The most viewed headlines from our Fraud Topic Page over the last year.
Feb 25 2025 // A Florida framing contractor has been sentenced to 48 months in prison and millions of dollars in fines and restitution after he failed to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and ignored safety practices, leading...
Sep 2 2025 // A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud.Kenna Robinson, 50, pleaded guilty in the Douglas County District Court to one felony count of insurance fraud. Robinson involved multiple...
Jun 19 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
Apr 15 2025 // Five people have been charged in a large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving misrepresented life insurance policies that resulted in fraudulent commissions totaling over $1.4 million.The five, which include a former...
Apr 22 2025 // A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans.Dafud Iza, 54,...
Jan 27 2025 // A federal jury last week convicted a Maryland man for conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, money laundering, filing false tax returns and identity theft, according to the office of U.S. Attorney for the district of...
Feb 20 2025 // One person in Texas and four people in Florida, including a previously licensed insurance broker, face insurance fraud charges in separate schemes, local and federal authorities said Wednesday.In Hialeah, Florida, three...
Jul 10 2025 // A Maryland husband and wife have been sentenced to 12 years in prison and four years in prison, respectively, after their convictions for a $20 million scheme to commit insurance fraud.In addition to their prison...
Mar 31 2025 // Before his arrest Wednesday, Paul Steed was a respected sugar market expert for a subsidiary of famed candymaker Mars Inc. He served on a U.S. trade advisory committee for sweeteners as well as on industry group boards,...
Mar 31 2025 // About a year into the litigation between American International Group and startup Dellwood Insurance Group, a federal judge will allow much of AIG’s lawsuit to proceed against its newest potential competitor in the...
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...
Feb 24 2025 // A Texas man was sentenced last week to more than 13 years in prison for constructing a $5 million insurance fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas announced.Jordan Ford, 32, was charged...
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...
Aug 29 2025 // A Massachusetts couple was arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scheme that defrauded at least 50 individuals or insurance providers of more than $700,000 through their insurance agency, BL Insurance...
Apr 1 2025 // A Kentucky farmer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal crop insurance program of almost $1.5 million.Robert Thomas Hunt, of Taylor County in central Kentucky, asked grain haulers to sell...
Jan 31 2025 // Ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. filed a racketeering lawsuit against a group of law firms, doctors and pain-management clinics it claims staged fake car accidents and performed unnecessary surgeries to take...
Jan 28 2025 // First it was the fake bear insurance fraud that made headlines around the country. Now, it’s a fake deer that has landed a South Carolina woman in jail after authorities said she provided false information to a...
Jul 8 2025 // Armed thieves robbed a truck carrying 33 tons of gold and silver concentrate belonging to Grupo Minero Bacis, costing the company millions of dollars in losses.Assailants blocked the semi-truck with two white-colored...
Jul 28 2025 // U.S. insurance giant Allianz Life said on Saturday that hackers stole the personal information of the majority of its customers, financial professionals, and select Allianz Life employees in the United States.The insurance...
Feb 19 2025 // A former Ohio insurance agent was sentenced this month to five years of probation for thefts exceeding $1.4 million.Rhonda Chandler, of the Columbus area, stole and misappropriated funds, including premiums for pre-need...