All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 4 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., grand jury indicted five individuals in multiple cases involving insurance fraud last week, according to the state’s Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline,.Tina Marie Browning, 40, of...
Feb 4 2008 // A federal judge in Houston said Friday she will evaluate whether three high profile financial institutions being sued for $40 billion in connection with Enron Corp.’s collapse should be dropped from litigation after...
Jan 31 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance December 2007 resulted in eight license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $1,591,264, the department reported.An order...
Jan 31 2008 // A former Westport, Wash., mayor and ex-state trooper has been convicted of involvement in a scheme to commit insurance fraud, a case involving a nonexistent 1949 Chevrolet Woody and a dead State Patrol sergeant.Douglas...
Jan 30 2008 // The ongoing crisis at the second largest French bank, Société Générale, has prompted Lloyd’s to remind the financial community of some unfortunate facts. The bank lost €4.9 billion, or $7.25 billion, after it...
Jan 30 2008 // Gov. Jim Gibbons said this week he’s forming a task force that will focus on organized insurance fraud and auto theft in Nevada.The panel will try to determine the statewide scope of such problems and their affect on...
Jan 29 2008 // West Virginia officials arrested a Boone County man for insurance fraud late last month. West Virginia State Police arrested Mathew J. Harrison, 27, of Bim, W. Va., on Dec. 21, 2007, and charged him with five felony counts...
Jan 29 2008 // A Raleigh County Grand Jury indicted a Coal City, W. Va., couple for insurance fraud, according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline.On Jan. 16, Mathew and Jennifer Nichols were each indicted on two felony counts of...
Jan 28 2008 // A Georgia doctor accused of treating patients with a chemical used in pesticides was sentenced to five years probation for health care fraud. Sentenced on Jan. 24, Dr. Totada Shanthaveerappa pleaded guilty Oct. 30 to...
Jan 27 2008 // Investigations by New York’s insurance frauds bureau led to over 700 arrests last year, a 17 percent increase from 2006, according to an annual report from the state insurance department.The bureau, established in...
Jan 27 2008 // Crime rates dropped for the first time in two years, according to a newly released report of the most recent data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nationwide, violent crime fell 1.8 percent and property...
Jan 27 2008 // The Workers’ Compensation Fund, one of Utah’s largest insurers, is working to recover a stolen laptop that held personal data records for some 2,800 people.The laptop was taken Dec. 9 from an auditor’s...
Jan 25 2008 // Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood says his office opened a new criminal investigation of State Farm Insurance Cos. that is separate from its earlier probe of the insurer’s “crimes against...
Jan 25 2008 // A bill requested by Washington State Attorney General Rob McKenna to make it easier to prosecute identity theft cases is scheduled for a public hearing today before the House Judiciary Committee.“Records custodians...
Jan 24 2008 // Officials arrested 47 Floridians so far in a statewide, three-day operation that began Tuesday and will continue through today, targeting 84 individuals for various insurance fraud charges, according to Florida Chief...
Jan 23 2008 // West Virginia officials said a Braxton County man pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of fraudulent schemes. According to a West Virginia Department of Insurance announcement, Fred Lee Morgan, 61, of Frametown, used...
Jan 23 2008 // A Bernalillo County, N.M., grand jury has indicted an Albuquerque insurance agent on multiple charges of insurance fraud, embezzlement and racketeering. Jorge Gimenez, 58, was being held in the Bernalillo County...
Jan 23 2008 // The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in connection with the...
Jan 22 2008 // Two former Monroe, La., police officers have been acquitted in federal court on allegations they committed insurance fraud.A 12-person jury returned the verdicts in the case against Brandon Brooks and former police union...
Jan 22 2008 // The fraud and corruption trial of former state Deputy Insurance Superintendent Joe Ruiz, who is accused of trying to coerce an insurance company to donate money to his favorite charity rather than pay state fines, will...