All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 27 2002 // Jeremy Christian Brickner, 25, of Sacramento, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on one count of insurance fraud.The arrest was the result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
Jun 25 2002 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine has revoked the licenses of two Savannah insurance agents convicted of fraud. William Knight III and Varnedoe Hancock were indicted on fraud charges after Hancock allegedly sold...
Jun 24 2002 // The CDI’s Fraud Division arrested Gary Stromme, 46, of Anaheim, at his business and charged him with 13 felony counts of grand theft.According to investigators, in 1999, Stromme, a Farmers Insurance Group agent,...
Jun 21 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department announced that 15 people have been arrested in a crackdown on a series of fraudulent claims relating to the attacks on the World Trade center. Those charged have received a total of...
Jun 21 2002 // A California lawyer accused of scheming to sink a yacht of the coast of Italy was sentenced to 7 and-a-half years in prison June 18 by U.S. District Judge Lourdes Baird, according to the Associated Press.Rex DeGeorge, of...
Jun 20 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department announced the arrest of an additional 21 persons (112 were indicted last December), charged with participating in an auto fraud insurance ring in Queens.The NYSID said that the...
Jun 19 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Camino man on one felony count of insurance fraud and one count of attempted perjury. John Eugene...
Jun 18 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of a Sacramento resident last week on charges of insurance fraud and attempted...
Jun 13 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance has released its 2001-2002 top 10 fraud list to kick off the Florida Insurance Fraud Prevention Week.Regulators and investigators spent much of the past year rooting out unauthorized...
Jun 13 2002 // A Yuba City, Calif., woman surrendered herself to authorities last week in Sacramento County as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance, Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud...
Jun 12 2002 // An investigation by the California Bureau of Automotive Repair (BAR), the Kings County District Attorney’s Insurance Fraud Unit, and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s...
Jun 11 2002 // Pittsburgh-based Highmark Inc., a part of the Blue Cross/Blue Shield organization has wrapped up an enviable record in combating health care fraud, with 33 convictions and 33 indictments in 2001 and first quarter 2002 as a...
Jun 11 2002 // Chandeep Singh Purewal surrendered in Fresno County (Calif.) Superior Court last week and was arraigned on two counts of auto insurance fraud. If convicted, Purewal could face up to five years in state prison and/or a...
Jun 10 2002 // Investigators with the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Modesto man on two counts of insurance fraud. If convicted, Jose Munoz could face up to five years in state prison and/or a...
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Jun 4 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced the sentencing of a Palm Springs man after pleading guilty to one count of insurance fraud.James Keith Simpson was sentenced to five years in state prison by the Indio...
May 31 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) arrested three northern California residents on multiple counts ranging from insurance fraud to embezzlement and grand theft.Patricia Anne Okuniewicz, 40, of San Jose...
May 30 2002 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Jim Bernstein announced that Hurley State Bank of Sioux Falls, South Dakota has paid a civil penalty and investigative costs totaling $300,000 as a result of the Department’s...
May 30 2002 // John Biagini, Sr., 50, of Utica NY was sentenced to serve 37 months in federal prison and to pay $80,900 in restitution to several insurance companies after pleading guilty to filing numerous fraudulent auto repair...
May 27 2002 // Steven W. Schermerhorn of Sandy, Utah, is spending 30 days in jail for insurance fraud.In October 1999, Schermerhorn suffered water damage in his basement as a result of a hose left running in a neighbor’s yard....