All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 3 2006 // evidence’ standard is not required under N.J.’s fraud law.News Currents N.J. Supreme Court lowers bar for proving customer fraudThe New Jersey Supreme Court has set an easier standard of proof for an insurance...
Apr 3 2006 // Kan. and Mo. legislatures consider proposals targeting insurance fraudThe Coalition Against Insurance Fraud is reporting that the Kansas and Missouri legislatures are considering proposals that would require insurers to...
Apr 3 2006 // PIP case referrals to state fraud fighters have soared 327 percent from 2002-2003 to 2004-2005. Actual street arrests have grown nearly 75 percent, and cases sent for possible prosecution have soared nearly 50 percent,...
Apr 3 2006 // Washington Legislature moves quickly in election yearWashington’s legislature wrapped up a short session in March, addressing its budgets and tackling “many controversial issues,” including Columbia River...
Mar 31 2006 // After revising a bill to extend the Florida no-fault auto insurance system to remove a proposed medical fee schedule, the Senate has passed it on to the Healthcare Committee for further consideration.Members of the Florida...
Mar 31 2006 // A San Bernardino, Calif., employer has been arrested for wrongly accusing an employee of workers compensation fraud, according to the California Department of Insurance. Matthew Day, 26, was arrested after surrendering...
Mar 29 2006 // Washington State has approved the state’s first fraud bureau and added a fraud prosecutor. Gov. Christine Gregoire signed SB 6234 into law late Tuesday. The measure decisively passed the state House and Senate...
Mar 28 2006 // The Coalition Against Consumer Fraud and the Ohio Department of Insurance have reported that two former dental office employees, Alberta Fay Clark and Tammie Creamer, have been indicted for alleged insurance fraud, theft...
Mar 27 2006 // A federal judge in New Haven, Conn. ordered Martin Frankel to serve the same sentence he got in 2004 for stealing $200 million from insurance companies, nearly 17 years in a federal prison.The former financier was ordered...
Mar 27 2006 // A Lafayette, La., cardiologist has been indicted on 94 counts of health care fraud for allegedly performing unnecessary procedures on patients then billing their health insurance providers, U.S. Attorney Donald Washington...
Mar 27 2006 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson and AARP Oklahoma are warning Oklahomans of an identity theft scam that uses the threat of arrest to steal personal information from its victims.“The scam is initiated by a...
Mar 27 2006 // A Miami-Dade County man has been arrested for practicing dentistry without a license and submitting fraudulent Medicaid claims according to Florida’s Attorney General Charlie Crist.Orlando Sotolongo Guarton allegedly...
Mar 24 2006 // A New York woman who was living in Brooklyn when Hurricane Katrina struck has been charged with grand larceny for allegedly claiming she lived in Mississippi and was a victim of the storm, prosecutors said...
Mar 23 2006 // An appeal for independent insurance agencies to assist South Carolina’s law enforcement agencies to document and report information on insurance fraud was voiced by Attorney General Henry McMaster during the March...
Mar 23 2006 // Ray Wersching, once the kicker with the San Francisco 49ers of the National Football League, and a former Farmers Insurance agent, has been charged with insurance fraud, tax evasion, and the hiring of a convicted felon to...
Mar 21 2006 // An insurance broker who took money from elderly investors to cover his gambling addiction was sentenced to nearly three years in prison, a federal prosecutor said.Majid Aziz, 41, pleaded guilty to mail fraud and was...
Mar 21 2006 // A federal appeals court in Jackson has tossed out one of the state of Mississippi’s theories that the Vatican was connected to the fraud scheme of financier Martin Frankel.State Insurance Commissioner George Dale...
Mar 21 2006 // A former Ohio funeral home director has been charged with 43 counts accusing him of stealing up to $200,000 from clients who paid ahead for their funerals, Logan County officials said.Mark Van Horn, 55, of Bellefontaine,...
Mar 20 2006 // Mainers who become victims of identity theft are getting some help from the Legislature, which enacted a bill that follows up on State House action taken last year.A bill signed by Gov. John Baldacci clarifies the process...
Mar 20 2006 // Coalition Against Insurance Fraud lists 2005’s worst insurance con artistsScalpel-wielding surgeons and klutzy grave robbers were among the eight worst insurance swindlers of 2005, according to the Coalition Against...