All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 10 2000 // Three Southern California residents— Raul Eduardo Pero, 58; Monique Liza Pero, 24, Raul’s daughter; and Emma Gloria Alcaraz (a.k.a. Gloria Emma Barrett), 65, of Los Angeles—have been charged with insurance fraud...
Jun 30 2000 // One day after the resignation of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a former aide has been targeted in a criminal probe alleging he accepted kickbacks while on the job. Attorney General Bill Lockyer opened the...
Jun 22 2000 // A Worcester, Mass. man was charged Wednesday with operating an auto body shop that routinely inflicted damage on cars brought in for repair and defrauded insurance companies by submitting false claims for the extra...
Jun 21 2000 // June 21, 2000 9:35 a.m. CDTAllstate Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Progressive Casualty Company and three of its affiliates, served summons and complaints throughout the Denver area last Thursday...
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that 18 individuals were arrested following an undercover sting investigation involving a garage that functioned as a “chop shop”. The...
Jun 12 2000 // Nine suspects were arrested on May 18 following a 15-month joint investigation code-named “Operation Cleansheet,” conducted by the CDI Bureau of Investigations and Fraud Division, the FBI, the U.S....
Jun 12 2000 // In conclusion to one of the largest workers’ comp fraud cases in San Diego county history, Doug and Ricki Stricker of Escondido, Calif., and owners of the Stricker Organization, a well-known roofing company, have...
Jun 12 2000 // Steven Alan Ford of Norco, Calif., was recently arrested on workers’ compensation fraud.According to CDI fraud investigators, the 47-year-old man filed a w/c claim in 1995 for an injury sustained to his back. He...
Jun 7 2000 // Anthony Callicchio, owner of General Auto Glass Repair in New York, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to make full restitution after pleading guilty for defrauding Cerebral Palsy Transport’s...
Jun 7 2000 // The NICB analysis reported that close to 450,000 cars and trucks were stolen countrywide in 1998 in metropolitan areas with ports or close to international borders. Each year more than 200,000 vehicles are exported...
Jun 5 2000 // Scheduled for release later this year, NetDetect scores claims for potential fraud — not just at first notice of loss — but throughout the claims lifecycle. The announcement was made at IASA 2000, the Insurance...
May 31 2000 // The operators of a Lowell, Mass. medical clinic catering to patients claiming injuries from automobile accidents have pled guilty to charges of operating a scheme to defraud automobile insurance providers between 1993 and...
May 30 2000 // Last week, as the Arizona Diamondbacks faced the Pittsburgh Pirates at Bank One Ballpark, the Department of Insurance (DOI) staff members were joined by McGruff, the Crime Dog to spread the message that insurance fraud...
May 29 2000 // Tina Marie Gains of Elk Grove was arrested and charged with five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of unemployment benefits fraud. The 42-year-old woman allegedly made false statements in order to...
May 15 2000 // Thanks to the Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit, the Department of Public Safety, the Phoenix Police Department, and the help of a forensic odontologist, a 30-year-old Phoenix man with a broken front tooth who is...
May 1 2000 // Larry Ollison, a former member of the rock band The Platters, pled guilty of one felony count of insurance fraud.According to CDI fraud investigators, the 50-year-old Stockton man filed roughly 22 false claims with...
Apr 24 2000 // The accusations are fierce, the stories heart-wrenching. Lost homes, marriages, fortunes and even lives are piling up on the doorstep of Lloyd’s of London, which has been accused for years of not disclosing potential...
Apr 18 2000 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee unanimously approved a bill allowing insurance companies to share with each other information about suspected fraud cases. The bill requires insurers to report fraud...
Apr 10 2000 // Dr. Hubert Cameron Gibson III has been convicted of nine counts of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion. Gibson, the owner of New Beginnings Rehabilitation and Turning Point centers in Fort Worth, was indicted...
Apr 10 2000 // A primer on how negligence differs from fraud, what constitutes negligence and how Texas law appliesFor a century and half, or so, tort law was divided into business torts and personal injury. Business torts includes such...