All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 20 2000 // The Illinois Insurance Fraud Task Force has unveiled recommendations to create more detailed reporting requirements and a whistle blower statute to combat organized insurance fraud in Illinois.Director of Insurance Nat...
Nov 16 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. served summons and complaints this week against Scott Greenberg, D.C., a New Jersey chiropractor whom the company claims defrauded personal injury protection benefits through an intricate...
Nov 15 2000 // The Connecticut Insurance Department will be hosting its second annual Insurance Fraud Summit on Nov. 21, 2000 in Hartford, Conn. The summit will be a day-long event featuring state and national experts, including Howard...
Nov 15 2000 // Elvira Marcela Santamaria of Baldwin Park, Calif., turned herself in to the Tulare Superior Court, Visalia Division, after learning a five-count auto insurance fraud and grand theft warrant had been issued for her...
Nov 14 2000 // Thieves continue to find sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and mini-vans attractive targets. According to a new study conducted by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a not-for-profit insurance organization committed...
Nov 13 2000 // A Madera County, Calif. woman was arrested last week on workers’ comp fraud charges.Jennelle Nanleen Allen, 38, was arrested by the California Department of Insurance and Madera District Attorney’s Office...
Nov 13 2000 // People outside the industry are always surprised to learn how much fraud insurance companies are actually forced to deal with. It wasn’t until fairly recently, in the late 1980s, that insurance companies and local,...
Nov 13 2000 // Following a 17-month investigation, Evangelos Tsorakis of Elk Grove, Calif., was arrested at his residence yesterday on four felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. The 47-year-old man was booked...
Nov 10 2000 // An insurance fraud ring run by Ukrainian and Russian immigrants was broken up Thursday with the arrest of 22 people involved in selling cars then allegedly reporting them stolen. In all, 37 people were indicted in the...
Nov 8 2000 // On the night of Nov. 6, David Wayne Derr was arrested at his residence and booked into Sacramento County Jail for insurance fraud. If convicted, the 42-year-old man could face up to five years in state prison and/or a...
Nov 3 2000 // An investigation by the Arizona Department of Insurance (DOI) Fraud Unit led to no-contest pleas last week in Maricopa County Superior Court by three owners of Phoenix, Ariz.-based Advantage Auto Glass LLC in connection...
Nov 2 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has served summons and complaints against New Jersey’s Spring Lake Psychological Group, and its owners Warren L. Goldberg and Carmela Gutierrez, for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent...
Nov 2 2000 // California Department of Insurance Investigators in conjunction with Kern County District Attorney’s Office arrested Bakersfield residents Lonzoe Richard Hart, 64, and Barbara Jean Cornelius, 52, on workers’...
Oct 31 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...
Oct 23 2000 // Seventeen individuals have been charged with bilking the New York Insurance Fund and other carriers of over $130,000 in workers’ comp benefits by falsely claiming they were disabled, said New York Superintendent of...
Oct 20 2000 // According to a recent survey compiled by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), medical fraud rings, staged auto accidents, arson, and workers’ comp scams top the list of fraud concerns for the...
Oct 20 2000 // California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low released a statement yesterday that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) will not pay legal fees for former Commissioner Quackenbush, William Palmer; George Grays or...
Oct 17 2000 // Yahoo Inc. launched a new program backed by coverage from Lloyd’s of London to protect purchases made on its auction and shopping sites. According to Brian Fitzgerald, producer for Yahoo auctions, the move is...
Oct 2 2000 // Albert F. Melchione, 71, of Rockland, Mass., and his grandson, Richard J. Melchione, Jr., 30, of Hull, Mass., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme to...
Sep 27 2000 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has submitted proposed legislation to grant state insurance regulators access to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database. The NAIC made the request in...