All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 29 2008 // A Desert Hot Springs, Calif., resident was arrested for allegedly defrauding his insurance company of $26,000, the California Department of Insurance reported. Robert Andrew Nelson, 44, was arrested in Cathedral City,...
Apr 29 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by Texas Insurance Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during March include five license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $130,400.Copies of...
Apr 29 2008 // As the theft of copper wiring and other valuable metals is growing, particularly throughout rural communities, Alabama-based Alfa Insurance is offering an additional $10,000 reward for information leading to a conviction...
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Apr 23 2008 // A prosecutor has decided not to seek criminal charges for the firings of two North Dakota workers compensation agency employees, saying he does not believe he could prove they were victims of illegal retaliation.James...
Apr 23 2008 // A federal judge on Monday dismissed claims of fraud in a key Hurricane Katrina lawsuit that accused State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. of using different engineering reports to deny a Mississippi couple’s insurance...
Apr 21 2008 // Three individuals were arrested in California for allegedly being involved in a five-person conspiracy that resulted in a vehicle owned by one of the conspirators driven to Mexico where it was taken apart so that its parts...
Apr 21 2008 // North Carolina officials arrested a Garner, N.C. man and charged him with one count of insurance fraud and one count of obtaining property by false pretense, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. The charges filed...
Apr 21 2008 // A federal grand jury on April 10 indicted a Louisiana state senator on charges he conspired to launder money for a convicted felon accused of operating an illegal insurance business.Derrick Shepherd, a lawyer from the New...
Apr 21 2008 // Eleven alleged Bay Area fraud perpetrators were arrested on numerous felony counts including insurance fraud, identity theft, possession of stolen property and filing a false tax return. Wireless phone dealers, employees...
Apr 21 2008 // Internet crimes in 2007 cost nearly $240 million, a $40 million increase from 2006, the Federal Bureau of Investigation reported.According to the FBI’s 2007 Internet Crime Report, the Internet Crime Complaint Center...
Apr 18 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced a Los Fresnos, Texas, man on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.The court sentenced Frank Tisdale to five...
Apr 17 2008 // It’s like “Gone in 60 Seconds” with tractor trailers.Thieves steal billions of dollars of electronics, medicine, vehicles and other items from U.S. businesses each year by targeting trucks and other cargo...
Apr 17 2008 // On April 15 the Missouri Supreme Court ruled in favor of a class D felony conviction of Bob Salter of St. Louis, Mo.. Salter was sentenced to one year in prison, fined $5,000 and was assigned an additional $25,000 penalty...
Apr 16 2008 // The Connecticut Insurance Department has revoked the license of a Middlesex County insurance agent who it says forged clients’ signatures and held thousands of dollars in payments in his own bank account. Those...
Apr 14 2008 // A 43-year-old Gautier, Miss. woman has been arrested and charged with one count of insurance fraud, according to Attorney General Jim Hood.Hood said in a statement that Eva Pierce was arrested on April 8. Hood’s...
Apr 14 2008 // West Virginia officials sentenced a Kanawha County man on April 10 for a misdemeanor count of insurance fraud committed in 2006, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline Meddie R. Dunlap, 56, of...
Apr 14 2008 // A federal grand jury on April 10 indicted a Louisiana state senator on charges he conspired to launder money for a convicted felon accused of operating an illegal insurance business.Derrick Shepherd, a lawyer from the New...
Apr 14 2008 // A Cedar Rapids landlord who was convicted of insurance fraud has been charged with lying under oath during his civil trial in January.Robert Miell, 53, was ordered by a federal jury to pay up to $1.5 million to the...
Apr 10 2008 // West Virginia officials sentenced two Kanawha County women on insurance fraud related charges last week, according to Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline.Tina Marie Browning, 40, of Eskdale, W. Va., was indicted on one...