Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Stolen Laptop Contained Data on S.C. Health Insurance Pool Members
Dec 31 2013 // A laptop stolen from an auditor’s car contained the personal information of more than 3,400 members of the South Carolina Health Insurance Pool, an attorney hired by the pool told The Associated Press on Monday. The...
Overseas Hackers Suspected in Target Breach; Stolen Data Reported Selling Online
Dec 24 2013 // Investigators believe that overseas hackers were responsible for the cyber attack on U.S. retailer Target Corp. that compromised up to 40 million payment cards during the first three weeks of the holiday shopping season, a...
Cellphone Records Call Up Fraud Against Washington Woman
Dec 23 2013 // An investigation by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s office has resulted in charges of theft and fraud against a Tacoma woman who attempted to collect insurance money for a car she claimed was stolen...
New Jersey Chiropractor Sentenced in $89K Insurance Fraud
Dec 22 2013 // A northern New Jersey chiropractor was sentenced to state prison for causing false documentation to be submitted to insurance companies and subsequently receiving over $89,000 to which he was not entitled. Joseph Salomone,...
New Jersey Roofer Indicted for Alleged Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Dec 22 2013 // Authorities have charged the head of a central New Jersey roofing company with stealing more than $265,000 through alleged insurance fraud. The state attorney general’s office says Charles Kelcy Pegler Sr., was...
Happy Holidays: Target’s Message May Put Scare Into Firms Without Cyber Coverage
Dec 20 2013 // Target Corp.’s data breach headache may be an opportunity for insurance carriers, insurance agents, risk managers and businesses to spread the word about cyber risk – although the message is bit of a scary one. The...
R.I. Woman Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud, Ordered to Pay $10K
Dec 20 2013 // A 76-year-old Providence, Rhode Island, woman must pay $10,000 in restitution on a charge of obtaining money under false pretenses for allegedly collecting workers’ compensation benefits while she was employed. The...
Target Credit Card Breach a Reminder U.S. Lags in Personal Data Security
Dec 20 2013 // The security breach of credit and debit card data at Target Corp. is evidence of the increasing threats retailers face and a reminder that the U.S. lags behind much of the world in securing personal financial...
Former California Broker Charged With Identity Theft And Forgery
Dec 19 2013 // Former insurance agent Eugene Shy-Ren Hsu, 31, of West Covina, Calif., was arrested by Department of Insurance officers and charged with multiple felony counts. The charges include grand theft, forgery, and identity theft...
New York to Provide $4M Grant Funding to Fight Auto Theft, Insurance Fraud
Dec 19 2013 // New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announced the state will provide nearly $4 million in grant funding to 29 local police departments, district attorneys’ offices and other agencies in the state to combat motor vehicle theft...
BP Seeks Halt to Oil Spill Payments to Seafood Firms, Alleges Attorney Fraud
Dec 18 2013 // BP Plc asked a U.S. judge to stop payments in the $2.3 billion seafood-industry portion of its settlement over the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil spill pending an investigation of fraud claims against a plaintiffs’...
Insurance Crime Bureau: 38% Drop in Questionable Claims in Michigan
Dec 16 2013 // Questionable insurance claims in Michigan dropped by 38 percent from 2010 through 2012, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB). Questionable claims (QC) are those claims that NICB member insurance...
Philadelphia Claims Adjuster Charged With Stealing $700K
Dec 16 2013 // A Philadelphia insurance adjuster has been jailed on charges he stole more than $700,000 from 29 successful claims made by people in the suburbs, including 10 stemming from property damage caused by Hurricane Sandy last...
Mississippi AG Charges 3 with Insurance Fraud
Dec 16 2013 // Three Biloxi residents have been arrested and charged with insurance fraud, Mississippi Attorney General Jim Hood said. Hood’s news release said 47-year-old Rosemary Henderson, 38-year-old Lavon Donnell Cherry and...
Broker Pleads Guilty in NYC Charity Theft, Faces Up to 25 Years in Prison
Dec 13 2013 // An insurance brokerage owner has admitted to helping a longtime Jewish community leader steal more than $7 million from a prominent New York City charity has pleaded guilty to charges The New York Times says Joseph Ross...
California Business Owner To Pay Millions For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 9 2013 // Richard Lopez Escamilla Jr., 47, was sentenced in Kings County Superior Court in California on Dec.4 to one felony count of insurance fraud and was ordered to pay restitution of nearly $4.2 million to State Compensation...
Ohio Ex-Pharmacist Sentenced for $2.1M Insurance Fraud
Dec 9 2013 // Ohio officials say a former pharmacist convicted in a $2.1 million health care fraud scheme has been sentenced to 4 1/2 years in prison. Barbara Elise Miller of Coshocton was sentenced in federal court in Akron. A...
Judge Blocks BP Investors from Suing as Group Over Losses
Dec 9 2013 // BP Plc’s U.S. investors can’t pursue as a group claims that the company inflated its shares with misleading statements before and after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, a judge ruled, citing a recent Supreme Court...
Florida Lawyer Found Guilty in $800M Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 6 2013 // A South Florida attorney has been convicted for his role in an $800 million insurance fraud scheme involving investments in death benefits. A jury on Wednesday convicted 64-year-old Anthony Livoti Jr. of money laundering...
With Focus on Property Crimes and Violence, Dallas Police Write Fewer Traffic Tickets
Dec 5 2013 // Police in Dallas have issued 37,000 fewer traffic tickets as the force puts more resources toward fighting property crimes and violent offenses. Officers wrote more than 211,800 tickets in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30,...
