All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 28 2021 // Unlicensed insurance agent Karyl Lynn Reed, 57, formerly of Cosa Mesa, Calif., was arraigned this week on multiple felony counts of grand theft, forgery, embezzlement, and aggravated white-collar crime after allegedly...
Oct 27 2021 // The California Labor Commissioner’s office cited NGC Construction Inc. $7.2 million for wage theft violations affecting 724 workers.An investigation reportedly showed that the Visalia-based drywall company paid...
Oct 27 2021 // Growing ransomware attacks aren’t the only issue concerning the cybersecurity industry today, according to experts on this episode of The Insuring Cyber Podcast. Another concern within the cybersecurity workforce is...
Oct 26 2021 // North Carolina authorities announced Monday that a Raleigh man has been charged with falsely claiming that two Rolex watches had been stolen, an apparent ruse to gain insurance payments.James Henry Weeks III, 47, was...
Oct 25 2021 // A U.S. Army veteran in Maryland is facing federal charges for falsely claiming to be a paraplegic to obtain more than $1 million in government disability benefits.A federal criminal complaint charged William Rich of...
Oct 22 2021 // Late last month in New Castle County, Delaware, a grand jury indicted multiple residents for insurance fraud.The indictments stem from Department of Insurance Fraud Prevention Bureau investigations, in partnership with the...
Oct 21 2021 // The Wisconsin Office of the Commissioner of Insurance (OCI) has charged former insurance agent Richard Freeland with a number of violations of insurance law related to the sale of an unsuitable life insurance policy and...
Oct 21 2021 // U.S. Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco has a message for corporate America: The U.S. Justice Department needs its help in order to take down cyber criminals.“We cannot do this alone,” Monaco said on Wednesday...
Oct 19 2021 // The California Labor Commissioner’s office has cited JPI Construction $1.7 million for wage theft violations affecting 265 workers.An investigation reportedly found that the San Diego-based company failed to pay...
Oct 19 2021 // A veteran police officer and fire investigator has been named director of the state’s Insurance Fraud Bureau and assistant state fire marshal. Bill Herman began his career at the Montgomery County Police Department,...
Oct 18 2021 // Christopher Michalke, of Seattle, Wash., was charged in King County Superior Court with one felony count of filing a false insurance claim for a $14,753 Rolex watch after an investigation by Insurance Commissioner Mike...
Oct 14 2021 // A Portland, Michigan, woman has pleaded guilty to filing fraudulent insurance claims totaling more than $135,000, state insurance regulators say.According to Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS)...
Oct 12 2021 // Fourteen people have been charged in conjunction with an insurance fraud and theft scheme uncovered by a joint investigation by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Ogemaw County...
Oct 8 2021 // The former head of a Massachusetts homeless shelter stole about $1.5 million in part by secretly renting properties he owned to the shelter at above-market rates, prosecutors said.Manuel Duran, 69, then falsely certified...
Oct 7 2021 // The South Florida owners of a swimming pool company have been charged with swindling homeowners out of almost $2 million, as well as failing to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and insurance application...
Oct 7 2021 // A man who owned a Southern California pharmacy was sentenced to over five years in prison after he admitted submitting more than $13 million in fraudulent insurance claims for expensive medication.Thu Van Le, 42, pleaded...
Oct 7 2021 // A former employee of the Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was sentenced to 78 days in jail, to be spent on weekends, for accepting more than $40,000 in bribes in exchange for providing personal identifying information...
Oct 6 2021 // A Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 180 days in the Essex County Correctional Facility as a condition of probation for committing insurance fraud when he staged a motor vehicle accident in Newark, New Jersey.James E. Payne...
Oct 4 2021 // At least one person has been arrested after more than 175 bronze vases were stolen off graves in two southwest Louisiana cemeteries.More than 100 vases were stolen from Consolata Cemetery in Lake Charles and, next door,...
Oct 4 2021 // Top U.S. national security advisers will gather officials from 30 countries this month with plans to combat the growing threat of ransomware and other cyber crime, President Joe Biden said on Friday.An online session...