All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 21 2019 // The owner of a Revere, Mass.-based contracting company has been indicted in connection with a workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme, according to Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey.Anner Valentin...
Mar 20 2019 // A Travis County body shop owner has been sentenced to 10 years of probation after pleading guilty to reporting wrecks that never took place and damaging vehicles to increase insurance payouts, the Texas Department of...
Mar 20 2019 // A licensed insurance agent out of Orlando, Fla., was arrested this month for allegedly submitting fraudulent insurance applications to multiple carriers, according to a statement from Florida CFO Jimmy Patronis.Sheila De...
Mar 19 2019 // The former owner of Vermont’s Jay Peak resort is fighting claims from a court-appointed receiver that it should pay millions in damages as part of a settlement.The Caledonian-Record reports Canadian Saint-Sauveur...
Mar 19 2019 // Former Steinhoff Chief Executive Markus Jooste and seven others were involved in a 6.5 billion euro ($7.4 billion) accounting fraud at the South African retailer, the new CEO said told lawmakers on Tuesday.Steinhoff said...
Mar 18 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Ariz., in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said earlier this month.The Yavapai...
Mar 18 2019 // Denouncing the state’s current ranking when it comes to consumer scams and insurance abuse, Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing fraud in the...
Mar 15 2019 // The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) is suing Volkswagen (VW) and its former chief executive Martin Winterkorn over the German automaker’s diesel emissions scandal, alleging a “massive fraud”...
Mar 14 2019 // A New Mexico non-profit that’s assembled gift bags for the Oscars and Grammys is facing a class action lawsuit brought by disabled employees who say it pays as little as 18 cents an hour.The suit is the latest to...
Mar 14 2019 // A Rhode Island insurance agent who specializes in insuring horses has been sentenced to three years in prison for defrauding clients, insurance companies and finance companies out of $1.3 million.Federal prosecutors say...
Mar 13 2019 // Zain Jaffer’s charmed, Silicon Valley life was about to collapse beneath him.It was October 2017 and Jaffer, founder of a promising mobile ad startup, was suddenly arrested and charged with a series of crimes,...
Mar 13 2019 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the first two months of 2019.Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to...
Mar 12 2019 // The former CEO of Palo Pinto General Hospital in Palo Pinto, Texas, has pleaded guilty to defrauding three major insurance providers – BlueCross BlueShield of Texas, CIGNA Texas, and United Healthcare – out of millions...
Mar 12 2019 // Sean Enrique O’Keefe said he started out as a “humanistic attorney,” but he became a mercenary and then a criminal who netted $700,000 a year by sending San Diego workers’ compensation claimants to...
Mar 7 2019 // A Spring, Texas, insurance adjuster has been sentenced for stealing nearly $100,000 from the insurance company where he worked, the Texas Department of Insurance announced.Allen Castillo pleaded guilty after an...
Mar 6 2019 // Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) Director Anita G. Fox has appointed Joseph Thomas as manager of the department’s Fraud Investigation Unit.Thomas has 31 years of experience in law...
Mar 6 2019 // Shift Technology has raised $60 million in new venture financing, money that will help grow the reach of its artificial intelligence and big data technology designed to help carriers detect fraud during the claims...
Mar 6 2019 // Uber Technologies Inc. is not criminally liable in a March 2018 crash in Tempe, Arizona, in which one of the company’s self-driving cars struck and killed a pedestrian, prosecutors said on Tuesday.The Yavapai County...
Mar 5 2019 // A former pharmaceutical representative has pleaded guilty in Texas to a role in an $8 million health care fraud scheme that netted her over $1 million, according to U.S. Attorney John Bash and FBI Special Agent in Charge...
Mar 5 2019 // Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy Patronis has announced a new initiative aimed at reducing fraud in the state.According to a statement from the Florida Department of Financial Services, the “Fraud Free...