All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 5 2007 // Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that his office has arrested an individual suspected of defrauding numerous homeowners in Orleans, Jefferson and St. Charles Parish who were trying to repair their...
Mar 5 2007 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit announced it arrested Becky Roberts, of West Monroe, in Ouachita Parish on Feb. 23, 2007, for insurance fraud (2 counts) and forgery.State Police said an investigation...
Mar 5 2007 // A Pomona, Calif., woman has been arrested after authorities followed a signal from an electronic tracking device installed in a car she reported stolen, officials said.Elva Padilla surrendered to authorities after learning...
Mar 2 2007 // Republican lawmakers had no legal authority to ask the Ohio Supreme Court to throw out a veto Democratic Gov. Ted Strickland carried out on his first day in office, the state’s top lawyer said this week.Attorney...
Mar 2 2007 // At least two Picasso paintings, worth a total of €50 million ($66 million), have been stolen from the artist’s granddaughter’s home in Paris, police said Wednesday.The paintings, “Maya and the...
Mar 1 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner has named his 14-member executive team at the Department of Insurance.Earlier in February, Poizner was criticized for naming insurance industry representative, Bill...
Feb 26 2007 // Contrary to popular opinion and despite well-publicized security breaches at governmental entities and major corporations, the primary methods of confiscating the information necessary to commit identity theft turn out to...
Feb 26 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced that suspected insurance fraud ringleader, Frederick Watson, turned himself in to Little Rock Police on Feb. 13, 2007.Watson is alleged to have masterminded...
Feb 25 2007 // Contrary to popular opinion and despite well-publicized security breaches at governmental entities and major corporations, the primary methods of confiscating the information necessary to commit identity theft turn out to...
Feb 25 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced that suspected insurance fraud ringleader, Frederick Watson, turned himself in to Little Rock Police on Feb. 13, 2007.Watson is alleged to have masterminded...
Feb 23 2007 // You’re at the track and the pony you bet on came up a winner. Your homework paid off—you knew the horse likes the mud and the inside post and has a family tree full of Triple Crown winners. You go to collect your...
Feb 21 2007 // Three members of the Kansas Insurance Department, Ted Clark, Anti-Fraud director, Larry Bruning, chief actuary, and Neil Woerman, director of Information Technology, have been appointed to various leadership positions...
Feb 20 2007 // The 2007 Ohio Insurance Fraud Seminar will be conducted Thursday, March 15 at Quest Conference Centers, located at 8405 Pulsar Place in Columbus. The hosts are the Ohio Department of Insurance, the Ohio Chapter of the...
Feb 16 2007 // Marsh UK announced that it has “developed a pioneering new product addressing the fraud and crime risks faced by financial institutions.” Describing the coverage as “the only product of its kind,”...
Feb 15 2007 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced suspected insurance fraud ringleader, Frederick Watson, turned himself in to Little Rock Police on Feb. 13, 2007.Watson is alleged to have masterminded a car...
Feb 13 2007 // West Virginbia’s Marion County Prosecutor’s Office and the Office of the Insurance Commissioner’s Fraud Unit indicted Foster Glen Carnes of Marion County earlier this month on one felony count of filing a...
Feb 12 2007 // High-profile crackdowns on auto insurance fraud have resulted in dramatic savings for drivers in some Massachusetts communities.The statewide average premium is scheduled to drop by nearly 12 percent on April 1, but...
Feb 12 2007 // Government secrecy “It’s another nail in the coffin of open government.”Rep. Marc Feinstein, D-Sioux Falls, reacting to a measure that passed the South Dakota House that would close the driving records of...
Feb 12 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner may have three major priorities for his office — to make his office non-partisan, to fight insurance fraud and to prepare the state for the next major disaster —...
Feb 11 2007 // High-profile crackdowns on auto insurance fraud have resulted in dramatic savings for drivers in some Massachusetts communities.The statewide average premium is scheduled to drop by nearly 12 percent on April 1, but...