The Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services announced that a Plainwell resident was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered to comply with future court-ordered restitution for submitting roughly $47,000 in fraudulent insurance claims. A restitution hearing is …
Fourteen people have been charged in conjunction with an insurance fraud and theft scheme uncovered by a joint investigation by the Michigan Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) and the Ogemaw County Sheriff’s Office. The Michigan DIFS said the …
Japan Post Holdings Co. Ltd. on Wednesday said it will buy 7 percent of U.S. insurer Aflac Inc. for about $2.4 billion, as the postal and financial conglomerate seeks new profit-drivers to counter weak growth prospects. Japan Post, majority-owned by …
Thirteen current and former New York City employees have been arrested in a $500,000 insurance fraud scheme. Authorities say 10 FDNY emergency medical technicians and paramedics, including EMS officers, and three NYPD traffic enforcement agents were arraigned Tuesday on charges …
A former Los Angeles County probation officer, Robyn Palmer, 29, of Long Beach, Calif. was arrested Thursday on six felony counts of insurance fraud for allegedly forging documents to illegally collect disability insurance benefits while serving probation for another insurance …
A high percentage — 42 percent on average — of all companies providing access to voluntary accident and disability insurance report declines in their workers’ compensation claims, according to the results of an online survey released by Aflac, a leading …
A Port Authority police officer has been charged with insurance fraud for claiming he was disabled while moonlighting in a rock band. Authorities say Christopher Inserra defrauded the AFLAC insurance company and the Port Authority of New York and New …
A pastor in North Carolina has been arrested and accused of taking about $23,000 in an insurance scam. The Hickory Daily Record reported that 47-year-old Chuck Hager was arrested and charged with 13 felonies. The pastor of New Beginnings Christian …
Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner John D. Doak and McCurtain County District Attorney Mark Matloff announced the conviction and subsequent sentencing of Matthew Hammer, a formerly licensed insurance agent in Oklahoma. The Oklahoma Insurance Department’s Anti-Fraud Unit led the investigation of Hammer, …
Seven family members, including a former Hidalgo County district court probation officer, have been convicted for their roles in a $3 million scheme to defraud American Family Life Assurance Company (Aflac). In a news release from the U.S. Attorney’s Office …
