All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 3 2006 // Former shareholders of Tyco International Ltd., whose former chief executive and chief financial officer were convicted of fraud, have been certified as a class to sue the company and its accounting firm, Pricewaterhouse...
Jul 3 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...
Jun 30 2006 // A Sutton, Mass. man pleaded guilty to worker’s compensation fraud and larceny over $250 in Worcester Superior Court, according to Attorney General Tom Reilly.Hal Tyree, 51, of Sutton pleaded guilty to one charge each...
Jun 30 2006 // The names, birthdates and Social Security numbers of about 1,200 Allen County government employees were on a computer stolen from an insurance company office, officials said.Several Allen County employees received letters...
Jun 30 2006 // Caifornia’s State Compensation Insurance Fund recently received $64,000 in restitution from the owner of a San Luis Obispo county moving company. Mark John Frey, 38, of Oceano, Calif., pleaded no contest on May 15 to...
Jun 30 2006 // Twenty-five suspects in connection with a major insurance fraud investigation dubbed “Operation Cashout” have been indicted, according to the California Department of Insurance. Twenty suspects were arrested...
Jun 30 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during May. The actions include eight license revocations and fines and restitution totaling...
Jun 29 2006 // RTW Rehabilitation Services Inc. of Baltimore, Md. has pleaded guilty to one charge of mail fraud in federal court in Charleston, W.Va. and ordered to pay $40,000 in restitution to the West Virginia Offices of the...
Jun 28 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during April.The actions include four license revocations, three license denials and fines and...
Jun 28 2006 // A former Hillside, New Jersey police officer has been sentenced to one year in jail and barred from public employment for taking part in a chop shop insurance scheme.Dennis Melendez, who had been on the Hillside department...
Jun 28 2006 // Two Miami-Dade County residents have been arrested for attempting to defraud the Florida Medicaid program out of more than $69,000, according to Attorney General Charlie Crist. Hortensiz I. Escoto and Ricardo Isidro Escoto...
Jun 27 2006 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran, Jr. reported the filing of felony insurance fraud and felony theft charges against Joseph J. Muehleison, an insurance agent and former president of Commercial Lines Corporation...
Jun 26 2006 // Two Baton Rouge, La., men and a Donaldsonville attorney face charges of conspiring to defraud an insurance company of $100,000, according to the Louisiana State Police.Investigators believe Glenn Davis, 55, and Jessie...
Jun 26 2006 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman says attorneys will draft a proposed order to be sent to a company next week in response to the theft of personal information from some of its customers.Poolman said the...
Jun 26 2006 // Anti-fraud legislation that cracks down on and reins in auto insurance fraud was signed June 26 by Gov. Jeb Bush. The action applauded by Tom Gallagher, Florida CFO, who oversees law enforcement agencies involved in...
Jun 23 2006 // Incumbent Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger and candidate hopeful State Rep. Eric Carter got to the point, so to speak, recently when they spoke before members of the Wichita Association of Health Underwriters.A point...
Jun 23 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the early morning arrests of 20 suspects involved in a staged auto collision ring dubbed “Operation Freeway Squat.” The bust targeted a major auto...
Jun 21 2006 // The Florida Department of Financial Services has released its annual “Top-10 Fraud List,” summarizing 10 of the costliest or boldest securities, finance and insurance fraud scams investigated by the DFS...
Jun 21 2006 // Californians Clyde and Jackie Sewell, both 52, owners of North Pointe Enterprises Inc., and their daughter, Toni Studer, 30, were arrested at their place of business.The Sewells, who are residents of Elverta, Calif., were...
Jun 20 2006 // California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund has received restitution of $599,817 from the owner of a San Diego framing company convicted of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Robert H. Rodriguez, 50, of...