All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 11 2009 // A former Iowa insurance agent accused of siphoning more than $1 million from clients has pleaded guilty to federal charges.Jack Straw pleaded guilty to four counts of wire fraud and one count each of mail fraud, possessing...
Feb 10 2009 // Australian police treated the country’s entire bushfire disaster zone as a crime scene on Tuesday as investigators combed through a blackened wasteland to find clues to the culprits behind the country’s...
Feb 10 2009 // The number of Americans ensnared by identity theft is on the rise, but victims are striking back more quickly and limiting how much is stolen.In 2008, the number of identity theft cases jumped 22 percent to 9.9 million,...
Feb 6 2009 // North Carolina-based G4S Compliance & Investigations has formed partnership with National Unity Insurance Company, a Texas-headquartered company specializing in providing liability insurance for Mexican private and...
Feb 6 2009 // In two separate instances, Louisiana insurance agents recently have been accused of fraud and misappropriating premiums.In one case, the Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Section Investigators served Tamara Celeste...
Feb 5 2009 // Two men sentenced to federal prison for cheating investors out of more than $100 million in an insurance scheme have failed to convince an appeals court that they were unfairly convicted of mail fraud.The 11th U.S. Circuit...
Feb 4 2009 // The former chief of Louisiana’s state-backed insurance company has pleaded not guilty in a criminal case that accuses him of fraudulently spending the firm’s money for personal travel and entertainment.Terry...
Feb 3 2009 // A serial home arsonist, an elected judge who made phony auto injury claims, and dentists who did worthless root canals on children were among the nine swindlers elected to the Insurance Hall of Shame.The Coalition Against...
Feb 3 2009 // The U.S. Department of Justice says Maryland must soon implement a national computer system that warns buyers if a vehicle was stolen or previously damaged.Officials say the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System...
Jan 29 2009 // The nation will soon have a new online computer system to help protect states and consumers from automobile fraud and to provide law enforcement with new tools to investigate fraud, theft, and other crimes involving...
Jan 28 2009 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced a number of fee reductions resulting in $10.3 million in annual savings, including a 6 percent fee reduction for more than 300,000 licensed insurance agents,...
Jan 28 2009 // The former vice president of reinsurance of American International Group Inc. (AIG) has been sentenced to four years in prison for his role in a fraudulent scheme to manipulate AIG’s financial statements, according...
Jan 28 2009 // A man authorities say participated in a series of staged auto accidents in Lawrence in an effort to defraud insurers has been sentenced to nine months in prison.Leo Lopez was also also ordered Monday to pay nearly $56,000...
Jan 28 2009 // The current financial crisis affects almost every aspect of our business life. That includes insurance. Businesses need to be wise consumers and aware of the legal issues covered by their coverages. Let’s take a look...
Jan 28 2009 // A state agency is reviewing the way it tracks how employees use the Internet after a report concluded that a worker remained undetected for years as he alternately viewed pornographic Web sites and did work for his...
Jan 26 2009 // Global chemical giant Ineos Phenol, stung by a $192 million jury verdict, has denied stealing a hazardous waste recycling idea from a Mobile chemist and said it would appeal a judge’s order upholding the award.Mobile...
Jan 26 2009 // A retired Pennsylvania Superior Court judge wants a federal judge to reverse his conviction or entirely dismiss insurance fraud charges stemming from $440,000 he collected in an August 2001 traffic accident. Attorneys for...
Jan 25 2009 // Fiduciary liability typically involves an employee suing an employer for not offering employee options for investing in a 401K plan, and the law weighs heavily in favor of the employee in these cases.The current financial...
Jan 25 2009 // Brooklyn, N.Y. — Thieves who broke the locks on an unoccupied apartment building stripped the entire building of its copper piping, valued at more than $30,000.Las Vegas — The entire electrical system,...
Jan 25 2009 // The nation experienced a 3.5 percent decline in violent crime and a 2.5 percent decline in property crime for the first six months of 2008, according to the Federal Bureau of Investigation.Violent crime was down in all...