All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 25 2008 // Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans’ personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have...
Feb 25 2008 // A crime victim’s assistance group will help those harmed by identity theft and fraud under a $500,000 grant announced Thursday.The Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center plans to use the money to provide direct...
Feb 25 2008 // Daniel Wilson, a former insurance defense attorney, has been named legal specialist for the Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police in Richmond.Wilson’s responsibilities include acting as a liaison...
Feb 25 2008 // A federal court jury in Hartford, Connecticut has found four former General Re Corp. executives and one former American International Group executive guilty of corporate fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from...
Feb 22 2008 // A Beaumont, Texas man pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FEMA in seeking disaster relief after Hurricane Rita. Wilyum Henderson, 50, entered the plea in federal court in Beaumont. The U.S. Attorney’s...
Feb 21 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., man, who was indicted on a felony count of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim to an insurance company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud, according...
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
Feb 20 2008 // A Putnam County, W. Va. man pleaded guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud for his involvement in disposing of his wife’s minivan by pushing it over a hill on Poplar Fork Road in January of 2007 according to...
Feb 19 2008 // AXA Art, the specialty branch of France’s AXA Group that offers coverage for art works, has issued a bulletin “offering to conduct security protocol assessments of museums in its key markets. The goal is to...
Feb 15 2008 // W. Va. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline announced that a West Hamlin man who was indicted on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, pleaded guilty to the charges in Kanawha County Circuit...
Feb 14 2008 // A N.Y. junkyard owner has been charged with masterminding a scheme to sell high-mileage vehicles to illegal aliens and then insure the vehicles through his own garage policy.Officials said 61-year-old William Hrazanek of...
Feb 11 2008 // A Fargo, N.D. insurance agent has pleaded guilty to 38 felony charges as part of a plea agreement recommending that he serve a total of two years in prison.Sixty-one-year-old David Skjerven (SHUR’-ven) also would pay...
Feb 11 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. recently announced that it is now offering a comprehensive “Life Stages” identity management program providing free access to proactive and resolution services for...
Feb 10 2008 // The Coalition reports that nearly one of four Americans say it’s ok to defraud insurers. Some 8 percent say it’s “quite acceptable” to bilk insurers, while 16 percent say it’s “somewhat...
Feb 10 2008 // Officials arrested 47 Floridians so far in a statewide, three-day operation, targeting 84 individuals for various insurance fraud charges, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink.The arrests, which took...
Feb 10 2008 // A glass-eating gypsy, a teacher who faked terminal cancer, and an insurance agent who killed homeless clients are among the top insurance swindlers of 2007. These convicted thieves were inducted into the Insurance Fraud...
Feb 10 2008 // Ronald Evano took great pains to bilk insurers. Literally.The self-described gypsy shook down insurers, restaurants, bars and other businesses along the East Coast by swallowing broken glass and claiming the shards were...
Feb 8 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a licensed professional counselor has pleaded guilty to charges of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case in a Travis County, Texas, district court.John Ann...
Feb 6 2008 // An Augusta, Ga., man is charged with insurance fraud for allegedly converting to his own use money paid to him by an elderly client, according to Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine.Carl Barcus, 58, arrested on Jan....
Feb 6 2008 // Sequoia Insurance Co., based in Monterey, Calif., announces the release of restoration coverage for identity theft. For a minimal additional cost, identity theft recovery coverage can be added to Sequoia’s...