All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 28 2003 // An 11-year veteran with the Sebastian, Fla., Police Department was arrested for allegedly lying about accepting additional employment while collecting workers’ compensation benefits due to on-the-job...
Aug 26 2003 // A Hialeah, Fla. clinic owner and another individual were arrested and charged with one count each of racketeering, organized scheme to defraud, insurance fraud and grand theft following a joint investigation conducted by...
Aug 25 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a former Hammond insurance agent was arrested and issued a Cease and Desist Order for allegedly misappropriating insurance funds.DOI Fraud Unit investigators served Lee...
Aug 25 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a former Motor Vehicle Commission (MVC) supervisor has pled guilty to a charge of official misconduct for reportedly selling a fictitious duplicate motor vehicle...
Aug 22 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...
Aug 18 2003 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Texas State Bar has permanently disbarred Bernardo Eureste, a Houston attorney and former San Antonio city councilman. Eureste has not practiced law since June 2002, when he...
Aug 14 2003 // Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, joined by Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio, announced that the owner, manager and employees of a Far...
Aug 13 2003 // Insurance fraud rings long-established in New York City are now reportedly targeting the suburbs for their scams as the fraud indictments announced this week by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office vividly...
Aug 13 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...
Aug 13 2003 // Insurance fraud rings long-established in New York City are now reportedly targeting the suburbs for their scams as the fraud indictments announced this week by the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office vividly...
Aug 11 2003 // The Travis County (Texas) Grand Jury recently indicted Jimmy L. Jones on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. According to the Texas Mutual Insurance Company, Jones was an employee of Jen’s Oilfield...
Aug 11 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers has issued a statement commending the New York State Insurance Department’s action in approving a statewide average rate increase of 19.7 percent for high-risk drivers...
Aug 11 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance, Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of three western New Yorkers during National Fraud Awareness Week, August 3-9, stating that they had “come at an important time of...
Aug 8 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County man has pled guilty to theft by deception for conspiring to use false identities to fraudulently obtain more than $2,000 in health insurance...
Aug 7 2003 // Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Unit (IFU) ended a record year for referrals of suspected insurance fraud as well as convictions for proven cases of...
Aug 4 2003 // Attorney General Peter C. Harvey announced that a former Burlington County, N.J. man has been sentenced for falsely reporting that his automobile had been stolen in order to collect more than $12,000 from an insurance...
Aug 1 2003 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that the Texas State Bar has permanently disbarred Bernardo Eureste, a Houston attorney and former San Antonio city councilman. Eureste has not practiced law since June 2002, when he...
Aug 1 2003 // A Florida man banned from the state’s insurance industry was charged with organized fraud and grand theft, according to investigators with Florida’s Division of Insurance Fraud. Anthony Michael Pascale, of...
Jul 31 2003 // The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that Michael Bander, of Pensacola, former owner of Everyone Rides Car, Truck and SUV Center, is facing charges of organized fraud, theft, retail installment sales...
Jul 31 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County doctor and his niece have been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with reportedly falsifying...