Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Is Hot Spot for Luxury Car Theft
Oct 23 2014 // Drivers of luxury vehicles in Florida should watch out. Their cars are the least likely in the U.S. to be returned if stolen. More than 25 percent of luxury cars taken from the beginning of 2010 through 2013 were never...
Former Claims Adjuster Must Repay Farm Bureau $20K in Kansas Fraud Case
Oct 23 2014 // A former insurance adjuster was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $20,000 in restitution for insurance fraud involving wrecked vehicles, according to an announcement by the Kansas Insurance Department. The Ford...
Pageler Named Chair of National Insurer Group’s Fraud Committee
Oct 22 2014 // Ranney Pageler, vice president of fraud investigations at Employers Insurance, has been named chair of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America (PCI) Fraud Committee. Pageler, who is based in Austin, Texas,...
Connecticut Police Officer Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 20 2014 // A former New London, Connecticut, police officer fired over accusations he leaked an internal police document and later rehired has resigned following his arrest on charges he fraudulently collected workers’...
Berkley FinSecure Forms Berkley Crime Unit
Oct 20 2014 // Berkley FinSecure, a W .R. Berkley company based in Towson, Md., has launched Berkley Crime, an operating unit focused solely on offering crime-related insurance products. The crime underwriting team of Berkley FinSecure,...
Appeals Court Upholds Prison Term for Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fraud
Oct 20 2014 // A federal appeals court has upheld the fraud conviction of man who pretended to be a shrimp-boat captain and alleged he lost his livelihood to collect oil spill recovery money. A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Court of...
Florida’s War On Workers’ Comp Fraud Targets Immigrants
Oct 20 2014 // Jeff Atwater, Florida CFOFlorida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater touted the arrests of more than 100 immigrant agriculture workers last July as an effort to crack down on the costly problem of workers’...
Alabama Trio Convicted in $2 Million Gulf Oil Spill Claims Fraud
Oct 16 2014 // Federal prosecutors said three people have been convicted of fraudulently filing Gulf Oil Spill Fund loss claims. Officials said 53-year-old Marcella Truss, her 42-year-old husband Martee Davis and the woman’s...
Copper Theft Leads to 10 Year Sentence for Texas Man
Oct 15 2014 // A San Antonio man has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for stealing copper in a ring that investigators say targeted Central Texas communication towers. Ricky Thatcher must also pay more than $163,000 to victims,...
AIG’s Barone Joins Beazley’s Fidelity and Crime Insurance Unit
Oct 15 2014 // Beazley Plc hired Matt Barone from American International Group Inc., becoming the second insurer in a month to recruit from AIG to build groups that sell coverage protecting corporate clients against crimes. Barone joins...
N.H. Resident Sentenced to Prison for Felony Insurance Fraud
Oct 13 2014 // The New Hampshire Insurance Department announced that a Nashua, N.H., resident pleaded guilty in Hillsborough County Superior Court on Oct. 9 to two charges of felony insurance fraud and one felony charge of bail jumping,...
Labor Advocates Question Florida Immigrant Workers’ Comp Arrests
Oct 9 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater touted the arrests of more than 100 immigrant agriculture workers last July as an effort to crack down on the costly problem of workers’ compensation fraud. But it quickly...
N.Y. Doctor Found Guilty in Massive No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme
Oct 7 2014 // Authorities announced that a Brooklyn, New York-based doctor has been found guilty in a no-fault insurance fraud scheme following a two-week jury trial. According to a statement Monday from Preet Bharara, the U.S. Attorney...
N.J. Commissioner Urges Seniors to Watch Out for Insurance Scams
Oct 6 2014 // New Jersey Department of Banking and Insurance Commissioner Ken Kobylowski advised senior citizens at a recent financial literacy meeting to be wary of insurance and other financial scammers. Kobylowski met with seniors at...
Alabama Store Owner to Plead in Jewelry Insurance Fraud
Oct 6 2014 // The former owner of a Mountain Brook, Alabama jewelry store has agreed to plead guilty in a missing diamonds case. Court documents filed last Friday show Joseph Harold Gandy of Vestavia Hills has agreed to plead guilty to...
Michigan Panel: Special Authority Needed to Target Car Insurance Fraud
Oct 6 2014 // Michigan should create a special authority devoted to targeting auto insurance fraud and require insurers to more frequently send electronic verification of drivers’ insurance to the state, a task force...
New Jersey Bill Seeks to Crack Down on Reverse Rate Evasion
Oct 3 2014 // The New Jersey Assembly passed a measure that would make reverse rate evasion an insurance fraud and provide for civil and criminal penalties. The bill, A 2281, passed the state’s Assembly on Monday and is pending in...
Florida Arrests 5 on Insurance Fraud Charges
Oct 2 2014 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrests of five NBRC Roofing Co. employees for allegedly organizing a $525,000 insurance fraud scheme. The Tampa-based company is accused of leaving 97 homeowners...
Europol: Data Law Changes Needed to Fight Cybercrime
Oct 2 2014 // Law enforcers in Europe need greater powers to retain data for longer in order to catch cybercriminals selling discrete services that police cannot trace under existing regulations, according to a Europol...
Institutional Officer Nabbed In $60,000 in California Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Oct 1 2014 // James Levice Davis Junious, 33, was arrested for allegedly collecting more than $60,000 in workers’ compensation benefits he was not entitled to receive. Junious was charged with five felony counts including...
