All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 3 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation Division and the Fraud Division announced recent developments in these insurance fraud cases:·ANAHEIM – Gary Stromme, 47, originally pled...
Feb 28 2003 // Two Florida lawmakers, reportedly keenly aware of how insurance fraud is hurting consumers, have filed legislation designed to crack down on fraud perpetrators in the state.Sen. Bill Posey (R, Dist. 24) and chairman of the...
Feb 28 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio told a Capital District luncheon crowd on Tuesday that his Department has just learned that the New York Court of Appeals has granted leave for plaintiffs to...
Feb 26 2003 // Michael Allen Lessley, 35, pled guilty to felony insurance fraud before Nevada Judge Connie Steinheimer in the Washoe County Courthouse. Lessley reported his red 1995 Mustang stolen in order to allegedly receive money from...
Feb 26 2003 // NY authorities announced the arrest of Merle D. Hover of Glen Aubry, New York, on charges of insurance fraud and attempted grand larceny stemming from a fraudulent claim he submitted stating that his daughter was killed in...
Feb 24 2003 // A former resident of Jupiter, Fla. was sentenced in Martin County Circuit Court to 20 years in prison after pleading no contest to fraud and grand theft charges stemming from his use of aliases in a scheme to reportedly...
Feb 24 2003 // An Anaheim agent was arrested as the result of an investigation by California Department of Insurance’s (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch. Gary Stromme, 47, was arrested at his Anaheim business office on May 9,...
Feb 24 2003 // Fraud investigators of CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office arrested Thomas Turner, 57, of Fremont, Calif. The San Mateo County...
Feb 24 2003 // Kathryn Marie Corso, 53, was arrested at her residence and charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud, one count of grand theft and one count of perjury. Investigators reported that Corso filed a workers’...
Feb 24 2003 // Acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley confirmed that a Monroe, La. insurance agent was arrested as a part of an ongoing statewide crackdown on insurance fraud being conducted by the La. Department of...
Feb 21 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division announced recent developments in these insurance fraud cases:·Mauricio Acosta, 23, was arrested at his residence without incident and booked...
Feb 21 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that a guilty plea to a felony charge of violating the maintenance of home office records law has been entered for Gary Atnip, an alleged co-conspirator with Martin...
Feb 19 2003 // Unless a claim is filed, workers’ compensation insurers reportedly would not know if an employee’s name is included in the infamous Specialty Designated National (SDN) list of criminals and terrorists targeted...
Feb 18 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne announced the arrest of Leonard Krouner Esq., 55, of Loudonville, N.Y., for reportedly fraudulently obtaining disability...
Feb 18 2003 // District Court Judge John S. McGroarty accepted the guilty pleas of Warren Wright, 63, formerly of North Las Vegas, on two felony counts of insurance fraud. Wright agreed to pay $12,763.38 in restitution to the insurance...
Feb 14 2003 // An insurance adjustor who allegedly defrauded Allstate Insurance Company and several Allstate-insured homeowners who suffered damages during the 1994 Northridge earthquake was recently convicted of federal fraud...
Feb 14 2003 // A Brevard County, Fla., construction company owner has been charged with workers’ compensation insurance fraud after investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services made an unannounced visit to one of...
Feb 14 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Travis County District Court judge ordered Villesca to submit to three years of community...
Feb 11 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that the owners of an Orange County roofing company were arrested for workers’ compensation fraud and organized fraud.Investigators with the...
Feb 10 2003 // Emilia Sanchez, 37, was arraigned on workers’ compensation fraud charges in November, according to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. The...