All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 6 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced insurance agent Christy Vocque of Saline County has been sentenced to serve 60 days in a regional correction facility for committing insurance fraud. Vocque,...
Jul 5 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman recently announced the conviction of Elesha Martin, 35, to three counts of arson and one count of insurance fraud.On June 22, 2007, Pulaski County Circuit Judge Marion...
Jul 2 2007 // A 22-year-old intern was given the responsibility of safeguarding the personal information of thousands of state employees in Ohio, a security procedure that ended up backfiring.The names and Social Security numbers of all...
Jul 2 2007 // Virginia State Police are using digital cameras that can scan highways and parking lots for hot cars and stolen license plates.Using the digital images, police can compare the plates against any database of license plates:...
Jun 29 2007 // A former insurance agent and former owner of the Culpepper Insurance Agency in Baltimore has pleaded guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County to felony insurance fraud, according to Maryland Attorney General...
Jun 29 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced that a California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigation has exposed the fraudulent activity of Newport Beach, Calif., resident and former insurance broker,...
Jun 29 2007 // An eastern Kentucky coal mine operator who lied to insurance companies about the number of employees he had was sentenced to three years in prison on Monday. Harold Simpson, who has operated mines in several eastern...
Jun 28 2007 // A Middleborough, Mass. couple have been indicted on charges they committed fraud when they attempted to collect insurance money for a barn they deliberately destroyed and then reported to be collapsed.Officials said that...
Jun 27 2007 // Independent distributors have filed a lawsuit accusing USANA Health Sciences Inc. of fraud and deception, the latest public-relations blow for the marketer of vitamins and nutritional supplements.The lawsuit, which seeks...
Jun 26 2007 // A Charlotte, N.C. faces six felony charges including three counts of identity theft and three counts of insurance fraud, according to Insurance Commissioner Jim Long. Insurance Department investigators allege that Leetwain...
Jun 26 2007 // Tanya Cornelia Dampier and her husband, Charles Ray Dampier, both former insurance agents in Rancho Cucamonga, Calif., have been arrested for attempting to defraud at least 13 insurance companies of more than $750,000,...
Jun 25 2007 // The U.S. Supreme Court last Thursday imposed a strict standard that investors must meet to keep alive their lawsuits alleging securities fraud.In an 8-1 decision, the justices said that courts must weigh possible innocent...
Jun 25 2007 // The owners of 32 businesses have been accused of lying about their employees to avoid paying into the workers’ compensation fund, state regulators said.The Westchester businesses, mostly small restaurants and delis,...
Jun 25 2007 // Virginia State Police are using digital cameras that can scan highways and parking lots for hot cars and stolen license plates.Using the digital images, police can compare the plates against any database of license plates:...
Jun 25 2007 // Policyholders defrauded by an insurance agent who killed herself in late March will be getting their premiums back in full, in a settlement of the largest insurance premium fraud cause in North Dakota history.Insurance...
Jun 25 2007 // Former Arkansas insurance agent Beverly Gowan was sentenced in White County Circuit Court to 18 months detention with the Department of Community Correction for two counts of insurance fraud and one count of Theft of...
Jun 25 2007 // A Southern California agent has been convicted of one felony count of grand theft and sentenced to serve jail time and pay full restitution to her victims for stealing more than $11,000 from her clients. According to...
Jun 21 2007 // Northern Kentucky residents are being alerted that an Erlanger business owner is under investigation for selling bogus auto insurance policies, according to Kentucky’s Insurance Commissioner.The Kentucky Office of...
Jun 20 2007 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced that Kelly Cain pleaded guilty earlier this month to one felony count and one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud.Cain, 27, of Shinnston, admitted June 14...
Jun 18 2007 // Violent crime increased 1.3 percent in 2006 when compared with data from 2005. However, property crime decreased 2.9 percent for the same time period, according to the FBI.Violent crime was up, except in the Northeast....