All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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 // Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that Tye Fortuna, 31, of Big Fork, Mont., was sentenced recently by Judge Michael R. Griffin in the Carson City District Courthouse after pleading guilty to felony insurance...
Apr 5 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $800,000 in restitution from two former owners of a San Diego County-based construction company. The award followed their guilty plea on felony workers’ compensation...
Apr 5 2004 // A five-year undercover investigation into a staged auto collision ring came to a conclusion recently with the sentencing of the final attorney implicated by the joint efforts of the California Department of Insurance (CDI)...
Apr 5 2004 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Kissimmee Police Chief Mark Weimer announced the arrests of four individuals following an investigation into an identity theft ring.Michael Townsend and Gregory Gaffney, both of...
Apr 2 2004 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada has announced plans to concentrate its investigative efforts exclusively on auto theft and organized crime, and has therefore discontinued investigations of individual claims as of April...
Apr 1 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Apr 1 2004 // A multi-agency enforcement unit conducted a sweep April 1 that has to date resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects following a year-long undercover investigation into auto body insurance fraud.Warrants were issued by the...
Mar 31 2004 // Editor’s note: Proceedings against Dr. Deidre Callanan of Holyoke have been dropped since this story first ran. The Massachusetts Board of Chiropractors has initiated separate disciplinary proceedings against five...
Mar 30 2004 // State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of nine suspects today by the California Urban Auto Fraud Task Force for embezzlement, conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with an...
Mar 30 2004 // Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that Chris Perry, a former star on the Buffalo Destroyers arena football team, has been arrested in California on grand theft charges.Perry, who began collecting New...
Mar 26 2004 // Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Attorney General Charlie Crist announced the arrests of three South Florida residents on charges that they defrauded Chubb Insurance Company with false claims netting more than...
Mar 26 2004 // Minnesota Commerce 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...
Mar 26 2004 // A Hyannis, Massachusetts man has been found guilty and sentenced to jail for working as a laborer while collecting $7,000 in workers’ compensation benefits, Attorney General Tom Reilly announced.Mark Gomes, 39, of...
Mar 26 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a Mandeville, La., insurance producer (agent) was shut down and booked on charges of felony theft and insurance fraud involving misappropriation of premiums.Allen James...
Mar 22 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Attorney General Charlie Crist announced the arrests of five south Florida residents on charges that they systematically defrauded hundreds of senior citizens in an...
Mar 22 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...
Mar 22 2004 // Michael Segal, the president and CEO of Chicago-based Near North National Group, was already under federal indictment for 17 counts of fraud and racketeering. Now federal prosecutors in the U.S. District Court of Northern...
Mar 22 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher on Monday unveiled a proposal to require financial institutions, brokerages, insurance companies and agencies to use greater care when they dispose of consumer records...
Mar 22 2004 // No surprise, but with the first quarter of 2004 drawing to a close, workers’ compensation remains, as it has been for many years, one of the most troubled lines of insurance in the United States.On a calendar year...