All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 2 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Larry Dornburgh of Roseboom, N.Y. had been arrested and charged with two counts of insurance fraud. Dornburgh allegedly attempted to defraud both Utica...
Oct 1 2002 // A Court in Butler County, Ohio sentenced Ajay Chawla to serve one year in jail and pay a $1,500 fine following his conviction last August on charges of filing an insurance claim with CNA, stating that his father was...
Sep 30 2002 // An Oakland woman was arraigned as the result of an investigation by the CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Jeanette Deran, 52, surrendered to a $70,000 arrest warrant charging her with...
Sep 30 2002 // Lakisha Nicole Langston, 22, of Modesto, Calif., surrendered to authorities in Stanislaus County on three counts of insurance fraud. Langston purchased an auto insurance policy from Infinity Insurance Company on Sept. 21,...
Sep 30 2002 // James Charles Isbell, 38, of Encinitas, Calif., was charged with seven counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. According to investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI)Criminal...
Sep 30 2002 // Ricardo Ramirez, 25, and his wife Nicole Barlow, 23, both of Alta Loma, Calif., were recently arrested by CDI Investigators. Ramirez was arrested at a business location in Orange, Calif. and Barlow was arrested at her...
Sep 27 2002 // Travis County District Attorney Ronald Earle announced that the Travis County Grand Jury returned indictments alleging that a Texas couple stole over $1 million from Colonial Casualty Insurance Company, a workers...
Sep 27 2002 // John Lee Sullivan, 50, of Applegate, Calif. and Debra Michell Sprigg, 42, of Sacramento were arrested and charged with two counts of felony insurance fraud.According to California Department of Insurance Criminal...
Sep 26 2002 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Gergory Serio announced charges have been filed against 25 people allegedly involved in two auto insurance fraud rings operating in New York City.Charges...
Sep 25 2002 // Caryn Siebert, Seattle-based SAFECO’s vice president of claims, has been elected to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) Board of Governors.“SAFECO has always been a major player in the fight...
Sep 25 2002 // In a follow-up to a report in Jan. of 2001, Marco Anthony Ambroselli of Sacramento was found not guilty of the crime of a violation of Section 500 (a) (1) of the Penal Code of the State of California, (presenting a false...
Sep 23 2002 // Dr. Krishnaswami Sriram, 44, a cardiologist from Lake Forest pleaded guilty on Thursday to what prosecutors called a massive fraud scheme, admitting he claimed to have provided care for patients after they had died. The...
Sep 23 2002 // The Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RATTF), together with the Organized Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force, conducted a six-month undercover sting operation, “The Fast and the Fraudulent” resulting in felony...
Sep 17 2002 // Juan Antonio Acuna, 41, of Santa Maria, Calif. surrendered to authorities on Sept. 12, 2002, and was charged with seven felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, three counts of perjury, and one count...
Sep 17 2002 // A federal judge has dismissed J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s fraud claim levied against 11 insurers, possibly derailing the company’s attempt to gather approximately $1 billion in losses resulting in trade...
Sep 16 2002 // Florida fraud investigators charged the owner of two Edgewood chiropractic clinics with organized fraud and grand theft, the result of an investigation into an alleged scheme to cheat insurance companies out of over $2...
Sep 16 2002 // Outrageous! A travesty of Justice! Should be reversed! Both sides have probably said that at one time or another as the case of Campbell vs. State Farm worked it’s way through Utah’s court system, culminating...
Sep 16 2002 // Benito Storniolo, 44, Laura Storniolo, 40, and Angelo Cardarelli, 37, all of San Francisco, were arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud and tax evasion as the result of an investigation by the California...
Sep 16 2002 // The CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch announced the arrest of Margaret Lawanda Cook, 51, of El Sobrante, Calif. on eight counts of insurance fraud stemming from false workers’ comp and automobile...
Sep 16 2002 // Hugo Tapia Lopez, 42, and his wife, Angelica Rivera, AKA Angelica Rivera Munoz, 45, of Arbuckle, Calif., were arrested and booked into the Colusa County Jail as the result of an investigation by the CDI’s Criminal...