All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 2 2001 // Fraud investigators in June busted a Tampa fraud ring that crashed cars at a private site, scooped up the debris and moved the wreckage to a public roadway. The members then called police so that they could file fraudulent...
Mar 26 2001 // Fraud investigators in June busted a Tampa fraud ring that crashed cars at a private site, scooped up the debris and moved the wreckage to a public roadway. The members then called police so that they could file fraudulent...
Mar 26 2001 // For many people not directly involved in the development of software for the insurance industry, any discussion of new technology can rapidly swell into a serious information overload. Compounding this problem is the...
Mar 21 2001 // A five-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch has led to the arrest of a Sacramento man for insurance fraud. Richard Wayne Bento, 30, was arrested earlier this week on...
Mar 19 2001 // A lawyer hailing from Tennessee pleaded guilty Friday to conspiracy and money laundering in an insurance fraud scheme masterminded by Martin Frankel. Frankel allegedly purchased insurance companies in Tennessee,...
Mar 14 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch on Tuesday arrested Jeffrey Ferguson of Tuolumne County, Calif. on charges of workers’ compensation fraud.Ferguson is being...
Mar 13 2001 // Financier Martin Frankel pleaded not guilty Monday to a string of charges, including fraud.Frankel was arraigned in U.S. District Court in New Haven, Conn., following his extradition on March 2 from Germany, where he...
Mar 12 2001 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investiga-tions Branch reported evidence that fraudulent certificates of insurance have been issued to more than 100 taxicab companies operating throughout California,...
Mar 12 2001 // Following a two-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch, investigators arrested three Sacramento residents-John Michael Hermoso, 40; William Gregory Hoshall, 39;...
Mar 12 2001 // On March 8, Allstate Corp., the second-largest auto insurer, was awarded $8.2 million in a landmark fraud case involving nine medical clinics accused of billing for treatments that were never rendered, according to an...
Mar 7 2001 // Independent Insurance Agents of America State Government Affairs Committee chairman Ronald A. Smith, testifying at a joint hearing of the Oversight & Investigations and Financial Institutions subcommittees, called on...
Mar 6 2001 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. lent its cooperation in an investigation, conducted by the Westchester district attorney’s office, the Westchester County Dept. of Public Safety, the New York State Police and the New...
Mar 5 2001 // New York Superintendent Neil D. Levin announced that a joint undercover investigation conducted by the Department’s Frauds Bureau and the New York City Police Department’s Auto Crime Division has led to the...
Mar 5 2001 // Search warrants were executed at more than 10 locations in California in February, according to the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch. Investigators were hunting for evidence of unlicensed...
Feb 26 2001 // Johnny Brocktune Lew of Stockton, Calif., was sentenced to seven years and four months in state prison for plotting an insurance fraud scheme to sink his luxury yacht. The sentence was handed down by San Joaquin County...
Feb 26 2001 // A joint investigation by the CDI Criminal Investigations Branch, the Los Angeles District Attorney’s Office, the Insurance Fraud Unit and HIH Insurance Company led to the conviction of Jesus Evaristo Gonzalez of...
Feb 23 2001 // The California Department of Insurance is looking into allegations of premium theft, embezzlement and other violations connected with the Redwood City, Calif.-based Wersching Insurance Agency, which is run by former San...
Feb 19 2001 // In what looks uncomfortably like a return to the offshore scams of the late ’80s, several reports of questionable taxicab policies using the names of two well-known carriers have recently surfaced in California. The...
Feb 16 2001 // Search warrants were executed at more than 10 locations in California in the past two weeks, according to the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch.Investigators were hunting for evidence of...
Feb 15 2001 // Ohio Department of Insurance Director Lee Covington released a list of the Top 10 Insurance Fraud violations for 2000. During 2000, the Department opened 144 fraud cases.At the Insurance Department, the Enforcement...