All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2006 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced today that Paul V. Dixon was indicted this week on one felony count of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation benefits.Dixon was allegedly injured at...
Mar 7 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrests of three Riverside, Calif., residents on charges that they allegedly filed a fraudulent auto theft claim on a car that was later found in an orange...
Mar 6 2006 // A Chipley, Fla. woman has been arrested and charged with organized fraud for allegedly steering patients from a hospital physical therapy center and improperly billing insurance companies.Lorrie Ann Laurel, 40, turned...
Mar 6 2006 // Alabama HB627 defining insurance fraud and making it easier for the Insurance Commission to join with neighboring states to crack down on fraud has gained the support of the Alabama Independent Insurance Agents. During...
Mar 6 2006 // Scalpel-wielding surgeons and klutzy grave robbers were among the eight worst insurance swindlers of 2005, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud. Elected to the Insurance 2005 Fraud Hall of Shame, those scam...
Mar 6 2006 // The frequency of class action suits seems to be fairly manageable. However, that good news does not carry over to the severity side. Dramatic settlement increases have occurred during the past five years, panelists told...
Mar 6 2006 // Washington state officials have amended and approved legislation that would create an insurance anti-fraud unit in the insurance commissioner’s office, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association of...
Mar 6 2006 // As a federal probe into the insurance industry widens, four former top executives of giants General Re and American International Group are pleading not guilty to fraud and conspiracy charges.The Justice Department has...
Mar 6 2006 // Certified public accountants wading into tax season should be aware of heightened exposure to liability as clients make crucial year-end decisions about how to manage tax liabilities for 2005, according to a recent study...
Mar 3 2006 // Grange Insurance will offer its Identity Theft victim resolution and education program coverage to auto policyholders in Ohio.The program is being offered in partnership with Identity Theft 911, a national fraud solutions...
Mar 3 2006 // Pennsylvania Attorney General Tom Corbett reported that criminal charges were filed against two Solanco High School teachers accused of deceiving State Farm in a fraudulent insurance claim for less than $800 to repair a...
Mar 3 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi on Friday reported the sentencing of former San Diego insurance broker Roberto Molina Jr., 55, to 180 days in jail and three years of probation stemming from an...
Mar 2 2006 // Insurance fraud and “hot topics” facing the insurance industry will be discussed by South Carolina Attorney General Henry McMaster and Director of Insurance Elanor Kitzman during the March 22 and 23 annual...
Mar 2 2006 // Honolulu motorcycle riders are most likely to have their bikes stolen, although the city is the 53rd largest metropolitan area, according to a recent study by Progressive Group of Insurance Companies. A motorcyclist in...
Mar 1 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during January.The actions include three license revocations, two license denials and fines and...
Mar 1 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the convictions of two suspects, Wade Peebles, 55, and Gigi Peebles, 41, for workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud, payroll tax fraud and conspiracy,...
Feb 28 2006 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin reported the Department’s “Top 10” insurance fraud cases for 2005, which involved a total of more than $5.5 million.The Department reorganized its...
Feb 27 2006 // A Broward County, Fla. woman, who attempted to collect twice on her hurricane claim, has been arrested following an investigation by detectives with the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance...
Feb 24 2006 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., reported that Arthur Copes, 5710 North Shore Drive, Baton Rouge, La., surrendered to Attorney General Special Agents on 117 counts of insurance fraud for his alleged...
Feb 23 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced that on Feb. 9, 2006, attorney Marilyn P. McCumber, 68, self-surrendered to the Los Angeles County Superior Court. She pled guilty to felony grand theft for...