All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 22 2003 // The California Department of Insurance’s proposal to further regulate the special investigations units of insurance companies is excessive and unnecessary according to the Alliance of American Insurers. In written...
Sep 22 2003 // Nothing apparently concentrates the corporate mind so effectively as being named in a criminal complaint. A week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued a sealed indictment which reportedly accused it, and...
Sep 22 2003 // A Williston, N.D., man has become the first employer ever sentenced to serve jail time for committing workers’ compensation fraud in state history, according to a statement from the Insurance Department.Robert...
Sep 22 2003 // Nothing apparently concentrates the corporate mind so effectively as being named in a criminal complaint. A week after a federal grand jury in Los Angeles issued a sealed indictment which reportedly accused it, and...
Sep 17 2003 // The recovery of 12 vehicles to Baltimore from Antwerp, Belgium announced this week reportedly illustrates a troubling trend in vehicle theft, the targeting of luxury vehicles in the United States for theft and export to...
Sep 12 2003 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley announced that a former insurance agent (producer) in Haynesville, La., was ordered to cease and desist from all activity in the business of insurance in the latest...
Sep 10 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County man has been sentenced in Superior Court for his reported role in an organized scheme to illegally obtain official police accident reports in order to...
Sep 9 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio, Genesee County District Attorney Lawrence Friedman and Genesee County Sheriff Gary Maha, issued a joint bulletin stating that Michael Puzan, of Warsaw, New...
Sep 9 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of Connecticut Inc. will host its annual Education Expo on Tuesday, Sept. 23, 2003, starting at 9 a.m. at the Ramada Inn in Plainville, Conn.The Expo serves “as a meeting place for...
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush {R} has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
Sep 8 2003 // Insurance Journal staff writer Cynthia Beisiegel recently met up with Michael Nolan, president of the California Workers’ Compensation Institute (CWCI) at the ACIC XIV Annual General Counsel Seminar in Las Vegas....
Sep 8 2003 // According to the latest report from the Highway Loss Data Institute (HLDI), an affiliate of the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety, the Cadillac Escalade SUV has the most frequent theft claims among 2000-02 model...
Sep 8 2003 // From medical malpractice to workers’ compensation, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush (R) has been working with insurance industry leaders to solve problems in the Sunshine State during his two terms in office. The issues in...
Sep 4 2003 // The California Department of Insurance’s proposal to further regulate the special investigations units of insurance companies is excessive and unnecessary according to the Alliance of American Insurers. In written...
Sep 3 2003 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of Jim Goodman, manager, foreman and estimator for USA Custom Paint and Body Shop of Raleigh, N.C., on six counts of making a false statement to procure...
Sep 2 2003 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada lauded the Ontario government’s enactment of the latest package of automobile insurance reforms, indicating that they will help to cut costs and reduce fraudulent claims.The reforms...
Sep 2 2003 // Pennsylvania’s Insurance Commissioner, Diane Koken received praise from Patrick Meehan, United States Attorney for the Eastern District, for the help her Department gave federal prosecutors investigating Allen W....
Aug 29 2003 // LexisNexis RiskWise has developed a new service to more effectively fight the growing problem of insurance fraud.Using the LexisNexis(TM) Rate Evasion Evaluation service, insurance companies can now reportedly detect...
Aug 28 2003 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced the arrest of five suspects believed to be part of an extensive auto insurance fraud ring operating in Forsyth and Guilford Counties. Criminal investigators from the...
Aug 28 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance, Gregory V. Serio, announced the arrests of Dorothy Johnson and Twila McKee, both of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on charges of insurance fraud and attempted theft by fraud for...