, according to the state’s attorney general.Under a plea agreement with prosecutors, the state will...
Aug 2 2010 // A lawyer from a well-known Massachusetts personal injury firm who was convicted of insurance fraud will be allowed to practice law again.The state’s highest court on Thursday reinstated the law license of Nicholas...
Jul 29 2010 // Attorney General Wayne Stenehjem says North Dakota’s crime rate dropped slightly last year, but the number of violent crimes rose.A new report provides North Dakota statistics for a number of crimes, including...
Jul 29 2010 // A Winterville, North Carolina mother and daughter have been accused of conspiring with one another to alter medical bills and submit them to Farm Bureau Insurance Co. They received $1,264 as a result of these claims,...
Jul 28 2010 // The owner of a Woodside, New York insurance brokerage has been arrested for allegedly stealing $22,300 in commissions from an insurance agency that fired her.New York fraud investigators said Gohar Parunakyan, 40, of Fresh...
Jul 27 2010 // Swindlers, scammers and even a few strippers are flocking to the Gulf Coast in search of a piece of the $20 billion BP Plc has set aside to compensate residents for spill-related losses.Adjusters passing out emergency...