All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business.Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Nov 8 2018 // Criminal charges have been announced against 60 Pennsylvanians following investigations by the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section. As a result, 23 people were charged in Eastern Pennsylvania, 10 in Central...
Nov 6 2018 // Anna Gabriela Garcia, 46, of Capistrano Beach, Calif., was arraigned and charged with 40 felony counts of grand theft after allegedly collecting premium payments from customers and diverting the funds of over $195,000 for...
Nov 6 2018 // A Michigan agent has been fined $25,000 and had his insurance license revoked after an investigation revealed he had been creating and selling fake auto insurance certificates, the state’s insurance regulators...
Nov 5 2018 // A Rhode Island insurance agent who prosecutors say specializes in providing insurance on horses has been arrested on federal charges.The U.S. Attorney’s office in Providence says 57-year-old Randall Levesque, of...
Nov 5 2018 // In an effort to keep the Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis from further worsening in the state, Florida’s insurance industry, regulators and consumer advocates are on high alert for AOB activity in the wake...
Nov 5 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case.Theodore Robert Wright III...
Nov 2 2018 // Donations made by pro-Brexit groups including Arron Banks’ Leave.EU will be investigated by police after the Electoral Commission said they may have “knowingly concealed” the true source of 8 million...
Nov 2 2018 // Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation of utility company NiSource Inc over gas explosions and fires in three Massachusetts communities that killed one person and injured at least 21 others in...
Nov 1 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Kaydra Moore of Cedar Hill, Texas. on workers’ compensation fraud charges.The court sentenced Moore to a Class A misdemeanor with...
Nov 1 2018 // A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining insurance identification cards as part of a scheme to steal luxury used vehicles from dealerships in New Jersey and New York.Paige Hunt, 27, of Bloomfield,...
Oct 30 2018 // Two people in Michigan face felony charges filed by the state’s attorney general for allegedly selling fraudulent insurance to customers.The charges are the result a joint investigation by the Child, Elder, and...
Oct 30 2018 // Three contractors conducting business in Leon, Gadsden, and Gulf counties have been removed from the Panhandle by the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team for unlicensed...
Oct 25 2018 // Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge in August and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public...
Oct 18 2018 // In an effort to keep the Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis from further worsening in the state, Florida’s insurance industry, regulators and consumer advocates are on high alert for AOB activity in the wake...
Oct 17 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released a study that shows the impact of medical provider fraud on the system, and it finds that efforts by the state as well as local district...
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case.Theodore Robert Wright III...
Oct 15 2018 // State officials say an Albany-area contractor has pleaded guilty to scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars out of minority-owned businesses and failing to pay dozens of his employees.Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
Oct 12 2018 // A St. Louis chiropractor has been sentenced to 30 months in prison and fined $350,000 for a scheme that involved bribing police officers to get information used to solicit clients.Mitchell Davis was sentenced in U.S....
Oct 12 2018 // Two Minnesota chiropractors have been sentenced to prison for their roles in separate multi-million-dollar insurance fraud conspiracies, the Minnesota Commerce Department announced.Adam John Burke, age 34, of Minneapolis,...