The most viewed headlines from our Fraud Topic Page over the last 30 days.
Jan 7 2025 // A former insurance agent plead guilty to stealing premium from a premium finance company.Formerly licensed insurance agent Tonja Van Roy, 59, who currently resides in Las Vegas, but operated an insurance agency based in...
Dec 17 2024 // New York’s largest taxi insurer that is facing serious financial and regulatory challenges has filed a lawsuit seeking more than $450 million against medical providers it alleges have been part of a huge fraud scheme...
Dec 27 2024 // One in six (17%) young drivers admit to being on a ‘fronted’ policy, which is illegal, according to research by United Kingdom insurer Aviva.Fronting is a form of insurance fraud where the young driver is...
Dec 20 2024 // Noblr, a USAA Insurance subsidiary offering insurance through an online quoting application, will pay $500,000 following a data breach that New York officials say affected 80,000 people and led to fraudulent unemployment...
Dec 31 2024 // As Rhode Island state officials feared would happen, hackers responsible for a ransomware attack on a popular state-administered benefits portal have posted some of the stolen information to the dark web.Governor Dan McKee...
Dec 12 2024 // The CEO of one of California’s largest vocational return to work counseling centers appeared in court this week after being charged with 23 felony counts including insurance fraud, theft and forgery.Hazel Ortega, 53,...
Dec 13 2024 // Eight people and two law firms have been charged in what authorities say was more than a decade-long scheme of staging vehicle crashes in the New Orleans area and then submitting fraudulent insurance claims, leading to...
Dec 26 2024 // Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill’s Louisiana Bureau of Investigation Special Agents arrested a former employee with the Sewerage & Water Board of New Orleans on December 20 for allegedly committing...
Dec 17 2024 // Massachusetts law enforcement officials report that 12 individuals identified as stealing 63 high-end vehicles totaling more than $2.6 million have been arraigned.Another individual related to the investigation has an...
Dec 31 2024 // A Vermont man has been charged with first degree arson and insurance fraud for allegedly setting fire to his own home in Stamford.The Stamford Fire Department responded to a fire on Mill Road on the morning of December 27....
Dec 20 2024 // A California man was sentenced to 16 years in prison for filing false claims on dozens of auto collisions.Jacob McNabb, 33, of Bakersfield, was sentenced following a jury’s guilty verdict on four felony counts...
Dec 11 2024 // The U.S. Supreme Court sidestepped on Wednesday a decision on whether to allow shareholders to proceed with a securities fraud lawsuit accusing artificial intelligence chipmaker Nvidia of misleading investors about how...
Dec 23 2024 // Be on the lookout for Grinch-like characters hanging out at transportation hubs over the holidays.A CargoNet analysis of holiday-period theft data from the past five years shows a heightened risk during the Christmas and...
Dec 17 2024 // CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) — A former maintenance director of a southern West Virginia county school system was charged in a scheme to steal about $3.4 million from a local board of education.Michael David Barker appeared in...
Dec 31 2024 // The conclusion of a criminal case against Alec Baldwin in the fatal shooting of a cinematographer clears the way for a related civil lawsuit by relatives of the deceased woman and efforts to depose the actor under oath,...
Dec 16 2024 // Once considered to be simply “bean counters,” accountants now play an important role in the defence, investigation and protection against cybercrime.Modern cybercrime includes stealing personal information,...
Jan 6 2025 // Russia-appointed officials in Moscow-occupied Crimea announced a regional emergency on Saturday, as oil was detected on the shores of Sevastopol, the peninsula’s largest city.Fuel oil spilled out of two...