All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2001 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) honored the work of two veteran insurance investigators, Nationwide’s George K. Butler and Erie’s Richard K. Fritz, with its first ever “Fraud...
Sep 25 2001 // A California Department of Insurance (CDI) employee has surrendered to Los Angeles Superior Court following being charged with one count of insurance fraud by the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office. Nestor...
Sep 24 2001 // Arrest warrants were served on five local Fresno residents last week, concluding a six-month investigation that began with a referral by Geico Insurance alleging fraud on a reported theft and arson of a vehicle.The CDI...
Sep 24 2001 // Progressive Insurance recently conducted a telephone survey on more than 31,000 Americans, asking respondents how likely they would be to commit insurance fraud and other indiscretions if they knew they would not be...
Sep 20 2001 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a pair of Sacramento County residents last week on workers’ compensation fraud.Kathleen Anstead was booked...
Sep 19 2001 // Two individuals were arraigned on felony grand theft charges stemming from an embezzlement scheme uncovered by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch, Fraud Division. If convicted, each...
Sep 17 2001 // Experts from the insurance industry, law enforcement, automobile manufacturers and dealers, as well as prosecuting attorneys and state legislators gathered Tuesday for Michigan’s first Auto Theft Forum 2001, a...
Sep 11 2001 // A pair of individuals were arraigned on felony grand theft charges as a result of an embezzlement scheme which was uncovered by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch, Fraud Division. The...
Sep 10 2001 // Following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division, Raymond Ellis Wilson, 36, an Orange County resident, pled guilty in Orange County Superior Court to one felony count of insurance...
Sep 10 2001 // The CDI announced the arrest of two individuals in unrelated cases, both involving Sacramento residents. Daniel Vikash, 20, surrendered to authorities on two felony counts of insurance fraud. In April 2001, Vikash...
Sep 10 2001 // A former police officer, Brett Leroy Cox, 37, was sentenced to three years probation and 120 hours of community service for one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud, to which Cox pled no contest in Fresno County Superior...
Sep 10 2001 // 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...
Sep 10 2001 // I think more and more folks are getting comfortable at least to the point of neutrality now.”That is one insurance industry spokesman’s take on AB 1193, a bill that would prohibit insurance companies from...
Sep 7 2001 // With a $120 billion annual price tag, insurance fraud is one of the costliest crimes in America. Progressive Insurance recently conducted a telephone survey on more than 31,000 Americans to better understand how people...
Sep 5 2001 // In spite of an ongoing influx of litigation, U.S. courts continue to reject class-action lawsuits involving diminished value, a concept referring to the difference between the value of a vehicle before and after it was...
Sep 4 2001 // A Massachusetts court awarded MetLife Auto & Home $2,989,270 in damages for fraud against the owners and operators of numerous auto body repair shops, several former policyholders and one of its former appraisers.The...
Sep 4 2001 // Monsignor Emilio Colagiovanni, an 81-year old Catholic Priest, is being held in Bridgeport, Conn. following his arrest by FBI agents in connection with the investigation of the multi-million dollar fraud and embezzlement...
Aug 31 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), California Assembly members are poised to vote on a bill that would “hamstring” insurers’ ability to conduct investigations when they...
Aug 31 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch, Fraud Division, served arrest warrants on five local Fresno residents last week.The arrests concluded a six-month...
Aug 27 2001 // An eight-month joint investigation conducted by investigators from the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the California Highway Patrol and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) resulted in the...