All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 6 2006 // The typical U.S. driver will pay less for auto insurance in 2007 than in 2006, with the average premium expenditure expected to drop by 0.5 percent, reported the industry-backed Insurance Information Institute.The average...
Dec 5 2006 // In what officials describe as the largest auto insurance fraud ring in North Carolina history, 10 residents of Cleveland and Rutherford Counties are accused of defrauding insurance companies of an estimated $1...
Dec 1 2006 // Three Floridians who provided key information that led to the arrests of four individuals for insurance fraud totaling more than $35,000 earned $2,500 in rewards.The Department of Financial Services has awarded $94,000 as...
Dec 1 2006 // Peter Mravlja of Decatur, N.Y., was officially sentenced subsequent to his plea of guilty to felony insurance fraud following a joint investigation into a suspicious fire at his dairy barn on April 20, 2003, according to...
Nov 30 2006 // A Lawrence, Mass. man pleaded guilty this week to an indictment charging that he participated in an auto insurance fraud scheme to bilk insurance companies out of thousands of dollars in false claims, according to state...
Nov 29 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...
Nov 28 2006 // Names, Social Security numbers and home addresses of nearly 1,740 former Chicago school employees were mistakenly mailed to other members of the group, prompting concerns the information could be used for identity...
Nov 27 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman reported that Carolyn Dixon, the owner of Dixon Insurance in Pocahontas, entered a negotiated plea of guilty to two counts of Insurance Fraud (Class D felony) and one...
Nov 22 2006 // The owner of two Kansas City-area medical supply businesses was sentenced Monday to three years in prison without parole for his part in a scheme that bilked Medicare out of millions of dollars.U.S. District Judge Gary A....
Nov 22 2006 // Flagstar Bancorp, Inc. has announced that a federal judge dismissed its lawsuit against an insurance company in a coverage dispute. As a result, Flagstar will record a one-time charge in the fourth quarter of 2006 of...
Nov 22 2006 // A Pocatello, Idaho, man received a one to seven year prison sentence for insurance fraud, Attorney General Lawrence Wasden said. Joshua K. Smith, 26, pleaded guilty to one count of insurance fraud and was sentenced in...
Nov 22 2006 // Montana State Auditor John Morrison announced he has reached a settlement agreement with AmeriPlan to resolve allegations of insurance and securities fraud. In July, Morrison issued a cease and desist order after charging...
Nov 21 2006 // A Zachary, La., man has been sentenced on fraud charges related to a hurricane relief program.Terry Watson, 40, was sentenced to two years probation, a $250 fine, $2,000 in restitution and 50 hours of community service....
Nov 20 2006 // A laptop computer stolen from an insurance brokerage firm contained the names, birth dates and driver’s license numbers of more than 1,200 Villanova University students and staff members, the school said.No Social...
Nov 20 2006 // Nearly three dozen people face fraud charges after federal authorities set up a phony chiropractic clinic in Philadelphia as part of a sting operation that focused on personal-injury claims from supposed automobile...
Nov 20 2006 // More than one in four Americans say their financial information or personal information has been stolen, sometimes by someone they knew, according to a recent survey.The study done for Experian, the credit rating agency,...
Nov 20 2006 // More than one in three (36 percent) private companies, many of which were uninsured, experienced an employee theft averaging nearly $350,000 within the past five years, according to research by the Chubb Group of Insurance...
Nov 19 2006 // Nearly three dozen people face fraud charges after federal authorities set up a phony chiropractic clinic in Philadelphia as part of a sting operation that focused on personal-injury claims from supposed automobile...
Nov 19 2006 // A laptop computer stolen from an insurance brokerage firm contained the names, birth dates and driver’s license numbers of more than 1,200 Villanova University students and staff members, the school said.No Social...
Nov 19 2006 // More than one in four Americans say their financial information or personal information has been stolen, sometimes by someone they knew, according to a recent survey.The study done for Experian, the credit rating agency,...