All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 12 2004 // North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman announced that a new fraud unit and insurance fraud awareness media campaign are starting statewide. The new unit, which will serve to investigate and deter insurance fraud,...
Feb 12 2004 // A Florida dental assistant is facing charges of workers’ compensation fraud, grand theft and perjury after reportedly failing to tell her most recent employer that she had collected a $17,000 workers’ comp...
Feb 12 2004 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Camden County man has pleaded guilty to possessing a phony automobile insurance identification card in order to avoid obtaining legitimate...
Feb 12 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) recently. Flood discussed workers’ compensation fraud, one of...
Feb 11 2004 // The New York Senate’s Standing Committee on Insurance, heard from a number of interested parties, including various industry groups, regarding growing concerns about insurance fraud, particularly staged accidents,...
Feb 9 2004 // An Alexandria, La. man was served with a cease and desist order by Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators. The order prohibits him from conducting any kind of insurance business in Louisiana. It states...
Feb 9 2004 // Since 1986, Texas has recognized an innocent insured exception to otherwise non-covered claims. The innocent insured doctrine usually involves arson or other intentional destruction of property by one insured and a claim...
Feb 9 2004 // Within the insurance industry—and even outside it—workers’ compensation fraud is typically associated with malingering employees who fake an injury in order to collect compensation and some paid...
Feb 9 2004 // I recently had the opportunity to interview Colorado Commissioner Doug Dean to discuss the most prominent issues facing the Colorado insurance market. While Colorado may not be the hotbed of insurance maladies (like, say,...
Feb 9 2004 // Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that the Nevada Department of Justice, Insurance Fraud Unit, obtained more convictions per capita than any other state. The statistics for insurance crimes were compiled by the...
Feb 9 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Travelers Property Casualty Corp announced the availability of its new master policy to cover identity theft expenses. Financial institutions or other commercial businesses can purchase this policy on...
Feb 9 2004 // Nev. Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that District Judge Donald M. Mosley sentenced Purificacion Lobitos, age 56, to a maximum term of 32 months with a minimum term of 12 months in the Nevada Department of...
Feb 9 2004 // Two Southland men were sentenced to federal prison for their convictions on charges related to a scheme in which one embezzled money from his employer and funneled it to members of his softball team.Angel Uribe, 33, of...
Feb 9 2004 // The auto insurance market has come a long way since Travelers wrote the first third-party policy for Gilbert J. Loomis’s one-cylinder car in 1897.“I’ll never insure a gasoline can on wheels,”...
Feb 6 2004 // An Orlando, Florida insurance agent has pleaded no contest to organized fraud and unlawful sale of insurance for soliciting doctors to buy bogus medical malpractice coverage.Michael Rock, 34, was arrested on the charges in...
Feb 5 2004 // A Pompano Beach, Fla. man reportedly posing as a psychotherapist is facing numerous felony charges for filing insurance claims for counseling sessions.Lubomir Lacho, 52, reportedly collected more than $11,000 after billing...
Feb 3 2004 // According to the Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Office of Insurance, two individuals have been convicted of committing fraudulent insurance acts.Mark A. Calitri, 34, of Richmond was found guilty of two counts...
Jan 29 2004 // On Jan. 30, the National Equipment Register (NER) will release its first annual report studying the problem of heavy equipment theft in the U.S.Based on NER’s database of more than 30,000 theft reports and statistics...
Jan 29 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served Dereius Djuan Davis of Alexandria with a cease and desist order, prohibiting him from conducting any kind of insurance business in Louisiana, according...
Jan 29 2004 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced that “Anthony Snow, age 43, of 1810 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to an Information...