All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 21 2006 // Eight people were charged have been charged with defrauding insurance companies by registering commercial motor vehicle fleets in upstate New York to avoid higher premiums in New York City, Albany County District Attorney...
Dec 21 2006 // Crustaceans and clams starred as unlikely informants in a workers’ compensation fraud case in Hancock County, Maine. An almost three-year case of “something’s fishy” finally ended this week with the...
Dec 20 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Houston nurse has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.The Travis County 299th Judicial District Court sentenced Brenda Hernandez to five years...
Dec 20 2006 // An Oklahoma man is facing 10 years in prison, and his wife will serve a three-year prison sentence after pleading guilty to five counts of violating the Oklahoma Solicitation of Charitable Contributions Act, Attorney...
Dec 19 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson recently issued a consumer alert warning customers of First State Bank in Ketchum about a scam currently being perpetrated in the area.Edmondson issued the warning after the bank...
Dec 15 2006 // Two investigators with the North Carolina Department of Insurance, Chet Effler of Marion, N.C., and Martha Ann Ford of Chester, S.C., have been honored for their work on insurance fraud cases in 2006.Effler received an...
Dec 15 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that seven individuals were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The individuals allegedly collected a combined $31,358...
Dec 15 2006 // A New York business owner faces charges of insurance fraud following his arrest by Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau’s office for allegedly defrauding the New York State Insurance Fund of more than...
Dec 15 2006 // San Diego Superior Court Judge William H. McAdam has ordered the owners of a San Diego area roofing company to pay $3 million in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund, $81,649 in investigation...
Dec 14 2006 // An Alaska man has pled guilty to theft in the second degree, a class B felony, stemming from a fraudulent insurance claim, according to the state Division of Insurance Office of Special Prosecution and Appeals. Earlier...
Dec 14 2006 // Federal securities regulators are moving to ease some financial-control rules for thousands of smaller public companies at the same time they look to stiffen requirements for individuals to invest in fast-growing hedge...
Dec 14 2006 // Computer records containing personal information of about 130,000 members of Connecticut-based health insurer Aetna Inc. were stolen from the office of a vendor, the company said.A lockbox stolen during an Oct. 26 break-in...
Dec 13 2006 // Deborah K. Wildberger of Morgan County was convicted earlier this month on three felony counts of insurance fraud.According to the West Virginia Insurance Commission, Wildberger was found guilty of soliciting a tenant,...
Dec 12 2006 // An Albany, La., insurance agent was recently arrested and issued a cease and desist order on charges of fraud, forgery and misappropriation of funds, the Louisiana Department of Insurance reported.Roberta Ann...
Dec 11 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Dec 11 2006 // The former president of Crop Hail Management Inc. in Bigfork, Mont., has been sentenced to more than three years in prison and ordered to pay $512,000 in restitution for money laundering and fraud.Myron “Mike”...
Dec 11 2006 // More than 40 percent of consumers would like their homeowners insurance carrier to offer coverage for identity theft, according to a study released by J.D. Power and Associates.The “2006 Homeowners Insurance...
Dec 10 2006 // Identity-related fraud is a virulent crime, with 3.5 times the aggregate losses of all property crimes, such as burglary, larceny and vehicle theft, reported last year. In today’s technology/information-driven...
Dec 10 2006 // California Attorney General Bill Lockyer has released the Department of Justice’s “Crime in 2006, January Through June” preliminary report showing property crime decreased by 2.8 percent compared to the...
Dec 8 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during October 2006.The actions include three license revocations, two license denials and fines and...