All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 9 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced the his Department’s “Top 10” list of the worst insurance fraud cases in the state for 2003.“This list of ‘Rotten...
Feb 26 2004 // Governor George E. Pataki has announced $4.3 million in grants to 27 programs to reduce motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud across New York State. The funding will be distributed to programs that provide law...
Jan 29 2004 // “East London Bobbies will be experiencing the world of brief cases and pin-striped suits as part of a new mentoring scheme,” said a bulletin from Lloyd’s.Senior police officers from Tower Hamlets will...
Jan 29 2004 // The U.S. Attorney’s Office in Boston announced that “Anthony Snow, age 43, of 1810 Dorchester Avenue, Dorchester, Massachusetts, pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Patti B. Saris to an Information...
Dec 22 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that two department employees have been arrested for Public Bribery and Conspiracy to Commit Public Bribery.According to the LDI, in February 2001 the Louisiana State Police...
Dec 19 2003 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that two department employees have been arrested for Public Bribery and Conspiracy to Commit Public Bribery.According to the LDI, in February 2001 the Louisiana State Police...
Dec 18 2003 // Insurance fraud isn’t a uniquely American phenomenon, as the Insurance Bureau of Canada’s recent announcement shows all too clearly. Our neigbors north of the border have also chosen their “top ten”...
Dec 10 2003 // The vigorous crackdown on insurance fraud and abuse spearheaded by New York’s insurance companies, law enforcement agencies and prosecutors, and supported by tough insurance department regulations and a statewide...
Dec 1 2003 // Insurance Bureau of Canada recently joined with Toronto Police in announcing the initial results from Project Heat (Help Eliminate Auto Theft).In the first three weeks of the latest round of Project Heat, Toronto Police...
Nov 17 2003 // The New York State Insurance Department announced that 16 people, includng four current and one former NYPD officer, have been charged with grand larceny and other offenses in the theft of nearly a quarter of a million...
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
Sep 10 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County man has been sentenced in Superior Court for his reported role in an organized scheme to illegally obtain official police accident reports in order to...
May 9 2003 // A former detective in the Hialeah Police Department was arrested on charges that he filed several fictitious accident reports to create “patients” for a friends’ medical clinic, according to the Florida...
May 1 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. has issued a statement indicating that the state budget proposal to raise the current $1 annual Motor Vehicle Law Enforcement Fee to $5 is misdirected.“If the...
Dec 19 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, in conjunction with Chief Tom McCarthy of the Fayetteville Police Department and Chief Tommy Hagens of the St. Pauls Police Department, announced the arrest of Eugenia Rose...
Nov 28 2002 // A new partnership between the National Equipment Register (NER) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) is beginning to put a dent in heavy equipment theft with the recovery of more than $100,000 in stolen equipment...
Nov 22 2002 // Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and New York State Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio, announced today that 28 car owners and 43 other individuals have been arrested...
Nov 12 2002 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) now offers police reports as part of its public records offering on the ISO ClaimSearch® antifraud system. The enhancement of ISO ClaimSearch service includes access through its...
Nov 5 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that a former City of Miami police officer is facing numerous felony charges after he allegedly bought more than 280 police accident reports for $25 each...
Oct 24 2002 // Three police officers of the 61st Precinct in Brooklyn, N.Y. have been charged with insurance fraud after allegedly falsifying at least two dozen auto accident reports resulting in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent...