All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2008 // A West Virginia court indicted a Welch, W.Va. man on two felony counts of filing a false claim with an insurance company, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. A Mercer County Grand Jury indicted Aaron D....
Jun 19 2008 // Police in New York say 13 people staged minor car accidents to get thousands of dollars’ worth of unnecessary medical treatment from four Bronx clinics.The 13 people were arrested Tuesday on insurance fraud and grand...
Jun 18 2008 // An upstate New York trucking company is accused of underreporting its payroll by $2.2 million, costing the state Insurance Fund more than $300,000 in lost workers’ compensation premiums.The state Insurance Department...
Jun 17 2008 // A San Diego man has been sentenced for insurance fraud. On May 21, 2008, Ramon Romo was sentenced to 180 days in San Diego Superior Court and ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution in addition to $680 in fines.On...
Jun 16 2008 // Insurance fraud in California totals more than $15 billion each year, costing each resident an average of more than $500 per year. That’s the estimate published in a report recently issued by California Insurance...
Jun 13 2008 // Mississippi officials arrested four more people in Hurricane Katrina fraud cases. Auditor Stacey Pickering says James Hodge of Wiggins, 45, of Mississippi, is facing a felony charge of home repair fraud. Pickering says...
Jun 13 2008 // A Corbin, Ky. woman is in custody after being indicted on a felony count of insurance fraud, the Kentucky Office of Insurance reported.According to court documents, Christine V. Young filled out an application for...
Jun 13 2008 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long said state officials arrested two Laurinburg men on suspicion of conspiracy to commit arson and insurance fraud.Officials arrested William Angus McGirt, 71, and Franklin Lacy...
Jun 13 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested a Kinston woman for embezzlement and obtaining property by false pretense, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long.Department of Insurance investigators arrested Terri Lynn Spence,...
Jun 13 2008 // Former Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce’s insurance fraud trial is going to be held in federal court in Pittsburgh, not Erie.Senior U.S. District Judge Maurice Cohill has granted a defense request to move the trial...
Jun 11 2008 // A Tennessee trucker faces 193 charges for workers’ compensation fraud in Virginia, according to Virginia authorities.Virginia State Police special agents detained William Douglas Pickel on May 21 as Big Sandy Federal...
Jun 11 2008 // Auto thefts on Oahu is down by more than 40 percent over a five-year period.Car thefts dropped from a record high of nearly 8,500 in 2002 — an average of more than 23 vehicles per day — to just under 5,000...
Jun 10 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during April 2008 include nine license revocations, two license denials and fines and restitution totaling $771,165. The today...
Jun 10 2008 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Cover All, Inc., a 15-year old flooring and carpet installation company headquartered Chatsworth, pled no contest to one count of insurance fraud in Los Angeles...
Jun 9 2008 // Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced Olav A. Flores, 35, of Cedar Glen, surrendered himself to San Bernardino Superior Court after learning an arrest warrant was issued charging him with one count of insurance...
Jun 6 2008 // Mississippi has a new tool to help residents avoid contractors who may take their money and run, especially families still rebuilding from Hurricane Katrina.Attorney General Jim Hood said his office’s Web site,...
Jun 6 2008 // A Connecticut prosecutor says he will seek a retrial after a jury deadlocked earlier this week in an insurance fraud case against the owner of a dump truck that caused a fatal wreck in Avon in 2005.Hartford Superior Court...
Jun 5 2008 // A company owned by Ogden, Utah, developer Gadi Leshem has agreed to repay $6.3 million in workers’ compensation premiums stemming from a case in California.Los Angeles officials say Cover-All Inc., a carpet and...
Jun 2 2008 // Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner dispatched California Department of Insurance fraud investigators and staff to the Summit Fire zones near Santa Cruz, Calif. to provide assistance to survivors as they face the daunting...
Jun 2 2008 // The biggest barrier to effectively prosecuting individuals who commit insurance fraud is finding an effective prosecutor, Scott Cassidy, chief of special prosecutions, Cook County State’s Attorney’s office said...