All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 1 2003 // Brian Wynn Stevens, 34, of Helendale, pled guilty to one count of insurance fraud stemming from an auto accident that occurred while he was uninsured, according to an investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
Jul 1 2003 // Suffolk County District Attorney Thomas Spota announced the arrest of 18 people on charges of grand larceny, insurance fraud and other crimes related to defrauding New York’s State Workers’ Compensation...
Jun 30 2003 // Eduardo Rodriguez, 61, a former governor of Quezon Province in the Philippines, was held to answer on multiple charges, including reportedly faking the deaths of his mother-in-law and wife to illegally collect more than...
Jun 27 2003 // The American Insurance Association announced that it has joined with other trade associations to file an amicus brief with the New York Court of Appeals in support of the changes in the no-fault auto insurance Regulation...
Jun 26 2003 // Gwendolyn Henson, 40, of Montclair, Calif. pled guilty last week to insurance fraud charges and was sentenced to 180 days in jail and three years of formal probation. California Department of Insurance (CDI) fraud...
Jun 26 2003 // Allstate Insurance Company and Liberty Mutual Group announced they jointly filed a federal RICO lawsuit against a Kentucky doctor and owners of several medical clinics and billing companies in that state.The defendants in...
Jun 26 2003 // Louisiana Commissioner of Insurance Robert Wooley announced that a Lafayette insurance agent was served a cease and desist order and his insurance license was suspended for allegedly misappropriating insurance premiums...
Jun 25 2003 // California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division investigators, with the assistance of the Glendale Police Department, arrested Robert Galante, 45, of Simi Valley, on a felony warrant charging him with two counts of...
Jun 23 2003 // Basheba and Cedric Peoples, both 35, of Las Vegas were sentenced for their alleged involvement in an internal insurance fraud scheme victimizing California State Automobile Association (CSAA). The suspects were sentenced...
Jun 23 2003 // An undercover operation bust led to five arrests in San Bernardino County, Calif. The California Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Urban Auto Task Force arrested Dr. Michael Loader, 49, a chiropractor, of Claremont;...
Jun 23 2003 // Zenaida Buenaflor, 49, and Phillip White, 49, both of Stockton, Calif., pled guilty to insurance fraud. The couple surrendered to authorities on two felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and perjury. Buenaflor paid...
Jun 23 2003 // Brian Pelech, 33, of Ontario, Calif., was arrested and charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud. In Aug. 1999, Pelech allegedly slipped between scaffolds resulting in injury to his right knee requiring surgery,...
Jun 23 2003 // Gyan Singh, 55, of Sacramento, Calif., was arrested on one count of insurance fraud. Singh was allegedly involved in an auto accident with his 1997 Ford truck on Dec. 7, 2001. Investigators claimed that Singh reported to...
Jun 23 2003 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that nine of the top 10 metropolitan areas for vehicle theft are in or near ports and Canadian and Mexican borders or within easy reach of them.The 10 metropolitan areas...
Jun 23 2003 // Having served six years in his present office, Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens has had an opportunity to see a number of changes in his state over the years. Pickens recently sat down with Insurance Journal to...
Jun 19 2003 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and its subsidiary, Encompass Insurance, announced the filing of civil actions under the New Jersey Insurance Fraud Prevention Act, in the Superior Court of New Jersey (Morris County),...
Jun 18 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher said the Pete Orr Insurance Anti-Fraud Act, which the governor recently signed into law, is expected to significantly boost efforts to prosecute operators of unlicensed...
Jun 17 2003 // The Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance announced a former Lexington insurance agent has been sentenced in Fayette Circuit Court on one felony count of fraudulent insurance acts. According...
Jun 13 2003 // After charging Near North Insurance Brokerage Inc. owner Michael Segal for insurance and mail fraud in a scheme to allegedly embezzle $24 million from the company’s reserve fund, federal prosecutors are now charging...
Jun 11 2003 // Texas Judge Bill Bender in the 403rd Judicial District Court found Thomas O’Laughlin guilty of workers’ compensation fraud after O’Laughlin pleaded no contest. According to Texas Mutual Insurance Company,...