All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 12 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund’s anti-fraud program has enabled statewide district attorneys to win more than $5 million in restitution orders. The restitution judgments are a direct result of 155 premium fraud...
Jul 12 2004 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist announced that White Construction Company, a major road builder headquartered in Chiefland, Fla., has pled guilty to six counts of Grand Theft.As a result of the plea agreement, White...
Jul 9 2004 // The Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County grand jury recently indicted Sergio Garcia on charges related to workers’ compensation fraud. If convicted, Garcia could face fines, restitution and...
Jul 9 2004 // The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the Austin, Texas-based provider of anti-fraud training and education worldwide, announced the release of the 2004 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse,...
Jul 9 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance shut the doors of Banner Insurance Agency Inc. at two Baton Rouge locations, according to Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley.The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit...
Jul 7 2004 // Jesse L. Jackson, 34, of Sacramento, was arrested at his residence June 28 and booked into the county jail on two felony counts of insurance fraud and one count of attempted grand theft. His arrest is the result of an...
Jul 7 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that a veteran law enforcement officer with more than 22 years of municipal and state experience has been tapped to take over as director of Florida’s...
Jul 7 2004 // New York Gov. George Pataki announced a two percent decrease in auto insurance premiums for drivers receiving coverage under the New York Assigned Risk Plan, which will reportedly result in lower insurance payments for...
Jul 7 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County insurance agent has pleaded guilty to stealing more than $429,000 as part of a complex insurance fraud and investment scheme in which he convinced...
Jul 5 2004 // A Sacramento County Superior Court Judge recently sentenced Benjamin L. Barnes, 37, to 300 days in jail, five years of probation and ordered him to pay State Compensation Insurance Fund $60,000 in restitution following his...
Jun 30 2004 // New Jersey Director of Division of Criminal Justice Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging four individuals with...
Jun 30 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $135,000 in restitution from a San Diego County- based construction firm as part of the sentence in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud case. Ray Charles Gauthier...
Jun 28 2004 // The owner of an Indian Harbor, Florida construction company has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud after jeopardizing the coverage of at least one employee, according to investigators with the Department...
Jun 24 2004 // The jury that convicted Chicago insurance broker Michael Segal of racketeering and fraud has recommended that he be ordered to forfeit $30 million and 60 percent of his interest in Near North Insurance Brokerage Inc.Segal,...
Jun 24 2004 // Two Orlando agents are facing numerous felony charges for allegedly issuing fraudulent workers’ compensation certificates to employers who needed them to apply for business licenses.Marcia V. Richardson, 40, and...
Jun 23 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced a Summit County woman has pled guilty to workers’ compensation fraud. Tammy Bird is scheduled for sentencing on July 6, 2004, in the Summit County Court...
Jun 23 2004 // West Virginia Attorney General Darrell McGraw is warning residents to beware of callers and door-to-door solicitors fraudulently claiming to be representatives of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) or groups...
Jun 21 2004 // The 2004 Minnesota legislative session adjourned on May 16, with several insurance-related bills signed into law, and a fraud bill now on the governor’s desk, according to the Property Casualty Insurers Association...
Jun 21 2004 // Stressing that auto theft worries increase during summer, the Texas Department of Public Safety released its annual list of the most stolen vehicles. General Motors pickups top the list. Auto thieves don’t take a...
Jun 21 2004 // The California Department of Insurance announced it has received $110 million on behalf of California policyholders of insurance sold by Executive Life Insurance Company (ELIC) and its 330,000 former policyholders. The...