All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 10 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc.’s inaugural Hudson Valley Regional Awareness Program, gave industry experts a chance to take part in the eighth annual CEO/Agency conference, sponsored by the...
Oct 9 2003 // In a comment issued to The New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance, the Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. said it wholeheartedly supports the DOBI’s endeavor to reduce insurance identification...
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
Oct 7 2003 // A Grass Valley, Calif. couple faces up to five years in prison and/or a fine of up to $50,000 after an investigation by CDI Fraud Investigators resulted in multiple felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance...
Oct 6 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers submitted comments to New Jersey’s Department of Banking and Insurance expressing support for the Department’s efforts to move quickly in implementing the auto insurance reform...
Oct 6 2003 // Continuing efforts to put an end to reported spiraling auto insurance premiums by combating fraud, Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher recently joined Miami-Dade State Attorney Katherine Fernandez-Rundle...
Oct 2 2003 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin announced that two Department initiatives designed to protect residents from fraudulent health insurance policies and to simplify liquidation proceedings involving...
Oct 2 2003 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada issued a statement commending Federated Insurance Company of Canada for its help in fighting organized insurance fraud. The company is transmitting weekly claims data to by means of ACE batch...
Oct 2 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Robert Burney Jr., 54, a Deputy Sheriff Jailer for the Monroe County Sheriff’s office for defrauding his own uncle.He’s charged...
Oct 1 2003 // The Alliance of American Insurers has issued an announcement noting that the State of New Jersey has assumed a leadership role in efforts to fight insurance fraud, following a “change in attitude and increased...
Oct 1 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Lon T. Horton, 54, a licensed insurance agent and broker, and owner of Horton Insurance Services, located in Brockport, N.Y. on charges...
Sep 30 2003 // Authorities announced the arrest of 51 individuals as part of the takedown of a no-fault insurance fraud ring in New York City last weekend. All are accused of taking part in a scheme that netted millions of dollars.The...
Sep 30 2003 // In a move that will reportedly help insurers fight auto fraud in the state, the Florida Joint Underwriting Association (JUA) board recently agreed to finance a prosecutor in the Dade County State’s Attorney’s...
Sep 30 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc., has issued a bulletin congratulating the New York State Insurance Department and the Department of Motor Vehicles on the recent success of the Insurance Information...
Sep 25 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that a former owner and director of Mobile Home Division of America Inc. was charged with felony grand theft in relation to allegations that he...
Sep 24 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that Vincent Morciglio, 49, of Jamaica was arrested on Friday and charged with two counts of forgery and two counts of criminal possession of a forged...
Sep 22 2003 // John Vernon Liller, 53, of Carson City, Nev., was sentenced after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges. Liller was the owner and agent at a Farmers Insurance office for over 22 years. Between March 2000 and March 2001,...
Sep 22 2003 // Two former insurance agents have been sentenced to imprisonment and ordered to pay $322,000 in restitution after an investigation by the California Department of Insurance revealed the two had allegedly stolen insurance...
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...