All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 22 2007 // Florida drivers will still need to purchase property damage liability insurance even if the state’s no-fault insurance system disappears Oct. 1, a lawyer for the Department of Highway Safety and Motor Vehicles...
Aug 21 2007 // Florida officials arrested eight individuals accused of various insurance fraud schemes including auto body damage, Personal Injury Protection, and hurricane claim fraud.Two of the arrested persons face up to 55 years in...
Aug 21 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced former insurance agent John Phillip Middleton, a Van Buren resident with an office in Fort Smith, has been sentenced by Judge James Cox, Sebastian County...
Aug 21 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four workers’ compensation claimants were sentenced, in separate cases, for fraud. The claimants collected a combined $17,346 in benefits they were not entitled to, the...
Aug 21 2007 // Suspended Superior Court Judge Michael T. Joyce pleaded not guilty Monday to federal charges of mail fraud and money laundering, but abandoned his re-election campaign and said he plans to retire when his term expires in...
Aug 20 2007 // Two brothers in Woodland Hills, Calif., have been arrested and charged with felony insurance fraud, conspiracy and perjury. According to the California Department of Insurance, Masood D. Pymanee, 32, and Mahboob D....
Aug 20 2007 // Northland Insurance, a subsidiary of Travelers, announced the addition of Identity Theft Expense Reimbursement Coverage to transportation policies where available, at no additional charge.“Identity theft is one of...
Aug 17 2007 // A Pennsylvania Superior Court judge collected insurance money after claiming a car accident made him unable to exercise or play golf, but then played golf, went inline skating and received his pilot’s license,...
Aug 17 2007 // A Massachusetts man pleaded guilty this week to his role in a multistate scheme in which prosecutors say he and his wife intentionally ate glass at restaurants and collected more than $200,000 in compensation.Ronald Evano,...
Aug 17 2007 // Billings, Mont., businessman Michael W. Ryan has been sentenced to 71 months in prison and fined $100,000 for defrauding customers in a windshield replacement scheme.Ryan, the former owner of Thrifty Car Rental in...
Aug 17 2007 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger announced today that the Kansas Insurance Department, along with Johnson County authorities and the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, were involved in the case of a former...
Aug 16 2007 // A 37 year old Ronkonkoma, New York woman has paid $41,160 in restitution and faces five years probation after pleading guilty in a case of workers’ compensation fraud against the New York State Insurance...
Aug 16 2007 // An investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division and four additional state law enforcement groups has led to the arrest of multiple alleged automobile insurance fraud perpetrators. Four...
Aug 15 2007 // Senator Chris Dodd, D-Conn., chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, has asked President Bush to back the Securities and Exchange Commission in its support of plaintiffs in a so-called...
Aug 15 2007 // A fire that damaged the office of an elementary school in Fairfield, Ala., was intentionally set, State Fire Marshal Ed Paulk said last week. “There is evidence of a break-in and theft, as well as the presence of an...
Aug 14 2007 // A 27-year-old Manchester, New Hampshire woman faces a court date later this month on charges she defrauded her auto insurance company. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Inge Lasut filed a claim with Progressive Northern...
Aug 8 2007 // A 30-year law enforcement veteran will run Florida’s Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud – a statewide agency that investigates fraud in all lines of insurance.Vicki Cutcliffe most...
Aug 8 2007 // A Kanawha County Grand Jury indicted two West Virginia employers on multiple charges relating to failing to subscribe to the former Workers’ Compensation Commission.On the indictment of Susan Borman and Leonard Cox,...
Aug 7 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott cited Minnesota-based Lifetime Fitness and subsidiaries LTF Club Management Company L.L.C. and LTF Club Operations Company Inc., for systematically exposing its customers to identity...
Aug 7 2007 // Several Ohio state officials told investigators they believed the state was overreacting in its response to the theft of a sensitive computer backup tape, which could now cost $3 million as more individuals sign up for...