All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 13 2001 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority released its annual statistics. The IFPA funds 13 law enforcement units throughout the commonwealth using assessments on insurance companies.Without spending one cent...
Feb 12 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 12 2001 // Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among the 127 criminal violations charged in the warrant are insurance fraud, grand...
Feb 5 2001 // In an effort to assist insurers and departments of insurance, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners has undertaken the daunting task of compiling a directory of how departments of insurance across the country...
Jan 31 2001 // Three construction company owners from Arizona and a California attorney have been accused of insurance fraud and employment tax evasion by California insurance officials. Jay Neal Wright, 48, his son, Jay Neal Wright II,...
Jan 22 2001 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that the department’s year-end fraud fighting statistics show that arrests and criminal convictions reached an all time high. In 2000, arrests increased...
Jan 12 2001 // A former Easton, Penn. man and his wife have been returned to Lehigh County from Thailand to face charges of allegedly conspiring to steal nearly $1.6 million from insurance companies by faking the husband’s death...
Jan 8 2001 // Larry Lee Reed of Encino was arrested on suspicion of fraud last week for allegedly hiding hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of assets when he declared bankruptcy, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. The...
Jan 8 2001 // The demarcation between years always seems to take on a contemplative aspect. We look back to where we’ve been, and then look forward to weigh our expectations. Will the market continue to harden? Will the dot-coms...
Jan 4 2001 // Following a six-month investigation, former insurance agent Charles Stanley Tigner was arrested on a Tulare County Superior Court warrant. Among the 127 criminal violations charged in the warrant are insurance fraud, grand...
Jan 2 2001 // Jesus Evaristo Gonzalez, 39, plead guilty to workers’ compensation insurance fraud on Dec. 26, 2000. A sentencing hearing in Los Angeles County Superior Court will be held in February 2001; Gonzalez could face up to...
Dec 20 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced that Arnold J. Pieroni Jr., 49, of Lewiston was arraigned on Dec. 15, 2000. He plead not guilty on two counts of insurance fraud in the second degree and one...
Dec 19 2000 // The owners of a San Jose, Calif. insurance agency who duped customers of more than $10 million pleaded guilty Monday to multiple felony charges in an effort to reduce their prison sentences. Kimberly Morgan, 36, agreed to...
Dec 15 2000 // An Aurora, Ill., businessman was sentenced Wednesday to six years in prison for fraudulently claiming everything from a flood to lightning damage to his homes and businesses. According to a Chicago Tribune report, James...
Dec 13 2000 // Edwin F. Santiago of Palmdale, Calif., was arraigned on Dec. 11 on one felony count of insurance fraud following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance investigations branch. Santiago, 41, was booked...
Dec 11 2000 // The efforts of FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers have led to the arrest of 12 people involved in a highly organized fraud ring that staged auto accidents to steal millions of dollars from insurance companies. The...
Dec 6 2000 // After surrendering to investigators yesterday, Victor Tafoya, 58, of Sacramento was arrested on one felony count of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. In October of 1998, Tafoya’s residence caught fire...
Nov 30 2000 // Paul Franklin Ostrove of Hermosa Beach was sentenced to six months in jail for insurance fraud after making false statements about his qualifications to pilot an aircraft when filing a claim in connection with the crash...
Nov 28 2000 // A South Dakota grand jury indicted a man late last month for filing a false insurance claim. The grand jury charged Steven Fideler, 45, with one count of filing a false insurance claim and one count of manufacturing a...
Nov 27 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced the indictment of 17 individuals in connection with the operation of a multimillion-dollar auto theft, dismantling and stolen parts ring operating in Queens and...