All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 1 2009 // A Nevada Senate panel was urged to support an Assembly-approved plan that would help prevent identity theft by making less credit card information available on printed receipts.AB389 would prohibit printing more than the...
May 1 2009 // Gulfport, Mississippi Mayor Brent Warr, the highest-ranking public official charged with Hurricane Katrina fraud, made numerous false statements about the living arrangements of his family and a beachfront home damaged by...
May 1 2009 // An ex-judge for the Pennsylvania Superior Court has begun serving his 46-month sentence for insurance fraud at a minimum-security federal prison in West Virginia. Online federal prison record confirm that former judge...
Apr 28 2009 // A former General Re senior vice president faces sentencing for his role in an accounting fraud scandal that artificially inflated the stock price of insurer American International Group Inc.Robert Graham is scheduled to be...
Apr 24 2009 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Mary Jo Hudson announced that Huey Granderson of Millersport, Ohio, has pled guilty on three counts stemming from his involvement in a Fairfield County insurance fraud ring.Granderson...
Apr 22 2009 // Columbus, Ohio-based Motorists Mutual Insurance Co. announced it is offering educational resources to commercial lines policyholders to help them comply with new federal regulations concerning data security and identity...
Apr 22 2009 // The Insurance Frauds Bureau of New York State made 160 arrests for frauds-related crimes through the first three months of the year, according to new statistics released by the New York Insurance Department.The total...
Apr 21 2009 // A Cleveland, Ohio, chiropractor who has been under investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s (BWC) special investigations department (SID) has been sentenced after pleading guilty to...
Apr 20 2009 // A North Carolina woman has been sentenced to two years in prison for helping a chiropractor in a $12 million kickback scheme that federal prosecutors called the largest health insurance fraud in western Pennsylvania...
Apr 20 2009 // A national advocacy group is urging lawmakers in Maine to create an insurance fraud bureau.The Pine Tree State has the highest per-capita rate of insurance fraud in America, according to the Coalition Against Insurance...
Apr 20 2009 // The owner of a Florida-based repair company accused of faking hail damage to drum up business after a 2006 storm in Indiana agreed to $660 in fines and fees in return for dropped charges, prosecutors say. Indianapolis,...
Apr 20 2009 // As America’s economy slogs through this once-in-a-generation recession, stressed-out consumers are literally being driven to desperation. Growing numbers of drivers around the U.S. are illegally dumping their...
Apr 16 2009 // Insurance agents can play a big role in helping states to fight insurance fraud. And with insurance fraud costing California alone $15 billion each year, or $500 per resident, the cost of which is eventually passed onto...
Apr 15 2009 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office says a former Maryland resident has been sentenced for stealing $60,200 in Hurricane Katrina disaster relief benefits. Forty-two-year-old Schewanda Baptiste, formerly of Waldorf, was...
Apr 15 2009 // Las Vegas police say a push to curb auto thefts is behind a big drop in the number of vehicles stolen in southern Nevada.A report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau said that Clark County had the seventh-most cars...
Apr 13 2009 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that 2008 marked the nation’s fifth consecutive year of declining vehicle thefts in the United States. Although most areas experienced a reduction in vehicle theft,...
Apr 10 2009 // A Chattanooga, Tenn. insurance agent has been charged with insurance fraud and theft for allegedly adding commissions to policies when he told policyholders that the coverage was being sold on a net basis — with a...
Apr 9 2009 // An national advocacy group is urging lawmakers in Maine to create an insurance fraud bureau.The Pine Tree State, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, has the highest per-capita rate of insurance fraud in...
Apr 7 2009 // A federal judge on Monday halted a consumer class-action fraud lawsuit against Washington Mutual Inc, saying it may be more appropriate for the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp to handle claims against the failed savings and...