Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
4 N.J. Residents Charged With Staging Car Crash, Seeking Insurance Payouts
Oct 19 2015 // A Union County, New Jersey, man and three others were indicted on Oct. 14 for allegedly orchestrating a staged auto accident in Paterson, New Jersey, in 2012 and later seeking more than $48,000 in medical payouts from his...
Texas Tops for Heavy Equipment Thefts in 2014: Report
Oct 19 2015 // A report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows that thefts of heavy equipment increased nationally in 2014 by 1.2 percent over the previous year, and that Texas had the highest number of such...
DA Suspends Funding Agreement with Workers’ Comp Insurer, Texas Mutual
Oct 19 2015 // The Travis County, Texas District Attorney’s office said it is suspending an agreement with Texas Mutual Insurance Co. under which the company provides funds for prosecutors to pursue the workers’ compensation...
Florida Chiropractor Accused of $1.5M Insurance Fraud Scam
Oct 18 2015 // Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of Broward County, Florida Chiropractor Eric Wiegandt, 41, on multiple felony fraud charges related to a $1.5 million insurance fraud scheme. A joint state and...
Nashville Attorney Accused of Stealing from Client’s Settlement Checks
Oct 14 2015 // A Nashville personal injury attorney has been accused of stealing more than $280,000 from his clients’ settlement checks. The Tennessean reported Oct. 7 that police had seized computers and boxes of files from John...
Fraud Class Action Claim Filed Against Fantasy Sports Sites
Oct 9 2015 // Fantasy sports companies FanDuel and DraftKings are coming under further pressure as a player in Kentucky accused them of negligence and fraud in a lawsuit. Adam Johnson, a daily fantasy player from Jefferson County, says...
California Doctor Indicted in $150M Insurance Fraud Not in Custody, D.A. Says
Oct 8 2015 // Los Angeles prosecutors say the doctor who orchestrated a $150 million insurance fraud scheme and allowed his assistant to perform surgeries is not in custody in Germany as they had previously reported. A spokeswoman for...
Florida Man Arrested for Stealing $100K in Insurance Claims from Sandy Victim
Oct 7 2015 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud announced the arrest of Naples, Fla., man Daniel T. Phelps, 56, for allegedly stealing two insurance claim payments totaling more than $96,000 from an elderly New Jersey business...
Florida Massage Therapist Arrested for PIP Fraud Against Multiple Insurers
Oct 7 2015 // The Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrest of John Alexander Fraga (aka Juan Alejandro Fraga) for his involvement in the alleged billing of more than $40,000 to...
N.Y. Broker Pleads Guilty to Stealing Nearly $830K in Premiums, Other Funds
Oct 6 2015 // A Jericho, New York, insurance broker pleaded guilty to stealing nearly $830,000 in insurance premiums and other funds, said Acting Nassau County District Attorney Madeline Singas’ office. Singas’ office said...
Texas Tops for Heavy Equipment Thefts in 2014: Report
Oct 6 2015 // A report released by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) shows that thefts of heavy equipment increased nationally in 2014 by 1.2 percent over the previous year and that Texas had the highest number of such...
Former Southern California Insurance Agent Sentenced for Felony Fraud
Oct 5 2015 // Hesham Saleh Ibrahim, 57, of Palmdale, Calif., pleaded no contest to felony insurance fraud and was sentenced to three years felony probation, 30 days community labor and ordered to pay nearly $1,000 in restitution and...
Texas a Top State for Watercraft Thefts: NICB
Oct 5 2015 // While the number of watercraft thefts continued on a downward trend in 2014, Texas remains one of the five top states in which such thefts are likely to occur. Texas ranks third for watercraft thefts, behind Florida and...
CVS Settles Fraud Claims by Investors for $48M
Oct 5 2015 // CVS Health Corp. reached a $48 million settlement of a lawsuit accusing the U.S. drugstore operator of fraudulently concealing a big loss of revenue in its pharmacy benefits manager business, culminating in a plunge in its...
Watercraft Thefts Down but Texas Still a Top State for Them: NICB
Sep 30 2015 // While the number of watercraft thefts continued on a downward trend in 2014, Texas remains one of the five top states in which such thefts are likely to occur. Texas ranks third for watercraft thefts, behind Florida and...
Florida Man Charged with Fraud, Theft of 4M Pounds of Citrus
Sep 29 2015 // State agriculture officials say a Florida man is accused of illegally obtaining more than 4 million pounds of citrus, valued at over half a million dollars, from five different individuals and companies. Agriculture...
Florida Workers’ Comp Fraud Sting Leads to 9 Arrests
Sep 28 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced nine arrests following a multi-agency workers’ compensation sting in Manatee County, Florida. These nine individuals...
Former Mayor of Georgia Town Pleads Guilty to 12 Counts of Insurance Fraud
Sep 28 2015 // Former Milledgeville, Ga., Mayor Richard Bentley has pleaded guilty to 12 counts of insurance fraud. Multiple media outlets report that Bentley was sentenced in Baldwin County Superior Court to 10 years probation, given a...
Former Florida Insurance Agent Arrested for Stealing $20K in Premiums
Sep 23 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) announced the arrest of Lisa Dwyer, 49, a formerly licensed insurance agent employed by Southeast Insurance Agency in Davie, Fla., after...
Trying to Put a Price Tag on Volkswagen’s Emission-Fraud Scandal
Sep 22 2015 // An $18 billion liability figure attached itself last Friday to Volkswagen’s diesel disaster. This morning comes news that the German car maker has set aside $7.3 billion (€6.5 billion) to cover a scandal spreading...
