All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 25 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud and Investigation Divisions announced recent developments in the following fraud cases:* OAKLAND, CA – As a result of an on-going investigation...
Apr 24 2003 // Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that District Court Judge John S. McGroarty sentenced Basheba and Cedric Peoples, both 35, of Las Vegas, for their reported involvement in an internal insurance fraud scheme...
Apr 22 2003 // An insurance broker, John Sik Lee, 32, of Cerritos, pled no-contest to two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of grand theft based on evidence gathered by California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators. The...
Apr 21 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced that a joint investigation with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has resulted in the arrest of Patrick Ferguson, 53, a former...
Apr 21 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division arrested Doyle E. Champlain, 45 of Orangevale, Calif., without incident on five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of attempted perjury. On...
Apr 21 2003 // Nevada’s Clark County Grand Jury indicted Pavel Daniel Oprea, 37, on nine felony counts of insurance fraud including three counts each of the following: false application to insurer, false claim for insurance...
Apr 21 2003 // Samuel Tufino Machado, 22, also known as Salvador Castaneda, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on two felony counts of insurance fraud with special allegations that the crimes were committed while he...
Apr 21 2003 // Ana Rosa Pena, 54, and Juan Pena, 65, were arrested in San Dimas, Calif. Rosa Pena was charged with one count of Preparing Fraudulent Documents, three counts of perjury, and one count of grand theft. Juan Pena was charged...
Apr 21 2003 // Jake V. Silva was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits by the 132nd District Court in Scurry County, Texas. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment (probated to five years on...
Apr 18 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Ricky DeSantis of Rochester, who was charged with insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny and falsifying business records.It is alleged that on...
Apr 17 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Raphael Benjamin of Brooklyn, New York, who was charged with insurance fraud, forgery, grand larceny and falsifying business records. It is alleged...
Apr 17 2003 // A Lehigh Acres, Fla. insurance agent can no longer legally transact insurance in Florida after pleading guilty to charges of misappropriating insurance premiums. The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that...
Apr 16 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County woman pled guilty to forging drug prescriptions as part of a reported scheme to obtain controlled drugs through the use of fraudulent...
Apr 14 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that three North Jersey men have been charged via separate Passaic County Grand Jury indictments with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and theft by...
Apr 14 2003 // Four Progressive Corp. subsidiaries have filed a civil suit against First Chiropractic Clinic of Orlando, First Chiropractic Clinic of Pine Hills and its principal, Mirlourdes Beliard-Hopkins, and chiropractors Jodie Ellis...
Apr 11 2003 // New York Superintendent Gregory Serio and Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne announced the arrest of Caroline Burr-McCann, 35, a former billing clerk for State Opticians who is charged with insurance fraud. An...
Apr 10 2003 // The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that a former Miami clinic owner and two of his medical staff were charged with fraudulently billing four insurance companies for treatments never...
Apr 9 2003 // Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Lt. Governor Toni Jennings announced comprehensive workers’ compensation reforms at a rally of Florida homebuilders at the state’s Capitol. At the rally, Bush commented that part...
Apr 8 2003 // The 132nd District Court in Scurry County, Texas, sentenced Jake V. Silva to two years imprisonment (probated to five years on probation) and 160 hours of community service after finding him guilty of fraudulently...
Apr 7 2003 // Nev. Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that Michael Vierra, 57, pleaded guilty before Judge Jerome Polaha in the Washoe County Courthouse to conspiracy to commit insurance fraud. The investigation and prosecution...