All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 15 2006 // Amica Insurance has a new partnership with Arizona-based Identity Theft 911, a provider of identity fraud education and resolution services. Amica is providing its policyholders with access to the service. Identity Theft...
Nov 14 2006 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Julie Benafield Bowman announced that on Oct. 27, 2006, Curtis Moore of Jonesboro entered a negotiated plea of guilty to one count of Class B felony Theft of Property for his involvement in...
Nov 13 2006 // A suburban Philadelphia man was charged with insurance fraud after authorities said he reported his dead wife’s ring stolen and then tried to sell it online.Police said Gary Blank, 37, of Bensalem, Bucks County,...
Nov 13 2006 // Financial Investigator Jeff Leovic, a member of Medical Mutual of Ohio’s Financial Investigations unit, is among the winners of the 2006 National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association’s (NHCAA) Investigation of...
Nov 9 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., recently announced that three more individuals have been arrested on charges of theft related to contractor fraud.On Oct. 23, 2006, Richard Eric Williford was arrested by...
Nov 9 2006 // A Pennsylvania man has been indicted for his alleged role in an auto theft and insurance fraud ring in New jersey, accrding to state officials.New Jersey Attorney General Stuart Rabner and Division of Criminal Justice...
Nov 8 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 Thursday.No...
Nov 8 2006 // Two Honda sedan models lead the latest list of vehicles most often stolen in Arizona.According to the latest annual study by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, the 1991 Honda Accord and 1995 Honda Civic were ranked as...
Nov 6 2006 // Standing before a federal judge and pleading for his life, Jeffrey Skilling looked contrite, hands folded below his waist, his voice at one point halting as he talked about Enron Corp., the failed company he headed and...
Nov 6 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...
Nov 5 2006 // Michigan Attorney General Mike Cox is warning consumers to be aware of a telephone scam in which phony information is transmitted through Caller ID as a ruse to con individuals into providing illicit callers with sensitive...
Nov 5 2006 // Standing before a federal judge and pleading for his life, Jeffrey Skilling looked contrite, hands folded below his waist, his voice at one point halting as he talked about Enron Corp., the failed company he headed and...
Nov 5 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...
Nov 3 2006 // An Oklahoma City man was charged with six felony counts of home repair fraud after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Consumer Protection Unit.Alfred W. Soulek, 56, allegedly took more than $16,000...
Nov 3 2006 // An employee of a Chatsworth, Calif., construction company has been ordered to pay $35,263 in restitution to the California State Compensation Insurance Fund in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. Alejandro...
Nov 2 2006 // Nearly three dozen people face fraud charges after federal authorities set up a phony chiropractic clinic as part of a sting operation that focused on personal-injury claims from supposed automobile accidents, authorities...
Nov 2 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 survey released this week.The study done for Experian, the credit...
Nov 1 2006 // For 2005, the most stolen vehicle in the nation was the 1991 Honda Accord, according to Hot Wheels, the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s companion study to its annual Hot Spots auto theft report.The study examines...
Nov 1 2006 // A Rayville, La., insurance agent was shut down on charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds, Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Jim Donelon announced.Tracy E. Antley, 44, was ordered to cease and desist from engaging...
Nov 1 2006 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Arthur Menard of Spring, Texas, pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges and a Travis County district court sentenced him to 14 months in jail. The...