All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Apr 3 2000 // Martha Rosa Olivera of Ceres was arrested on insurance fraud charges after she knowingly filed a fraudulent claim. CDI fraud investigators found that in April of 1997, the 41-year-old woman reported to the Stanislaus...
Mar 30 2000 // A Massachusetts insurance agent was sentenced to three years probation and a fine of $40,000 Wednesday for his role in a in a plan to reduce workers’ comp insurance premiums for a rubbish collection company owned by...
Feb 2 2000 // The Pennsylvania Insurance Fraud Prevention Authority (IFPA) released its top 10 insurance fraud cases of 1999. IFPA’s billboards say, “Commit Insurance Fraud. Enjoy Luxury Living.” They threaten jail...
Feb 1 2000 // According to a report by Reuters News Agency, the Brazilian Insurance Federation can only verify about 70 percent of the claims received by local insurers concerning lost or stolen vehicles. A record 353,000 cars were...