All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 30 2009 // Georgia officials say they have arrested the ringleader in a fraud ring operating in Savannah, that collected nearly $95,000 from six insurance companies by staging accidents and filing bogus claims.Insurance Commissioner...
Oct 30 2009 // Two Southern California men who were arrested on Oct. 15 for workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Orange County.The state Insurance Commissioner, Steve Poizner, said that Sanjiv Mahendra Shah, 53, of Placentia...
Oct 30 2009 // LPL Financial Corporation (LPL) will pay nearly $1.3 million in restitution to Montana investors and a fine of $150,000 to the State of Montana under a settlement announced today by Monica Lindeen, Montana Commissioner of...
Oct 29 2009 // In a blow to businesses that contact drivers after car wrecks, Texas’ law enforcement and transportation agencies have agreed to drop telephone numbers from crash reports. The move is supported by the insurance...
Oct 29 2009 // Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon says Louisiana’s program to reduce vehicle theft and insurance fraud will be expanded in Orleans Parish, which includes New Orleans.Donelon made the announcement about the...
Oct 28 2009 // A brother and sister have been arrested by North Carolina officials on charges of insurance fraud.State Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin reported the arrest of Wanda Nichols Covington, 36, and her brother; Thomas...
Oct 27 2009 // A Florida real estate agent has been arrested in New York for committing insurance fraud against the state’s largest workers’ comp insurer, the New York State Insurance Fund.Ben Keskin, 52, of Florida, was...
Oct 26 2009 // In the year 2008, there was a 25 percent increase in suspected vehicle arson fraud in California, according to the state commissioner.Department of Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said that recently compiled...
Oct 21 2009 // Some investors defrauded by epic swindler Bernard Madoff on Tuesday added accounting firm KPMG, JPMorgan Chase and Bank of New York Mellon to a civil lawsuit in a New York court, lawyer Joseph Cotchett said.The lawyer, who...
Oct 20 2009 // California Attorney General Jerry Brown’s office said Monday it would unveil a lawsuit against a major bank for committing fraud against the state’s Calpers and Calstrs retirement systems, two of the...
Oct 20 2009 // The Louisiana State Police reports that its Region 1 detectives have recovered additional stolen farm and construction equipment after further investigation into a case in which two suspects had already been charged with...
Oct 19 2009 // Michael “Mike” R. Donohoe of Mankato, Minn., was installed as vice chairman of the Independent Insurance Agents & Brokers of America at the association’s recent Leadership Conference in New Orleans,...
Oct 19 2009 // Two men who claim thieves broke into their rental home in the ritzy coastal enclave of Pebble Beach and made off with millions of dollars worth of art have been named as suspects in the case.Monterey County Sheriff’s...
Oct 14 2009 // A Sacramento insurance agent has pled no contest in a case in which it was alleged she took money from clients to invest in real estate loans, but never did.The authorities have said that Maria Elna Flora, 59, who pled to...
Oct 13 2009 // A Miami insurance agent was arrested for the second time in less than a month for stealing more than $14 million by submitting thousands of fraudulent premium finance contracts for fictitious policyholders, according to...
Oct 13 2009 // Former insurance agent and San Diego County resident Lynn Flanagan, 60, was sentenced to serve 180 days in jail and pay more than $100,000 in restitution for stealing from clients, the California Department of Insurance...
Oct 9 2009 // A crime ring raked in about $10,000 a day by manufacturing credit cards with numbers purchased illegally from overseas Web sites, committing mortgage fraud and staging car accidents and auto thefts to collect insurance...
Oct 9 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced today that Tony Lu, 56, of San Jose, was arrested on October 7 and charged with filing a false motor vehicle claim, perjury and falsely reporting a crime. Lu was...
Oct 8 2009 // Two men who claim thieves broke into their rental home in the ritzy coastal enclave of Pebble Beach and made off with millions of dollars worth of art were named as suspects in the case Tuesday.Monterey County...
Oct 8 2009 // Utah officials are warning the public of an international mail fraud scheme involving a bogus letter said to be from Nationwide Insurance. The scam has spread to 10 states, according to the Utah Department of...