All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 24 2006 // California (9,110 thefts) leads the nation in motorcycle theft rates in 2005, with Florida (6,324) following in second, and Texas (5,755)coming in third, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau.Other states...
Jul 24 2006 // Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency has taken steps to improve its procedures and processes to address fraud, waste and abuse in selling servicing crop insurance policies, many flaws...
Jul 21 2006 // Jerry Lee McClelland Jr. has been arrested on one felony count of receiving workers’ compensation benefits for a term longer than he was entitled, according to West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L....
Jul 21 2006 // A judge striving to be the fairest of them all on Tuesday sentenced to a year in jail a woman who pretended to be a Saudi Arabian princess as she fleeced insurance and credit card companies.It was not a storybook ending...
Jul 21 2006 // Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial...
Jul 20 2006 // An Oklahoma City man was arrested this morning on allegations of home repair fraud after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Consumer Protection Unit.Alan B. Holcombe, 49, was charged yesterday in...
Jul 19 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers’ compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed...
Jul 18 2006 // New York officials have denied a requested 7.5 percent hike in workers compensation premiums and criticized carriers’ attitude towards combating fraud in doing so.The decision means rates will not be going up in...
Jul 18 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently convened the first-ever Illinois Identity Theft Summit. The goal of the summit was to bring representatives from law enforcement, the court system, government, business and...
Jul 18 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that Martha Collins of 1715 Loretta Street, Donaldsonville, La., was arrested on fraud charges stemming from hurricane related tax refunds.According to the...
Jul 17 2006 // Commerce Insurance Company has joined with Identity Theft 911 to offer eligible homeowner policyholders identity resolution services to assist them should they fall victim to identity theft.The services Commerce Insurance...
Jul 14 2006 // Philadelphia Insurance Companies of Bala Cynwyd, Pa. has introduced the “Bell Endorsement,” which provides to 10 additional coverages for organizations and individuals at no additional charge. The coverages...
Jul 12 2006 // Thomas G. Merrill, 70, of Panama City, Fla. has been sentenced to life in prison for multiple charges of wire fraud, health care fraud and distribution of controlled substances according to Attorney General Charlie Crist....
Jul 12 2006 // A Portsmouth, N.H. man was fined and given a suspended prison sentence after pleading guilty to trying to defraud his insurance company, according to officials. The case goes back to 2003, when Jesse Gregoire got into a...
Jul 7 2006 // A program intended to prevent illegal immigrants from fraudulently applying for Medicaid has been delayed in North Carolina, possibly until late September, two months after its scheduled start date, officials said.Until...
Jul 6 2006 // According to Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn, the 2006 Delaware General Assembly session produced some positive accomplishments, but also left some of what he says are his pro-consumer initiatives undone.“There are...
Jul 6 2006 // Blanca Aparicio, manager of United Automobile Insurance Group’s Special Investigative Unit in North Miami Beach, Fla. was honored with the 2006 “Insurance Investigator of the Year Award” presented by the...
Jul 6 2006 // The Baton Rouge, La., Crime Stoppers organization is buying liability insurance designed to protect its board members from lawsuits.The decision to get the insurance, which costs about $2,000 annually, was not because of a...
Jul 5 2006 // Record prices for copper have made the metal an attractive target for thieves in Arkansas, police say, just as it is elsewhere in the country.Little Rock police say copper thefts are “rampant.” Thieves even...
Jul 3 2006 // GAO: The USDA should do more to control fraud in the nation’s crop insurance programAlthough the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency has taken steps to improve its procedures and processes...