All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Dec 24 2002 // The Clark County Grand Jury has indicted the nine remaining defendants in the Guy Mitchell Sheets fraud case (See IJ West Web News, Dec. 19): Terri Denise Bragg, Rodney Bernard Winters, Basheba Peoples, Cedric Peoples,...
Dec 23 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Michael McGuire, Mark Marrelli, and Glen Marelli of Erie, N.Y. have been charged with arson, insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny, and criminal...
Dec 23 2002 // An El Dorado Hills, Calif. resident was arrested as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Charles David Littlejohn, 46, AKA Charles...
Dec 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch arrested two local insurance agents for selling bogus insurance policies. Jouly R. Kassis, 20, and Mike George Denno, 24,...
Dec 20 2002 // Over $700,000 dollars were paid in claims for two traffic deaths that never occurred in a case that involved phony police reports created in order to process claims, according to the San Diego Union Tribune.An Allstate...
Dec 19 2002 // Nevada Attorney General Frankie Sue Del Papa announced that Guy Mitchell Sheets, 38, of Henderson, Nev., was sentenced to 12 to 36 months in prison, concurrent, for the two felony counts of insurance fraud he plead guilty...
Dec 19 2002 // The the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) has issued a statement urging the New York State Legislature and Gov. George Pataki to pass legislation to address auto insurance fraud.Both the Assembly...
Dec 19 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, in conjunction with Chief Tom McCarthy of the Fayetteville Police Department and Chief Tommy Hagens of the St. Pauls Police Department, announced the arrest of Eugenia Rose...
Dec 18 2002 // The nation’s top 13 insurance crooks, cons and knuckleheads of 2002 have been enshrined into the first annual Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud.The inaugural scheme team was...
Dec 18 2002 // A former insurance and bail bond agent was arrested by the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit and Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators issued her a cease and desist order in what the...
Dec 18 2002 // In response to a flood of insurance fraud relating to homeowners and earthquake insurance, 21st Century Insurance has filed a civil complaint against California-based Unlimited Adjusting Company and its principal Jung Ho...
Dec 17 2002 // A chiropractor in Port St. Lucie, Fla. was arrested on charges of insurance fraud and continuing his chiropractic practice after losing his license. According to the Fort Pierce Tribune, Gregory Dale Blackman had been...
Dec 16 2002 // Keith Aaron Hayes, 49, a resident of Hacienda Heights, Calif., pled no contest to one count of auto insurance fraud and one count of capping on Nov. 13, 2002. The Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office...
Dec 13 2002 // Gary Stromme, 47, plead guilty to two felony counts of grand theft in Orange County Superior Court yesterday, the result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations...
Dec 13 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance announced that department fraud investigators have arrested insurance agent Alton Michael Haynes III and charged him with six felony offenses. Haynes, 55, is charged with...
Dec 13 2002 // The Hartford filed suit against seven New York State residents and eleven New York businesses for their role in an alleged scheme to fraudulently purchase insurance coverage and avoid paying hundreds of thousands of...
Dec 12 2002 // New York area members of the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) recently convened to devise their focus for the 2003 legislative session.Major issues they planned to target include reducing no-fault...
Dec 12 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Linda Ellis of Elmira, N.Y. on a charges of violating the Workers’ Compensation Law, committing fraudulent practice, offering a false...
Dec 11 2002 // Farmers Insurance Exchange and Mid-Century Insurance Company have begun serving civil summons and complaints upon an Oakland, Calif. body shop and a Ventura County, Calif. body shop, their owners, former Farmers employees...
Dec 11 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that the owner of South Florida-based Cedar Shakes Supply Inc. and Regency Roofing has pleaded guilty to charges of organized fraud and workers’...