All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 27 2010 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner is considering a recent court decision a victory for consumers, as a lawsuit that attempted to stop the Commissioner from protecting Californians in connection with the...
Jul 26 2010 // Kansas regulators have suspended the license of a Wichita insurance agent in a rare emergency order spurred by a federal investigation over alleged fraud linked to the trust of an elderly woman.The action was taken against...
Jul 26 2010 // The UK’s insurers are detecting more fraudulent insurance claims than ever according to figures released by the Association of British Insurers. The ABI said that insurers had received over 2,000 dishonest insurance...
Jul 23 2010 // A New Jersey grand jury has indicted a Maryland insurance broker, his companies and an accomplice on charges they conspired to steal $2.5 million from the Perth Amboy school system, the state’s attorney general...
Jul 22 2010 // Hate crimes in California fell by more than 20 percent last year, according to a new report released by California Attorney General Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s office.“Hate Crime in California 2009” showed that...
Jul 20 2010 // The New York State Insurance Fund said a Queens contractor who allegedly defrauded the workers’ comp insurer of more than $150,000 in uncollected premium has been arrested.Queens contractor on grand larceny and...
Jul 20 2010 // Shareholders angry about BP Plc’s battered stock price are heading to the courthouse in hopes of reclaiming some of their losses, but they face an uphill battle.Since the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in April,...
Jul 19 2010 // A judge on Thursday dismissed a $2.3 million judgment against Dole Food Co. in a lawsuit by purported Nicaraguan banana workers, ruling that the company and the court were victims of a massive fraud.Los Angeles Superior...
Jul 19 2010 // New Jersey is taking aim at residents who fraudulently register their vehicles or obtain auto insurance in other states.The Assembly recently passed a measure that makes so-called “reverse rate evasion” a form...
Jul 19 2010 // American International Group Inc. agreed to pay $725 million to settle a long-running securities fraud lawsuit led by three Ohio public pension funds, in one of the largest class action settlements in U.S. history.AIG,...
Jul 16 2010 // Goldman Sachs Group Inc. agreed to pay $550 million to settle civil fraud charges over how it marketed a subprime mortgage product, ending months of negotiations that rattled the bank’s clients and investors.The U.S....
Jul 16 2010 // Law enforcement officials say North Carolina’s crime rate in 2009 was the lowest in a quarter-century. The statistics released by the office of Attorney General Roy Cooper show particlar improvements in violent...
Jul 16 2010 // A federal appeals court has refused to allow a new trial for an investment adviser serving 12 years in the loss of $216 million at the state agency for injured workers.The three-judge panel of the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Jul 15 2010 // Three insurance brokers from Maryland have pleaded not guilty to charges that they bilked the city of Perth Amboy, N.J., out of more than $216,000 by collecting payments for a nonexistent wellness program for city...
Jul 7 2010 // Bob Harper thought he’d found a better health-insurance deal. The Oklahoma man bought coverage from an outfit called American Trade Association (ATA). The price seemed affordable, and he thought he’d save...
Jul 7 2010 // Agents from the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section have arrested the CEO of a bankrupt Scranton insurance agency, who is charged with the theft of more than $1.3 million in premiums that were...
Jul 7 2010 // Florida’s Citizens Property Insurance might not be missing any mail or checks from customers after all, although the insurer can’t be 100 percent certain.Insurance Journal and other media reported yesterday...
Jul 6 2010 // New Jersey is taking aim at residents who fraudulently register their vehicles or obtain auto insurance in other states.The Assembly recently passed a measure that makes so-called “reverse rate evasion” a form...
Jul 5 2010 // People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If you change that statement by one word so it reads, “it’s nothing...
Jul 5 2010 // People use the phrase “it’s nothing personal, just business” all the time. It covers a wide range of topics and situations. If you change that statement by one word so it reads, “it’s nothing...