All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 17 2005 // California State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has launched a statewide campaign to warn consumers about scams involving fake insurance policies.The Department of Insurance has cracked several fraud cases in the...
Oct 17 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer has made a name for himself exposing fraudulent and anti-competitive business practices in the securities, mutual fund and insurance industries. Now he is running for governor in New...
Oct 17 2005 // S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme: A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits.Connie...
Oct 17 2005 // Former Agent Accused of Taking $92,000Joel Berg, the former owner of J.B. Williams & Co. in Weston, Fla., and Seacoast Marine Insurance Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, was arrested for allegedly misappropriating more than...
Oct 17 2005 // With motorcycle theft rates climbing more than 55 percent and bike sales soaring at unprecedented rates, a survey of motorcycle owners revealed that a full 49 percent are concerned about bike theft and 84 percent believe...
Oct 17 2005 // California State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has launched a statewide campaign to warn consumers about scams involving fake insurance policies.The Department of Insurance has cracked several fraud cases in the...
Oct 17 2005 // Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation...
Oct 17 2005 // The operations manager for a $56 million bank controlled the suspense accounts entirely on her own. She reviewed the unposted report on a daily basis, clearing out items in the bank’s accounts. She manipulated...
Oct 14 2005 // Utah Governor Jon Huntsman Jr. has signed the Insurance Fraud Awareness Declaration making October Insurance Fraud Awareness Month. Joe Christensen, director of the Fraud Division, wrote and promoted the signing of this...
Oct 13 2005 // New Jersey Gov. Richard Codey has signed into law a package of identity theft safeguards with some of the toughest protections in the nation against such fraud.Consumer advocates have hailed the new law as a model for...
Oct 13 2005 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has pleaded guilty in Kanawha County Circuit Court of two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud.According to Insurance Commissioner Janet L. Cline, Villers knowingly...
Oct 13 2005 // North Carolina’s first criminal case involving a professional employer organization that provides outsourced personnel services to other businesses has been resolved by the Department of Insurance.Insurance...
Oct 13 2005 // The Mississippi State Attorney General’s Office records show more than 14,000 complaints resulting after the recovery from Hurricane Katrina and about 1,300 active investigations.Grant Hedgepeth, Consumer Protection...
Oct 13 2005 // Nine individuals have been arraigned in Middlesex Superior Court in Cambridge, Mass. in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that included the staging of several motor vehicle collisions in Lowell, Tyngsborough, and...
Oct 12 2005 // Authorities are taking aim at ‘swoop and squat’ accident scams They call it the “swoop and squat’.’ A driver pulls in front of another vehicle and slams on the brakes, deliberately causing an...
Oct 12 2005 // A bulletin from the Insurance Bureau of Canada gives details of a new anti-crime initiative, designed to make it easier for Canadians to report auto theft, insurance fraud, staged auto collisions and other crimes related...
Oct 12 2005 // West Virginia Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline, announced one employer, Brett A. Starr was indicted last month by a Kanawha County Grand Jury on the felony offense of Workers’ Compensation Fraud. At the same...
Oct 11 2005 // South Carolina’s Attorney General’s Office is beefing up its Fraud Division staff to reduce a backlog of cases and answer critics who say the department isn’t tough enough on insurance scams.The office...
Oct 10 2005 // Health care fraud is of as much concern in Europe as in the U.S. That’s the message from the second annual European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Conference. The European Healthcare Fraud and Corruption Network...
Oct 7 2005 // Internationally recognized boxing manager Henry Foster was arrested for insurance fraud in Miami after accepting $93,000 for disability payments when he was not working. John Dygon, a spokesman for Florida’s...