All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Garifalia Christea, 48, of Flushing, New York. She is charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud, falsifying business records and violation of the...
Nov 19 2002 // The Art Loss Register (ALR) and Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) announced an enhanced property-loss reporting system that will increase the efficiency of reporting the theft of high-value stolen property by...
Nov 18 2002 // On Nov. 13, 2002, as a result of a two-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Keith Aaron Hayes, 49, a resident of Hacienda Heights,...
Nov 12 2002 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served cease and desist and summary suspension orders to licensed insurance agent Tommy Ray Dean of Shreveport, the day after the department served a C&D...
Nov 12 2002 // Two Sacramento area women pled guilty to charges of insurance fraud as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Janet Mae Gudgel,...
Nov 11 2002 // Marcia Johnson, 42 , of Alpine, Calif., recently pleaded not guilty to charges of insurance fraud, burglary, grand theft, theft from an elder and arson, in the case of a 71-year-old missing man, according to the Inland...
Nov 11 2002 // Rafael Gonzalez, 30, of Antelope, was arrested by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division on two felony counts of insurance fraud. Gonzalez purportedly reported...
Nov 11 2002 // Mario Moreno, 45, was arrested in Mariposa, Calif. and booked into the Mariposa County Jail on a $250,000 bail felony warrant. The criminal investigation conducted by CDI’s Inland Empire Regional Office revealed that...
Nov 8 2002 // Ogden, Utah resident Robert Paul Martinez, 30, was recently sentenced to 180 days in jail for insurance fraud.Second District Court Judge Ernie W. Jones sentenced Martinez Oct. 16, 2002, on charges of workers’...
Nov 8 2002 // A Los Angeles resident was arrested in North Hollywood on Nov. 1, as the result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division.Nvart Rose Semizyan...
Nov 6 2002 // Austin, Texas-based homeowner advocate, Melinda Ballard, announced she filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against Farmers Insurance (Farmers) and its paid spokesman for falsely accusing her of committing...
Nov 5 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that a former City of Miami police officer is facing numerous felony charges after he allegedly bought more than 280 police accident reports for $25 each...
Nov 4 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance announced that the president of Megen Corporation is facing charges of insurance fraud, forgery, and uttering forged documents stemming from the underwriting of a construction surety...
Nov 4 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long and Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin announced that Darryl Edward Billings and Jennifer Lyn Billings of North Wilkesboro were arrested recently on charges of Obtaining...
Nov 4 2002 // Property/casualty professionals can learn about coverage for identity fraud expenses by accessing an online recording of a Web seminar on the topic, held recently by the American Association of Insurance Services...
Nov 4 2002 // In the evening of Oct. 30, 2002, California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division Investigators and Windsor Police Officers arrested Judith Lee Marciel (AKA Judith Lee Delgado, Judith Lee Douglas, Judith Lee Latch,...
Nov 1 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Organized Auto Fraud Interdiction Task Force arrested a Rio Linda woman, along with her former common-law husband and his brother-in-law on multiple charges...
Oct 30 2002 // Peggy Ann Cox of West Virginia has pled guilty in federal court on two counts of fraud. According to The Charleston Gazette, Cox made the plea to Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II, admitting that between December...
Oct 28 2002 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has introduced a new optional endorsement under its Homeowners 2000 program that insurers can offer homeowners and other consumers to protect themselves against the growing crime of...
Oct 28 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) praised the Appellate Division, First Department Court in Manhattan for its unanimous decision on Wednesday to uphold new rules by the New York State...