All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 20 2004 // The Subaru Impreza WRX 4DR AWD holds two dubious distinctions this year: the top spot on Insurance Bureau of Canada’s (IBC) top 10 list of the country’s most frequently stolen vehicles, as well as topping the...
Oct 20 2004 // Editor’s note: This is a commentary piece submitted by David E. Wood of the law firm Wood & Bender.The recent suit by New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer alleging price-fixing and deceptive practices by...
Oct 20 2004 // Two former Pittsfield, Massachusetts residents who reportedly submitted false claims to an auto insurance company were found guilty of insurance fraud, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced.Myriam Mojica, 40, and Rafael...
Oct 19 2004 // New Jersey’s Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a former Middlesex County insurance carrier employee has been sentenced to prison for reportedly falsifying overtime records in order to...
Oct 19 2004 // New Jersey’s Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained a State Grand Jury indictment charging an...
Oct 18 2004 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer’s filing last Thursday of charges against giant insurance broker Marsh for alleged commercial account steering and bid rigging has already had significant impact on Marsh and...
Oct 16 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Union County man and a Middlesex County man were convicted this week of racketeering, conspiracy, Health Care Claims Fraud and theft for their roles in a...
Oct 15 2004 // A West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission fraud and abuse investigator was to be honored on Friday for her work by the U.S. Department of Justice.Lisa Prater, manager of the Fraud & Abuse Investigations...
Oct 14 2004 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and State Insurance Superintendent Gregory Serio announced guilty pleas to two separate indictments by owners of several ambulette companies for submitting fraudulent transportation...
Oct 14 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that An Essex County-based board-certified plastic surgeon has been indicted by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor for a...
Oct 13 2004 // Vaughn McKoy, director, Division of Criminal Justice, announced that New Jersey’s Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has charged a Philadelphia man with conspiracy and theft as part of a $23,000 automobile...
Oct 12 2004 // Two separate investigations have resulted in nine arrests on felony insurance fraud charges, including one suspect who was extradited from Arizona and a tenth suspect still at large outside the U.S., officials announced on...
Oct 11 2004 // Sixteen People, Including Three Lawyers, Four Chiropractors, And An Insurance Agent Have Been Indicted By A Special Grand Jury In Essex County For Their Alleged Involvement In Auto Insurance Fraud In Lawrence. The 16 Were...
Oct 11 2004 // The fight against insurance fraud in New York is producing encouraging results as the cost of the average auto injury claim under the state’s no-fault insurance system declined by 20 percent between 2002 and 2003,...
Oct 11 2004 // Lory Caballero, of Eagle Rock, Calif., a licensed insurance agent and owner of L.C. Insurance Agency, was convicted of one count of felony grand theft. She was sentenced to five years of formal probation, 20 days of...
Oct 11 2004 // Farmers Insurance Exchange has begun serving civil summons and complaints upon a Los Angeles body shop and its director, accusing them of taking part in a scheme designed to defraud Farmers and its policyholders. The civil...
Oct 11 2004 // Hawaii’s workers’ compensation system has been a hot topic in recent months – although the system has been on the industry’s radar for some time now. A recent study by the Oregon Department of...
Oct 10 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Monmouth County insurance agent has pleaded guilty to theft charges for stealing more than $43,000 in insurance sales commissions to which he was not...
Oct 10 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Springfield man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Jeff Hamm was sentenced to three months incarceration, a...
Oct 7 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Columbus man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Souhil Sabbagh was sentenced to one year probation and ordered...