All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 28 2002 // • A California man pled guilty to knowingly receiving, possessing and without authorization appropriating stolen trade secret information belonging to his former employer—specifically, customer and order information in...
Jan 25 2002 // Six weeks after arresting 112 persons on various charges of insurance fraud, (See IJ Website Dec. 6) New York’s Auto Insurance Fraud Unit has struck again with the arrest of 20 persons accused of being part of...
Jan 23 2002 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a San Bernardino man on seven counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud.According to...
Jan 17 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department’s Frauds Bureau (FB) set new records last year for the investigation and apprehension of persons suspected of committing insurance fraud in the State. Iinvestigations resulted...
Jan 15 2002 // The Hartford has filed a civil action in Morris County State Court against 27 New Jersey residents, charging that they conspired to stage motor vehicle accidents and fake injuries to generate hundreds of thousands of...
Jan 14 2002 // Following a four and a half-year investigation and prosecution by CDI, the Employment Development Department (EDD) and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office, Laurence Bennett Guy was sentenced in Superior...
Jan 14 2002 // A California man pled guilty to knowingly receiving, possessing and without authorization appropriating stolen trade secret information belonging to his former employer—specifically, customer and order information in...
Jan 11 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department’s embrace of on-line technology has enabled it to step up the battle against fraudulent claims, and to handle a record number of cases last year.“The past 12-18 months...
Jan 11 2002 // Ohio’s Department of Insurance will host the 2002 Insurance Fraud Seminar on Wednesday, March 6. The seminar will feature presentations by several fraud enforcement experts on topics such as “Crimes Against...
Jan 11 2002 // An Insurance Research Council (IRC) and Insurance Services Office Inc. survey shows that insurers of all sizes consider fraud “a serious problem.”According to a PRNewswire report, more than one-third of...
Jan 11 2002 // Terry Thomas, 31, a resident of Downey, Calif., was sentenced in Los Angeles Superior Court on Jan. 4, to five years in state prison for his conviction on one count of insurance fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit...
Dec 24 2001 // James Gus Sdrales, 33, was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court on Dec. 3, to one year of work furlough and five years of felony probation as a result of his guilty plea to two felony counts of insurance fraud and two...
Dec 24 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a husband and wife recently for workers’ compensation premium fraud.Richard and Janey Bonet...
Dec 24 2001 // The Organized Auto Fraud Interdiction Task Force, comprised of investigators from the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the California Highway Patrol, and the National Insurance Crime Bureau,...
Dec 18 2001 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Criminal Investigation Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Sacramento husband and wife on four counts of insurance fraud.Ram Singh, 41, was arrested and...
Dec 17 2001 // Following a nine-month investigation, New York authorities have charged nine individuals and one corporation on various counts of defrauding the State’s Workers’ Compensation Fund. The persons involved all...
Dec 17 2001 // Following a combined two-and-a-half-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division and Investigation Bureau, two Sacramento residents were arrested on charges of insurance fraud.Charles...
Dec 17 2001 // In Houston, U.S. District Judge Melinda Harmon ordered four defendants accused of defrauding State Farm Insurance by making false claims in hundreds of staged auto accidents to pay damages to the tune of $26...
Dec 11 2001 // California Department of Insurance Fraud Investigators arrested a Fullerton man last week on one count of insurance fraud and two counts of perjury.Jagdish Chandra, 58, was booked into the Orange County Jail on a $10,000...
Dec 7 2001 // The Pennsylvania Auto Theft Prevention Authority (PATPA) warned holiday shoppers that “December and January are peak activity periods for car thieves.” Common sense measures like parking in well-lit areas,...