All the headlines from our Numbers Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 30 2006 // Twenty-five suspects in connection with a major insurance fraud investigation dubbed “Operation Cashout” have been indicted, according to the California Department of Insurance. Twenty suspects were arrested...
Jun 26 2006 // It will cost more than $1.3 million to repair Western Kentucky University’s Cherry Hall, which was damaged by an arson fire April 23. Western’s President Gary Ransdell said the university has about half the...
Jun 26 2006 // Two Baton Rouge, La., men and a Donaldsonville attorney face charges of conspiring to defraud an insurance company of $100,000, according to the Louisiana State Police.Investigators believe Glenn Davis, 55, and Jessie...
Jun 23 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the early morning arrests of 20 suspects involved in a staged auto collision ring dubbed “Operation Freeway Squat.” The bust targeted a major auto...
Jun 19 2006 // Today’s younger producers seek more power. Since they can’t control the market changes swirling around them, many demand more influence within the agencies where they work. There is concern that their...
Jun 15 2006 // Three insurance companies filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday to recover $7.04 million in claims paid for homes damaged or destroyed in the 2002 Hayman Fire in Colorado.State Farm Fire & Casualty Co. Inc., three...
Jun 15 2006 // Three people have been sentenced in what prosecutors called a Medicaid fraud ring that used forged prescriptions. Eduardo Solis, 42, Juana “Janie” Garcia, 44, and Hermelinda Altamarino, 36, were indicted and...
Jun 8 2006 // California residents Cameron Harris, 44, of Norco, and Michael Weaver, 45, and Kelly Weaver, 43, of Corona, Calif., have been arrested for suspected insurance fraud. All three suspects were booked into the Riverside County...
Jun 7 2006 // Insurance agent Brenda Valentine of the Mountain State Insurance Agency Inc. has been indicted on six felony counts of insurance fraud; and Scott Saul of Pipeline Services has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation...
Jun 1 2006 // A federal grand jury in Los Angeles indicted two elderly women accused of befriending transient men and then collecting on life insurance policies worth $2.3 million (euro1.79 million) after the men died in hit-and-run...
May 26 2006 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division conducted an arrest warrant sweep that resulted in the arrests of eight suspects in Tulare, Fresno and San Luis Obispo counties.The suspects in these cases are...
May 24 2006 // Two major title insurance companies have agreed to end a practice of providing rebates to major commercial property customers at the expense of homeowners and small businesses, New York State Attorney General Eliot Spitzer...
May 22 2006 // About 40 percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated issue that pits trial lawyers against doctors, with lawmakers in the...
May 22 2006 // About 40 percent of the medical malpractice cases filed in the United States are groundless, according to a Harvard analysis of the hotly debated issue that pits trial lawyers against doctors, with lawmakers in the...
May 19 2006 // Texas Commissioner of Workers’ Compensation Albert Betts recently approved the reapplications for Certificates of Authority to Self-Insure covering a one-year period for nine private employers.Texas law allows...
May 18 2006 // The Louisiana Insurance Rating Commission has approved rate increases of less than 19 percent for three homeowner insurance companies.The largest of the increases, an 18.7 percent increase for 13,461 policyholders, went to...
May 18 2006 // Eight Massachusetts residents have been indicted for insurance premium fraud charges by a San Diego County grand jury. The eight owners and employees of Massachusetts-based National Independent Contractors Association...
May 12 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of three suspects who were allegedly said to have participated in the staging of auto collisions on the 605 Freeway.Three of the suspects —...
May 11 2006 // Late-night tornadoes swept through rural North Texas on May 9, killing three people, hospitalizing 10 and reducing homes to bare concrete slabs, officials said.An elderly couple were found dead in a destroyed home in the...
Apr 26 2006 // The National Council on Compensation Insurance Inc. has received approval for two new Florida-only class codes related to the marine industry effective July 1, 2006. NCCI is the oldest and largest provider of...