Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
World Cup Insurers Face Many Claims, Disputes Over Russia, Qatar
Jun 19 2015 // World Cup insurers are likely to refuse to pay out on many cancellation contracts if Russia and Qatar lose the rights to hold the tournaments because of fraud, industry experts said. Russia and Qatar could be stripped of...
Reinsurance Suit Against Greenberg Sent to New York’s Top Court Again
Jun 19 2015 // A decade-old lawsuit in which New York accused former American International Group Inc. Chief Executive Maurice “Hank” Greenberg of accounting fraud will head to the state’s highest court for a second...
Miami Home Health Company Settles Medicare Fraud Scam for $17M
Jun 19 2015 // A Miami home health company has agreed to pay $17 million for allegedly paying doctors to refer Medicare patients. Department of Justice officials said the settlement with Hebrew Homes Health Network Inc. is the largest...
Tarrant County, Texas Gets New Insurance Fraud Prosecutor
Jun 18 2015 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) recently named William “Doug” Wallace as a fraud prosecutor who will work exclusively with criminal prosecutors in the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office to...
New Insurance Fraud Fighting Laws in Effect in Minnesota
Jun 17 2015 // Minnesota now has two new laws that allow civil actions against those who commit insurance fraud, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud announced. The strong anti-fraud measures became law when Gov. Mark Dayton signed a...
Ex-Employee at Houston Store Gets Prison for Insurance Fraud
Jun 17 2015 // An ex-claims worker at a Houston decor store has been sentenced to more than seven years in prison and must repay $2 million in an insurance scam. Sandra Johnson of Katy was sentenced on June 15 in Houston. The 48-year-old...
Florida Busts Major Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam Involving Multiple Shell Companies
Jun 16 2015 // Six Central Florida insurance fraud arrests that break down an elaborate Central Florida workers’ compensation insurance fraud scheme were made this week, according to an announcement by Florida Chief Financial...
Arkansas Ex-Judge Sentenced in Insurance Fraud Case
Jun 12 2015 // A former Arkansas district judge convicted of drug charges has been sentenced in an unrelated mail fraud case involving American Indian artifacts. Bob Castleman, who was a judge in Pocahontas over a decade ago, has been...
Allstate Reunites Owner with ’72 Corvette 43 Years After It Was Stolen
Jun 9 2015 // Terry Dietrich celebrated her 62nd birthday by reigniting a teenage romance. The 62-year-old accountant from Duluth, Georgia, was finally reunited last week with the 1972 Corvette Stingray that was stolen from her more...
Lawyers on Both Sides of Blankenship Criminal Case Request Trial Delay
Jun 8 2015 // Prosecutors and defense attorneys are asking for an October trial in the criminal case against former Massey Energy CEO Don Blankenship. Blankenship is charged with conspiring to violate safety standards at the Upper Big...
Insurance Crime Bureau: Up to 10,000 Vehicles Impacted in Texas Floods
Jun 5 2015 // The recent flooding in Texas means the end of the road for an estimated 7,000 to 10,000 insured vehicles that suffered water damage, National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). That’s the current estimate from Copart, a...
Penn. Superior Court Judge Disbarred for Insurance Fraud Seeks Reinstatement
Jun 5 2015 // A former Pennsylvania Superior Court judge who was disbarred after his federal conviction for a $440,000 auto insurance fraud wants his law license reinstated. The Erie Times-News reports 66-year-old Michael Joyce will...
Fraudster Huff with ‘Staggering’ Record and ‘Chutzpah’ Gets 12 Years in Prison
Jun 5 2015 // A Kentucky businessman was sentenced on Thursday to 12 years in federal prison for a series of massive frauds, including a $53 million tax scheme, the bribing of bank officials and the defrauding of bank and insurance...
North Carolina Woman Accused of Insurance Fraud Against American Modern
Jun 4 2015 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin has announced the arrest of Rebecca McKinney Spencer, 28, of Leland, N.C.; she is charged with one count each of insurance and obtaining property by false...
Former Mass. Brokerage Owner Pleads Guilty to Stealing $10M From Aetna
Jun 3 2015 // A former insurance brokerage owner has pleaded guilty on June 2 in federal court in Hartford, Connecticut, to wire fraud and money laundering charges stemming from her theft of more than $10 million from Hartford-based...
Massive Copper Theft in NYC Latest Example of Troubling Trend Nationwide
Jun 3 2015 // Longtime New York City subway cops have seen copper thefts before, but last week’s heist on a stretch of open-air tracks was particularly brazen: 500 feet of inch-thick cable stripped from the rails in the middle of...
Florida Division of Insurance Fraud Makes Arrests in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Jun 3 2015 // The Florida Department of Financial Services’ Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF) has arrested Juan C. Garcia, owner of Construction Forever LLC, for his involvement in a workers’ compensation insurance fraud...
Former Mass. Jail Officer Sentenced for Fraudulently Collecting Benefits
Jun 1 2015 // Massachusetts authorities announced that a former Suffolk County correctional officer has pleaded guilty and been sentenced for fraudulently collecting hundreds of thousands of dollars in workers’ compensation,...
Wisconsin Farmer Accused of Crop Insurance Fraud
Jun 1 2015 // A farmer in Beaver Dam, Wis., is being accused of defrauding a crop insurance company. The U.S. Justice Department said that a federal grand jury indicted 37-year-old Jeffrey Lewke on nine counts of crop insurance...
Prosecutors Say No to Moving West Virginia Chemical Spill Criminal Case
Jun 1 2015 // Prosecutors oppose a motion by former executives asking a judge to move their criminal case over a chemical spill. In Charleston federal court May 29, prosecutors wrote that ex-Freedom Industries officials Gary Southern...
