All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 22 2006 // The Insurance Council of Texas elected James Langford as chairman of its Board of Directors effective Jan. 1, 2006.Langford is the assistant vice president of compliance, regulatory and governmental affairs, and training...
Jan 22 2006 // Fraud RoundupVentura County, Calif., District Attorney Gregory Totten reported that the office’s Consumer and Environmental Protection Division recently obtained two convictions for violation of the California...
Jan 22 2006 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wants to create a new fraud unit to investigate staged traffic accidents. Those can involve a network of lawyers, doctors, chiropractors and physical...
Jan 19 2006 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit reported that an Orleans Parish man has been arrested on a felony insurance fraud warrant. The arrest evolved from a complaint by a private insurance company. The Louisiana...
Jan 19 2006 // The Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) testified in Olympia, Wash., in support of two bills that would create the Washington’s first insurance anti-fraud unit in the insurance...
Jan 19 2006 // A Bogalusa, La., insurance agent was arrested and issued a cease and desist order for alleged felony theft and withholding of insurance premiums, the Louisiana Department of Insurance said.The DOI ordered Patricia Morvant,...
Jan 18 2006 // Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler offered testimony this week on commissioner-request legislation that would establish an anti-fraud unit within the Office of the Insurance Commissioner.Washington is one of...
Jan 16 2006 // Seven suspects in California’s San Joaquin Valley region have been arrested for workers’ compensation fraud that cost insurers $900,000, and duped the state out of some $676,000 in payroll taxes, according to...
Jan 16 2006 // A key legislative committee this week amended and passed legislation in Washington that is designed to assist consumers injured in intentional “road rage” collisions – and protect insurers against auto...
Jan 15 2006 // Two brothers from Lawrence, Mass. who are both on the state’s most wanted fugitives list were captured lays Friday in the Dominican Republic, state police said.Andres Maldonado, 21, is the alleged trigger man in a...
Jan 15 2006 // The New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services has awarded more than $5 million to 29 law enforcement agencies in 16 counties throughout the state to support local programs to combat motor vehicle theft and...
Jan 13 2006 // Jay Unger, a self-employed lawyer in Boynton Beach, Fla. has been arrested for filing a fake auto-theft report in Melbourne for two motorcycles and a rental trailer. He was charged with grand theft, filing a false police...
Jan 13 2006 // Indiana Farm Bureau’s Chief Executive Officer, Jerry Canada, recently voiced the company’s steadfast commitment to continue to work with investigators as well as to support policyholders who were victims of...
Jan 12 2006 // Satellites have been connected with space explorations, monitoring crop conditions around the globe, helping commodities markets price the product and more.Few of us think of satellite images showing up in courtrooms to...
Jan 12 2006 // With almost 2,000 cases of identity theft in Oklahoma in 2004, State Rep. Steve Martin believes it’s time to increase deterrence by hiking the penalties upon conviction.Martin filed House Bill 2109, which would...
Jan 12 2006 // The Seattle-based Grange Insurance Group has partnered with Identity Theft 911 LLC to provide free identity theft resolution services to its homeowner and farmowner policyholders. Identity Theft 911 also will assist...
Jan 11 2006 // Earl Hyser and his co-workers figure out how to steal 30 to 60 cars every year. But they aren’t thieves.“We go back to the manufacturer and say, ‘Listen, I get a lot of phone calls on this. It’s...
Jan 11 2006 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, has announced that Jason C. Davenport pleaded guilty last month to one misdemeanor offense of wrongfully seeking workers’ compensation benefits, and has been...
Jan 11 2006 // St. Paul Travelers, a provider of property casualty insurance, and the Independent Community Bankers of America (ICBA) are now offering ICBA member banks access to coverage, where approved, to assist identity theft victims...
Jan 10 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance, working in conjunction with the Collin County District Attorney’s Office, recently secured a criminal conviction against Don A. Bauer of Plano for insurance fraud. TDI said Bauer...