All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 21 2004 // The Massachusetts Senate has passed a bill to criminalize the practices of runners in insurance fraud schemes. The measure passed 39-0 and was sent to the House.The measure makes it a crime to engage in the practice of...
May 18 2004 // As a result of an investigation conducted by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), former Aliso Viejo insurance broker James Michael Gordon, 33, of North Miami Beach, Florida, surrendered himself on May 4 to Orange...
May 17 2004 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor has obtained an indictment charging a Mercer County woman with...
May 17 2004 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of Denise Sharon Hargrove, 37, of Raleigh, on charges of insurance fraud. Hargrove allegedly stole nearly $170,000 in fraudulent disability claims from...
May 17 2004 // The owner of a towing company with local government contracts has been charged with failing to provide workers’ compensation for his employees, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom...
May 17 2004 // The California Department of Insurance, Fraud Division (CDI) was involved in the arrest or surrender of three individuals in three separate cases.On May 6, Gaetano Chirco, 55, of San Jose, self-surrendered in Santa Clara...
May 17 2004 // Commissioner Glenn Wilson is attempting to get legislators to establish an insurance fraud prevention unit within his department, according to the Minneapolis Star-Tribune. A bill doing just that passed the Senate Commerce...
May 17 2004 // A Toledo man has been sentenced to 30 days in jail for committing workers’ compensation fraud, according to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation. William Douglas was sentenced to 30 days jail time, two...
May 17 2004 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley said Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served New Orleans agent, Tanya Maria Price, with cease and desist orders and suspended her individual and agency...
May 17 2004 // Within minutes of recently posting a new poll question on our Web site (www.insurancejournal.com), we quickly learned what some in the insurance industry think of Near North National Group’s Michael Segal.As...
May 17 2004 // As an industry, insurance has been sold to protect people from all kinds of loss. Most of that coverage is around insuring property against loss due to a variety of risks including theft. But in today’s day and age,...
May 17 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher authorized a $15,000 reward to be paid to a Miami man who provided state insurance fraud investigators with information leading to the arrest and successful prosecution of a...
May 14 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that four officers of the former Miami-based Aries Insurance Company have been charged with diverting more than $60 million from the company. Aries was...
May 14 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect approximately $834,000 in restitution from the principals of an El Cajon-based (San Diego County) construction company. San Diego residents Milton Perry Smith and his wife,...
May 13 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of a Schenevus woman for defrauding the Workers’ Compensation system out of more than $23,000.It is alleged that Marie Banks, 41, wrongfully...
May 13 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Morris County chiropractor has pleaded guilty to theft for billing an insurance company for chiropractic treatments never performed.According to Vaughn McKoy,...
May 12 2004 // A Florida man has been charged with selling fraudulent motor vehicle insurance cards to nearly 200 South Florida drivers, at least a dozen of whom are now facing charges for using the fake cards, Florida’s Chief...
May 11 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Union County man who fraudulently obtained more than $42,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits by claiming he had been displaced from his Manhattan employment as a...
May 11 2004 // On May 7, a Sacramento County Superior Court Judge 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...
May 10 2004 // A Florida insurance agent is facing criminal charges and loss of his license over charges that he stole premiums from numerous customers, including the Brazilian Missionary Community Church, Corp.Jerrod Keith Zelanka, 27,...