All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 23 2001 // AM-KO Inc., a janitorial company providing services for the City of Dallas, entered a plea of “no contest” to a third degree felony for defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund (Texas...
Jul 23 2001 // Three Nolan County, Texas, farmers pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court July 12 to filing over $540,000 in fraudulent crop insurance claims with the federal government. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the...
Jul 19 2001 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Raymond Ellis Wilson, Orange County, Calif., was charged with four felony counts of insurance fraud and booked into an Orange County Central jail last week, and bail...
Jul 13 2001 // A pair of Fresno, Calif., residents were arrested following a 10-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and several other task forces,...
Jul 10 2001 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) announced that the California Assembly Insurance Committee on July 11 will hold a hearing to debate legislation that would impede insurer efforts to investigate...
Jul 9 2001 // Rhode Island’s Medical Disciplinary Board has revoked Chiropractor Andrew J. Lombardi’s license to practice in the State following an indictment in Massachusetts alleging that that he had submitted 39...
Jul 9 2001 // Federal legislation aimed at helping prevent fraud from within the ranks of the rapidly converging financial service sector has been voted out of the House Financial Services Committee.This legislation — the Fin-ancial...
Jul 9 2001 // A Travis County grand jury has indicted Houston businessman Randall C. Long on charges of defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund of some $167,000 in premiums. With the indictment, Long, owner of ST...
Jul 2 2001 // According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), illegal street racing may be “Fast and Furious” as a popular film suggests, but the real production is largely funded by fraud and theft.The popular film...
Jun 27 2001 // RC Knox & Company, the insurance agency subsidiary of People’s Bank, announced the formation of the eFraud Alliance and the eTailer Fraud Solution Insurance Policy (eFSIP) to protect online businesses from the...
Jun 26 2001 // Following a six-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Organized Automobile Fraud Interdiction Task Force, a former Sacramento auto dismantler was arrested on four felony counts of insurance...
Jun 25 2001 // CDI fraud investigators arrested a Fresno resident, Kyle Cory Bettencourt, 27, on auto insurance fraud charges on May 22, 2001 and booked him into the Fresno County Jail. Bettencourt was charged with four felony counts of...
Jun 25 2001 // CDI investigators arrested Martha Rodriquez of Riverside on charges of workers’ compensation fraud and perjury. Rodriquez, 37, also known as Graciela Castro, was booked into Riverside County Jail on a $5,000 felony...
Jun 22 2001 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Co. went to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in an attempt to rescind a crime insurance policy it had issued to the now defunct Tri-State Armored Services of Hammonton.The insurer...
Jun 22 2001 // In an effort to educate consumers nationwide about insurance fraud and the price we all pay for these crimes, the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released...
Jun 21 2001 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced that Ronald Allen Prasky, 31, owner and operator of Border Pacific Insurance Services, was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court today to seven years in state prison....
Jun 20 2001 // Lee Likhit Kongsiri and his wife Phatcha, former Lehigh County residents, were each given 14 year prison terms for defrauding six different life insurers a total of $1.6 million by faking Lee’s death in Thailand in...
Jun 20 2001 // A report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) notes that the most common insurance fraud schemes include anyone from organized criminals, corrupt doctors, lawyers and body shop operators to residents who pad...
Jun 19 2001 // The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority, which oversees the insurance industry, has asked the country’s serious fraud office to investigate certain aspects surrounding the collapse of Independent Insurance Co.,...
Jun 18 2001 // Anti-fraud reforms recently passed in Tennessee, Florida and Nevada are a signal that insurance fraud is becoming a top-tier crime around the country, according to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a national...