All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 24 2003 // A Slidell, La. insurance agent was charged on numerous counts of theft and misappropriation, the latest in a series of insurance fraud arrests around the state, according to acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert...
Jan 22 2003 // First Floridian Auto and Home Insurance Company of Tampa now offers Identity Fraud Expense Coverage in Florida. According to the company First Floridian homeowners and tenants policyholders can be covered for expenses...
Jan 22 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch announced these recent developments in insurance fraud cases:·Preliminary hearing decision of the San Diego Superior Court...
Jan 17 2003 // New York State Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio has submitted the NYSID’s Annual Report on the operations of the Insurance Frauds Prevention Act and the activities of the Insurance Frauds Bureau for...
Jan 14 2003 // Representatives of the Florida insurance industry, including the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), outlined to a Senate committee an all-inclusive package of reforms designed to address the state’s...
Jan 14 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York held its first legislative meeting of the year last Thursday, and addressed two major issues on which they want members of the Senate and Assembly to take action during the...
Jan 13 2003 // On Dec. 13, 2002, James Kovacs was arrested in Tucson, Ariz. on an outstanding warrant charging him with witness tampering. The Pima County Fugitive Task Force arrested Kovacs who is now awaiting trial in Santa Cruz County...
Jan 13 2003 // Two Stanislaus County men were arrested on felony insurance fraud charges following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance, Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Robert L. Pritchett,...
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently.According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Jan 13 2003 // Most people wake up on New Year’s Day and make a resolution: lose weight, exercise more, spend more time doing the things you enjoy.The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) woke up on New Year’s Day 2003 with...
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently.According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year, is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Jan 13 2003 // Most people wake up on New Year’s Day and make a resolution: lose weight, exercise more, spend more time doing the things you enjoy.The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) woke up on New Year’s Day 2003 with...
Jan 10 2003 // Federal Judge John Grady has delivered stiff sentences on the convicted perpetrators of a $12 million insurance fraud scheme in Cicero. Reputed local mob boss Michael Spano Sr., whom prosecutors charged with masterminding...
Jan 9 2003 // Ralph Taeger, 66, of Placerville, Calif. was arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud on Jan. 2, 2003. Taeger surrendered to California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators and was booked into the El...
Jan 7 2003 // Bonnie LaGiglio, who was found guilty of tax fraud after other charges were dismissed for lack of evidence, was ordered to serve a 3 ½ year term in federal prison for her part in the insurance fraud that bilked Cicero...
Jan 6 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of Mike I. Masarweh, 36, owner of All Pro Mechanicx, a San Francisco auto repair...
Dec 31 2002 // A Lodi, Calif. man was arrested on numerous felony charges as a result of a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the San Joaquin County...
Dec 26 2002 // Holly Saelens, the interim director of the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI), has notified Powell securities dealer Vernon W. Shiflett and associate Paul L. Edwards, an insurance agent from Marion, of the...