All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 6 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Eric Scheffey’s Harris County Bone and Joint Clinic Association pleaded guilty recently to fraud-related charges.The insurer said the guilty plea marks the end of a...
Apr 5 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced that Leo Vincent Jacob of Covington, La., has pled guilty to six counts of filing false public records in a criminal scheme that involved hundreds of insurance...
Apr 4 2005 // The assistant chief sheriff’s deputy in Avoyelles Parish, La., and two other men are accused of defrauding an insurance company of $18,000, according to the Associated Press and the Alexandria Daily Town Talk.FBI...
Apr 4 2005 // An Ormond Beach, Fla. man has been accused of not forwarding insurance premiums to his underwriter and charged with grand theft after a New York insurance agent reported the incident to the Flagler Beach Police...
Apr 4 2005 // Tough legislation to increase fraud penalties in Florida for filing fraudulent auto crash reports that can be used to bilk insurance companies, to strengthen consumers’ rights to sue operators of unauthorized...
Apr 4 2005 // Interviewed by Kevin B. O’ReillyWhen Insurance Journal last spoke with Sandy Praeger, she was only months into the job. Kansans elected the Republican as insurance commissioner in November 2002. Back then she was...
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Apr 4 2005 // An Indian River County. Fla., jury found a former county employee not guilty on charges of workers’ compensation fraud, perjury in an official proceeding and third-degree grand theft.Ernest Rider of Falls Creek, Pa.,...
Apr 4 2005 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced the arrests of 14 individuals in Tampa–including a former sheriff’s deputy–for patient brokering. The patients were “sold” to at...
Apr 4 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Apr 4 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance recently announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner José Montemayor that became final during February. The actions include four license revocations, one license denial, and fines...
Apr 4 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that RBH Enterprises Inc. of Keller, Texas, recently pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony offense for workers’ compensation insurance fraud-related charges. Judge Julie...
Apr 4 2005 // Starting Feb. 24, investigators from the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division conducted joint operations in the Central Valley to execute outstanding arrest warrants.CDI partnered with the Fresno...
Apr 1 2005 // A Lake Charles, La., insurance agent (producer) was arrested and issued a cease and desist order, along with a summary suspension of his license, on charges of submitting fraudulent damage repair claims and pocketing the...
Apr 1 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has initiated a crackdown by his department on auto insurance fraud.Denn announced several policy changes in the way auto insurance fraud cases are handled, including makeing them...
Apr 1 2005 // California-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, the principal U.S. operating unit of Germany’s Allianz, announced that it now provides Identity Theft Restoration Services throughout the United...
Apr 1 2005 // The New York Court of Appeals has upheld the right of an insurance company to refuse to reimburse fraudulently incorporated medical providers for no-fault auto insurance claims even when the medical care provided is...
Mar 29 2005 // Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced the appointment of Sharon Buchanan Robinson as the new State Inspector General to lead the office in the prevention of waste, mismanagement, abuse, fraud and...
Mar 28 2005 // An insurance fraud scheme that continued for 10 years and left a trail 60 arsons across southern West Virginia, including burned mobile homes, buildings and automobiles, has netted a Logan County, W.Va. woman 15 years in...
Mar 28 2005 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced that it will provide Identity Theft Restoration Services nationally, offering customers access to a personal counselor who can help identity theft victims with the legal and...