All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Oct 18 2019 // Two men from San Juan County, N.M., are accused of committing arson and insurance fraud while allegedly setting up another man to take the fall.County sheriff’s officials say 54-year-old Patrick Roller and...
Oct 18 2019 // A former western Pennsylvania church administrator has pleaded guilty to stealing $1.2 million that prosecutors say he and his wife used to pay for vacations, sports tickets and other personal expenses. Fifty-year-old...
Oct 18 2019 // Louisiana’s high court recently nixed the idea that an unconfirmed or unverified drug test can be used to prove intoxication or fraud in order to deny the workers’ compensation claim of an injured worker.In...
Oct 15 2019 // Great American Insurance Group, headquartered in Cincinnati, Ohio, has hired Matthew (Matt) Brown and Joseph (Joe) Szary as divisional directors within its Fidelity /Crime Division.Brown has 16 years of industry experience...
Oct 14 2019 // A federal agency is moving with little fanfare to revamp one of the most successful whistleblower programs in the government, alarming advocates who warn the changes will set back efforts to police Wall Street and punish...
Oct 10 2019 // A woman has been accused of stealing more than $100,000 while working for a Beatrice, Nebraska, insurance agency.Gage County Court records say 44-year-old Nicole Nelson is charged with felony theft. Her attorney...
Oct 10 2019 // A man previously accused of involvement in a Louisiana cattle theft ring has been indicted in Texas on charges he also stole cows from a rancher there.The Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association said in a news...
Oct 10 2019 // The owner of a Malden, Mass.-based cleaning company pleaded guilty and was sentenced to jail in connection with an insurance fraud scheme that involved worker misclassification, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey...
Oct 9 2019 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced Joe D. Lozano, Sr. of Midland, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges.Lozano reported a job-related injury while...
Oct 9 2019 // A Greek shipowner orchestrated a plan for men posing as pirates to attack and set fire to his tanker, in an elaborate fraud to seek $77 million in insurance money, a London judge found.In 2011, Marios Iliopoulos lured the...
Oct 8 2019 // FRISS, the insurtech provider of AI-powered anti-fraud solutions for the P&C insurance industry, has extended its partnership with Munich Re to now support insurers in their fight against fraud.Following their...
Oct 7 2019 // Kenneth X. Huang, 41, was sentenced last week to two years in federal prison, three years supervised release, and ordered to pay $259,594 in restitution over a reported fraud scheme involving insurance in California.A...
Oct 7 2019 // The restaurant industry, like many cash industries, is ripe for theft. One thing to take note of is just how contagious bad behaviors like stealing tend to be inside food establishments.New research by three researchers...
Oct 4 2019 // Three people in Miami have been arrested in an alleged $39,000 personal injury protection (PIP) fraud scheme, according to a statement from the Florida Department of Financial Services.Alean Machado, Barbarito Leyva-Claro,...
Oct 1 2019 // A Kearney, Nebraska, woman has been convicted of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim of nearly $246,000. Hall County District Court records say a jury found 49-year-old Debra Shriner guilty of the fraud and of...
Sep 30 2019 // Ex-insurance agent Yolanda De La Torre, 35, of Whittier, Calif., was arrested on Friday on one felony count of grand theft and one felony count of identity theft after allegedly collecting over $13,000 in insurance...
Sep 30 2019 // A Salem, Mass., man was indicted in connection with a scheme to set up a shell company to fraudulently collect benefits under a long-term care insurance policy, Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey...
Sep 27 2019 // Europe’s widening money laundering scandals took a new turn as ABN Amro Bank NV disclosed a criminal probe over alleged failures to check on clients and report suspicious transactions, a further sign of woe in an...
Sep 26 2019 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) reported it secured eight fraud-related convictions in August, bringing 2019’s total to 63.BWC assisted in the investigation that led to the Aug. 30 sentencing of...
Sep 25 2019 // A Zanesville, Ohio, man and former county deputy sheriff must reimburse the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) nearly $235,000 in restitution after being convicted on Sept. 23 on workers’ compensation...