All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Jan 29 2004 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced that an Adel woman has been arrested and charged with filing a fraudulent insurance claim. Teresa Kay Griffin, 33, was arrested and booked into the Cook County Jail....
Jan 28 2004 // On Jan. 29 and 30, 2004, the Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) will host a statewide insurance fraud conference at its headquarters in Austin, highlighting anti-fraud efforts. The department said an estimated 150 local,...
Jan 28 2004 // A former workers’ compensation claims adjuster and all eight of her alleged accomplices must now face felony grand theft charges after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation...
Jan 28 2004 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Lon T. Horton, who has been charged with 43 counts of issuing fraudulent certificates of insurance, two counts of insurance fraud,...
Jan 28 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc.’s MetroRAP 2004 shattered attendance records for the fifth year in a row, with more than 500 industry representatives gathering in Brooklyn. (See IJ Website...
Jan 27 2004 // The New York State Insurance Department’s Frauds Bureau 2003 Annual Report details some significant achievements made over the past year to combat insurance fraud.The Bureau racked up a record number of fraud...
Jan 27 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. expressed the organization’s satisfaction at the fraud fighting efforts of both the NYSID (see previous article) and the Automobile Insurance Fraud Unit (AIFU)...
Jan 27 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man previously convicted and sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in 9/11 survivor benefits has admitted committing...
Jan 27 2004 // Insurance Journal has discovered that there is an ongoing investigation into Torrance, Calif.-based Manning Riddell Insurance Services Inc. (License #0827722) in connection with the issuance of more than 1,000 phony Errors...
Jan 27 2004 // An Orlando clinic owner, his wife and office manager were arrested last week in an ongoing investigation of a Miami-based “paper” auto accident ring that so far has resulted in 46 arrests. Investigators with...
Jan 27 2004 // The legal defense of Michael Segal, the former owner of Chicago-based Near North Insurance Brokerage Inc., was dealt a major blow by a federal judge presiding over Segal’s trial on charges of embezzling more than $20...
Jan 26 2004 // Insurance Journal has discovered that there is an ongoing investigation into Torrance, Calif.-based Manning Riddell Insurance Services Inc. (License #0827722) in connection with the issuance of more than 1,000 phony Errors...
Jan 26 2004 // Like many other parts of the country, West Virginia is looking to answers to improve tort reform in the state.Recently, Insurance Journal Southeast spoke with Randy Cox, American Insurance Association West Virginia...
Jan 26 2004 // Paula Flowers, the commissioner of Tennessee’s Department of Commerce and Insurance, recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast regarding some of the industry issues impacting the Volunteer...
Jan 26 2004 // A Mandan, N.D., man was ordered to pay $54,679 in restitution to Workforce Safety & Insurance after pleading guilty to fraud in South Central District Court Dec. 16, according to a statement released by the North...
Jan 26 2004 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID), in cooperation with Sheridan County Attorney Mike Haas and the Kansas Attorney General’s Office, has filed felony charges against a Selden, Kan., insurance agent. An...
Jan 26 2004 // A proposal to create and fund an insurance fraud investigation and prosecution framework in South Carolina reportedly has the support of the Alliance of American Insurers. The Omnibus Insurance Fraud and Reporting Immunity...
Jan 26 2004 // Nine owners or employees of California auto repair shops were arrested and charged recently with auto insurance fraud following a lengthy investigation by a multi-agency task force headed by the District Attorney’s...