All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 19 2004 // Attorneys for Chicago-based insurance broker Michael “Mickey” Segal have asked a federal judge to bar testimony in his upcoming trial that accuses him of spending hundreds of thousands of dollars in ill-gotten...
Apr 19 2004 // Having put pen to paper, West Virginia Governor Bob Wise recently signed the state’s first insurance fraud bureau into law, ushering in a new era of stepped-up crackdowns on industry fraud.State Insurance...
Apr 19 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...
Apr 19 2004 // Two Florida men are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges after insurance fraud investigators with the Department of Financial Services conducted investigations of numerous construction sites in and around...
Apr 19 2004 // With continued service to the state of Mississippi since the mid-70’s, Insurance Commissioner George Dale has been a steadying influence for the industry in the Magnolia State.When Dale was elected commissioner in...
Apr 19 2004 // The legal profession has films like “12 Angry Men” and “The Firm,” and television shows like “The Practice,” and “Law and Order.” The medical profession has “ER,”...
Apr 19 2004 // A 37-year-old former resident of Snohomish County, Timothy Smith, has pleaded guilty in Snohomish County Superior Court to first-degree theft after he was reportedly caught working for various employers while collecting...
Apr 19 2004 // Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of nine suspects by the California Urban Auto Fraud Task Force for embezzlement, conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with an “insider” insurance...
Apr 16 2004 // While violent crimes showed a decrease, California Attorney General Bill Lockyer announced that preliminary statistics show property crimes rose 2.8 percent in the state’s most populous cities and counties in...
Apr 15 2004 // Thomas DiBiagio, United States Attorney for the District of Maryland, announced that a federal grand jury has returned an indictment charging Ozzie Clay, 61, of Silver Spring, Md., with mail fraud, wire fraud, bankruptcy...
Apr 15 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer and Miami-Dade’s top prosecutor are teaming up to combat auto insurance fraud, which reportedly costs Florida families as much as $250 annually.CFO Tom Gallagher, who oversees...
Apr 14 2004 // Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson said charges his office filed against a home repairman should serve as a warning to consumers to be on the lookout for home repair scams that often go along with Oklahoma’s...
Apr 13 2004 // In a targeted effort to reduce the number of fraudulent auto insurance claims that drive up premium costs for residents of Springfield and Holyoke, Mass., a task force has been formed that combines the resources of the...
Apr 12 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that Terre Tomblin has joined the company as its new supervisor for the Organized Fraud Unit. Tomblin brings over 20 years experience in fraud investigation supervision for the...
Apr 7 2004 // NAIW Dallas Inc. announced they are sponsoring NAIW’s newest education program—Cyber Crime: The Hidden Exclusions.The program was developed exclusively for NAIW, will take place May 28 in Dallas at the Wyndam...
Apr 7 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former Middlesex County-based insurance company employee and her boyfriend have been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice -Office of Insurance Fraud...
Apr 7 2004 // A father and son have pleaded guilty to diverting thousands of dollars in premiums from a South Florida insurance agency.John Pascale, former owner of AAA Turnpike Insurance Agency, pleaded guilty to one count each of...
Apr 5 2004 // A Rhode Island man has been indicted on charges he allegedly worked as a used car broker while claiming to be injured and collecting $160,000 in total disability benefits, according to Mass. Attorney General Tom Reilly....
Apr 5 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies has updated its Customarq Classic property policy. Chubb’s Customarq Classic offers U.S. and Canadian commercial customers a choice of monoline property...
Apr 5 2004 // Starting from an early age, I was always interested in the subject of magic. I would watch the great magicians of the day, read books about Houdini and others, and haunt my local magic shop on Saturday afternoons. It...