All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 2 2024 // New Mexico labor announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico.The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that...
May 2 2024 // Kent Bo Fridolfsson, 67, of Benicia, California, pleaded guilty to six charges of insurance fraud and grand theft after a joint investigation with the California Department of Insurance, Solano County District...
Apr 30 2024 // Montgomery, Alabama, authorities have charged two workers – a contract employee and a firefighter – with insurance fraud in unrelated alleged scams.Local news outlet reported that Michael Granger Hicks, who worked for...
Apr 26 2024 // Cyber claims frequency in the U.S. rose 13% last year, a new report shows.According to Coalition’s 2024 Cyber Claims Report, released this week, cybercrime is “a thriving business that adversely impacts”...
Apr 25 2024 // McKinsey & Co is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosecutors homing in on its work advising...
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
Apr 23 2024 // A Michigan doctor was bound over last week in the 48th District Court in Bloomfield Hills on charges stemming from an allegedly fraudulent disability insurance claim and subsequent years of receiving fraudulent payments,...
Apr 23 2024 // Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and the New York attorney general on Monday agreed to changes in the terms of the $175 million surety bond Trump secured with Knight Specialty Insurance Co. (KSIC).Attorney General...
Apr 22 2024 // Authorities have added four more insurance fraud charges to those already lodged against an city official in coastal Alabama. Prichard City Councilman Derrick Griffin last week was indicted by a grand jury for the second...
Apr 19 2024 // A federal appeals court has sided with three chiropractors in ruling that claims under New Jersey’s personal injury protection statute concerning insurance fraud are subject to arbitration.GEICO has lost its bid to...
Apr 18 2024 // This post is part of a series sponsored by AgentSync.Having a criminal charge or conviction in one’s background can make things more difficult for a licensed insurance producer. However, it doesn’t always have...
Apr 17 2024 // An Iowa woman was charged with insurance fraud following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud Bureau.Amanda Riggle, age 45, of Red Oak was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Fraudulent...
Apr 16 2024 // Dutch-headquartered chipmaker Nexperia was victim of a hacking attack by cyber criminals last month, the Chinese-owned company said on Friday, and was investigating the incident with the help of outside...
Apr 16 2024 // Shareholders cannot sue companies for fraud if they flout a rule requiring disclosure of trends expected to affect their bottom line unless the omission makes another statement misleading, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled on...
Apr 16 2024 // The FBI said on Monday it opened a criminal probe into the collapse of a Baltimore bridge in March when a ship crashed into a bridge support, while local officials confirmed the recovery of a fourth body from the...
Apr 12 2024 // A former assistant principal at a Virginia elementary school has been charged with felony child neglect more than a year after a 6-year-old boy brought a gun to class and shot his first-grade teacher.A special grand jury...
Apr 11 2024 // Few mechanics post photos of themselves on Venetian canals, brag about buying $30,000 artworks or frequent the George V Hotel in Paris and Chateau Marmont in Los Angeles.But this was the life Donnie Callaway portrayed via...
Apr 10 2024 // It was another record-breaking year for vehicle thefts in 2023, with more than one million vehicles reported stolen – an overall increase of 1% nationwide from 2022 to 1,020,729 last year.A report from the National...
Apr 10 2024 // A freshly formed hacking gang claims to have won access to a massive stash of data stolen from UnitedHealth Group, the largest U.S. health insurer, but with little evidence to go on it is not clear whether they are telling...
Apr 10 2024 // A federal grand jury in Connecticut returned a six-count indictment charging a Norwalk, Connecticut business owner with fraud offenses related to his operation of a prize insurance business.According to the officials,...