All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 6 2002 // Fresno, Calif., Sacramento, Calif., and Stockton, Calif. made a rather unwanted list—the top 10 in a study and list naming the metropolitan areas with the most auto thefts in the nation for 2001—according to the...
May 2 2002 // New York’s Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio lauded yesterday’s passage in the State Senate of S.123, a bill which would create new felony crimes for insurance fraud involving “runners”. The...
Apr 30 2002 // Royal & SunAlliance USA announced that it is investigating the unauthorized and apparent fraudulent use of its name to offer various insurance and financial products through print advertisements and the Internet.The...
Apr 29 2002 // You’re leaving money on the table, and there are savings to be added if you’re willing to spend some energy looking for it.”Those are the sentiments of Alex Ho, consumer brand director for Progressive...
Apr 29 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division arrested Antioch resident Rudolfo Villasenor, 28, for felony insurance fraud and possession of dangerous drugs/narcotics, along with Ruben Rodriguez, Jr., 25, of...
Apr 29 2002 // Stanislav Svinarenko was booked into the Sacramento County Jail with bail set at $5,000 after being arrested on one count of insurance fraud. The Fair Oaks resident faces up to five years in state prison, with a possible...
Apr 29 2002 // The CDI announced the arrest of John Martin by the Philadelphia Police Department Felony Warrant Detail. The arrest warrant was issued in Orange Superior County Superior Court in response to two felony charges filed by the...
Apr 23 2002 // The NYSID announced the arrest of Joseph Patelunas, 32, of Elmira, New York, on charges of insurance fraud. He is accused of collecting no-fault benefits for a disability when in fact he was not disabled, and of falsifying...
Apr 16 2002 // A Long Beach, Calif., woman surrendered on an outstanding warrant related to felony insurance fraud charges. Yvonne Boyce allegedly slipped and fell while on the job in 1998 injuring her shoulder. She proceeded to receive...
Apr 15 2002 // Hollywood, Calif., residents Juan Ortiz, 44, and Joseph Lewellen, 67, were charged with first-degree murder, arson, and insurance fraud due to a fire purportedly set by the pair at the Palomar Hotel in Hollywood, according...
Apr 15 2002 // Investigators from CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested 33 year-old Jamel Hassan Nichols for insur-ance fraud.The investigation began with two referrals from the California State...
Apr 15 2002 // A Washington couple faces an excess of criminal charges, including the alleged falsification of payroll records to avoid paying workers’ compensation premiums, among others.Clark County prosecutors have filed charges...
Apr 15 2002 // Keith Aaron Hayes was arrested on four counts of auto insurance fraud after a two year investigation revealed he allegedly conspired with others in the filing of false insurance claims.The conspirators included Lynnette...
Apr 12 2002 // Two New York doctors, charged as part of a fraud ring last December, have pleaded guilty to “felony insurance fraud charges admitting to fraudulently embellishing and falsifying their reports of the examinations of...
Apr 12 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers has voiced its initial support for the Cheaper Car Insurance Act, which would make auto fraud a federal crime punishable by as long as 15 years in prison and as much as $100,000 in fines....
Apr 11 2002 // Minnesota has taken a tougher stance against insurance fraud by establishing a fraud unit in the Department of Commerce and strengthening its laws by making it a crime to use runners and cappers to recruit...
Apr 11 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch Fraud Division arrested a Redding man on six felony counts of insurance fraud, six counts of grand theft and one count of...
Apr 10 2002 // William Kress, 50, of Hamlin, New York, has been arrested on charges of insurance fraud, following an investigation by the NYSID’s Frauds Bureau and State Farm’s Special Investigation Unit. According to the...
Apr 10 2002 // Stanislav Svinarenko was booked into the Sacramento County (Calif.) Jail with bail set at $5,000 after being arrested on one count of insurance fraud. The Fair Oaks resident faces up to five years in state prison, with a...
Apr 9 2002 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio applauded Senator Schumer (D-NY) for his proposals on “federal legislation to help curb auto insurance fraud,” and urged him to focus on the...