All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 31 2007 // Law enforcement officers from five Calif. counties have served 58 arrest warrants for insurance fraud and related charges, such as grand theft, receiving stolen property and perjury, following investigations of alleged...
May 30 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has unveiled a series of reforms to address what he says are systemic and structural deficiencies in the state’s workers’ compensation system. He also recommended...
May 30 2007 // The Texas Department of Insurance issued an alert to agents and consumers concerning a nontraditional insurance product offering it is investigating. The bulletin advised Texas insurance agents to exercise caution with...
May 29 2007 // A Helena, Mont., woman who used a check scheme to steal nearly $158,000 from her employer has been sentenced to four years in prison.A federal judge imposed the sentence on 43-year-old Margaret Blixt, and ordered $157,710...
May 23 2007 // A once high-flying asbestos litigation attorney was ready to plead guilty Monday to fraud involving thousands of clients, but a federal judge in Miami has rejected the deal and set a date for trial, saying he was unhappy...
May 23 2007 // Almost every business – from retail to healthcare to professional services – handles personal information such as credit card numbers, social security numbers, and healthcare records. Many businesses think they...
May 23 2007 // A California medical clinic administrator and law office administator have been sentenced for insurance fraud. According to the California Department of Insurance, Magdalena Zanoletti, 54, a medical clinic administrator,...
May 23 2007 // A doctor and his biller were convicted Monday on 80 counts of health care fraud and other charges related to an effort to bilk Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan of $775,000, the U.S. attorney’s office said.A federal...
May 22 2007 // Maryland became only the second state to make staging an car accident to steal insurance money a specific crime when Gov. Martin O’Malley signed a bill into law last week.According to the Coalition Against Insurance...
May 22 2007 // The Raleigh County, W. Va. Prosecutor’s Office indicted a Raleigh County resident on one felony count of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation benefits.Angel M. Delung, 34, of Shady Springs, allegedly filed...
May 22 2007 // Insurance agents have sold fraudulent Medicare plans to an estimated 1,000 Mississippians over the past year, forcing them to spend months untangling the mess to regain coverage under a traditional Medicare program.State...
May 21 2007 // The former owner and operator of a now-defunct professional employee organization, Miralink Group Inc., left thousands of workers in Florida and several other states without workers’ compensation coverage despite...
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion.California Capones Modern-day...
May 21 2007 // A man who sold bogus medical malpractice insurance to Fargo’s Red River Women’s Clinic and other abortion providers nationwide has been sentenced to serve nearly six years in prison.William Ledee III, 64, of...
May 21 2007 // For years, Al Capone outwitted federal efforts to nail him for murder and other mobster-type crimes. The feds finally took him down with a breathtakingly simple courtroom gambit: tax evasion.California Capones Modern-day...
May 18 2007 // A pair of Texas men face a variety of charges after Louisiana authorities say they stole identities and defrauded businesses in three states of more than $1 million.Michael McDowell, 30, and Jason Mark Freeman, 31, both of...
May 18 2007 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a Baton Rouge-area bail bond agent has been arrested and issued a cease and desist order and summary suspension of his insurance license for allegedly misappropriating...
May 17 2007 // The California Department of Insurance and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office have arrested three doctors for medical fraud. The doctors are the latest charged defendants in what’s being dubbed the...
May 17 2007 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Cecil R. Bryant of DeSoto, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. A Dallas County court ordered Bryant to serve a five-year probated...
May 17 2007 // Tyco International Ltd. has agreed to pay about $3 billion to settle shareholder claims from one of the largest corporate fraud cases ever, ending uncertainty over the outcome of the legal battle as it prepares to split...