All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 19 2019 // New York state lawmakers couldn’t approve marijuana legalization this session, and the legislature is now considering a back-up bill that would expand access to the drug for medical reasons and decriminalize its...
Jun 19 2019 // Ten individuals have been arrested in a three-day unlicensed contracting and workers’ compensation fraud sting in Pinellas County, Fla., according to a statement from Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis.The joint operation...
Jun 17 2019 // A New Jersey man who owned moving companies has admitted cheating customers by low-balling estimates and then jacking up prices once the goods were on his trucks. Rami Zubidat of Clifton on Wednesday pleaded guilty in...
Jun 14 2019 // One afternoon in late October 2017, hundreds of students from the elite Avenues private school in Manhattan were loaded onto buses, ready to head home. Suddenly, school principal Abby Brody got a disturbing smartphone...
Jun 14 2019 // A southeastern Iowa woman has been sentenced to two years’ probation and ordered to pay more than $14,000 in restitution and penalties for insurance fraud. The Iowa Insurance Division said in a news release that...
Jun 13 2019 // Real estate billionaire Sam Zell and other former officers and directors of Tribune Co. have reached a $200 million settlement resolving allegations of fraudulent transactions related to the media company’s...
Jun 13 2019 // Two insurance fraud suspects pleaded guilty and one suspect entered a diversion program after investigations by Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal Investigations Unit.Abdikarin A. Mohamed pleaded guilty...
Jun 12 2019 // In separate cases involving alleged staged accidents, two individuals have been charged in North Dakota with insurance fraud totaling nearly $29,000.The North Dakota Department of Insurance reported that charges were filed...
Jun 12 2019 // Two artificial intelligence providers — omni:us and FRISS — are teaming up to “supercharge” insurance claims management and fraud detection.omni:us is a provider of AI-based cognitive claims...
Jun 10 2019 // Federal prosecutors say a bookkeeper for a northern New Jersey company stole $1.7 million from the firm by writing herself fraudulent company checks.Tammy Martinez was arrested Thursday and charged with bank fraud. She was...
Jun 10 2019 // A Florida elementary school teacher was arrested on multiple felony charges including insurance fraud and organized scheme to defraud for allegedly staging a fake car accident in a local Publix parking lot, according to a...
Jun 7 2019 // A New Hampshire company that contracted with the U.S. Department of Defense to purchase mats to absorb hazardous materials has pleaded guilty to making false statements. The U.S. Attorney’s office says Enco...
Jun 6 2019 // Specialist insurer Beazley has streamlined its MediaTech insurance policy to provide clear and concise wording and combined comprehensive errors and omissions (E&O) and media liability insurance with cyber...
Jun 4 2019 // A current insurance agent in Iowa and a former one have been charged in connection with a fraud investigation in which another agent was previously charged.Insurance agent Cursta Lena Williams of Davenport, and former...
Jun 3 2019 // Two Chicago, Illinois, women have pleaded guilty for their roles in a scheme to defraud the U.S. Department of Labor Office of Workers’ Compensation Programs (OWCP) of $1.7 million by falsely billing for services on...
Jun 3 2019 // A man sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud must repay Texas Mutual Insurance Co. more than $26,000, a Travis County district court said.According to Texas Mutual, Ricky Allen Martinez of Sugar Land, Texas,...
Jun 3 2019 // Brittany Jones and Steven Jones, of Marysville, Wash., each were charged with one count of filing a false insurance claim in Snohomish County Superior Court on May 14.The charges stem from an auto insurance claim and...
May 31 2019 // Former insurance agent Richard Brian Willand, 54, of Sylmar, Calif., voluntarily surrendered at the Los Angeles County Superior Court in San Fernando on a warrant for his arrest for alleged grand theft of insurance premium...
May 31 2019 // Iowa insurance agent Jonathan Adam Schlue, age 35, of Davenport, faces four counts of Fraudulent Sales Practices (Class D Felony), two counts of Fraudulent Submissions (Class D Felony), two counts of Conspiracy to Commit a...
May 30 2019 // A state audit says a Louisiana school bus mechanic allegedly stole about $200,000 in fuel by using a school board fuel card to fill log truck tanks.The audit says a phishing scam cost the Union Parish School Board another...