Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
AIG Sued by Small Businesses Over Workers’ Compensation Reporting
Oct 10 2013 // Class action lawsuits in federal courts on both coasts have been initiated on behalf of small businesses in California, New York and New Jersey against American International Group (AIG) over workers’ compensation...
Arizona Forgery Ring Suspect Sentenced For Insurance Fraud
Oct 9 2013 // Frederick Farris pled guilty to attempted fraud schemes and artifices, which is a class 3 felony, and was sentenced to 6.5 years in Arizona State Prison. Ferris was found in possession of forged insurance claim checks. The...
Allstate Wins Major Medical Fraud Lawsuit in Nevada
Oct 7 2013 // Allstate Insurance Co. received a judgment of more than $7 million following a Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations investigation nearly 10 years in the making. It is the company’s first medical fraud...
Ex-Iowa Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty in Mail Fraud Case
Oct 7 2013 // A Marshalltown, Iowa, insurance agent accused of selling customers fake insurance policies has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors. In exchange for the guilty plea four...
2 from Kentucky, 1 from West Virginia Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Oct 4 2013 // A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme. The Charleston Gazette reported that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of...
6 Indicted for Arson, Insurance Fraud Scheme in Missouri
Oct 1 2013 // Six people have been indicted by a federal grand jury in Missouri for their roles in an arson and insurance fraud conspiracy, Tammy Dickinson, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, announced. One of the...
Montana Man Sentenced For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 30 2013 // A 76-year-old Havre, Mont. man has been ordered to pay nearly $84,000 in restitution in a workers’ compensation fraud case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen also sentenced...
Kansas Attorney Sentenced on Insurance Fraud Charges
Sep 27 2013 // A Sharon Springs, Kan., attorney and former insurance agent has been ordered to repay $47,685 and will serve 18 months’ probation after pleading guilty to forgery, failing to forward an insurance premium, theft by...
Allstate Wins $7.7M Insurance Fraud Lawsuit in California
Sep 27 2013 // A Los Angeles County Superior Court has ruled in favor of Allstate Insurance Co. and the State of California in a lawsuit topping $7 million over fraudulent business and billing schemes by unlicensed medical and...
Ex-Iowa Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty in Mail Fraud Case
Sep 26 2013 // A Marshalltown, Iowa, insurance agent accused of selling customers fake insurance policies has pleaded guilty to a charge of wire fraud in a plea agreement reached with prosecutors. In exchange for the guilty plea four...
Public Adjusting Firm, Owner Admit Insurance Fraud in New Jersey
Sep 25 2013 // State authorities in New Jersey say a Monmouth County-based public adjusting company has admitted submitting fraudulent insurance claims in an attempt to defraud a New Jersey-based insurer out of more than $15,000. Long...
BofA Denies Government Claim of ‘Massive Fraud’ in Trial Over Mortgages
Sep 25 2013 // Bank of America Corp.’s Countrywide unit placed profits over quality in a “massive fraud” selling shoddy mortgages to Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, a U.S. government lawyer said on Tuesday. The claim came...
Mississippi Insurance Agency Owner Charged with Fraud
Sep 23 2013 // A Philadelphia, Miss., man has been charged with multiple counts of insurance fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release that 46-year-old Phillip Willis was indicted in Neshoba County on three counts of false...
Anticipation
Sep 23 2013 // The fight against insurance fraud never ends. And despite efforts to combat fraud most insurers anticipate an increase in fraud. One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers do not feel adequately protected against fraud,...
New Jersey Cardiologist Accused of Fraudulent Billing
Sep 20 2013 // A New Jersey cardiologist stands accused of stealing more than $52,000 by billing insurance companies for services that allegedly were performed while he was out of the country. Ahmad Mossavi, also known as Seyed...
Mississippi City Employee Sentenced for Fraudulent Deer Accident Claim
Sep 20 2013 // A former code enforcement officer in Natchez has been sentenced to two years’ probation for insurance fraud. The Natchez Democrat reported that 58-year-old Willie B. Jones was sentenced this past week by Circuit...
Michigan Secretary of State Launches Anti-Fraud Task Force
Sep 19 2013 // With the aim of battling auto insurance fraud, Michigan Secretary of State Ruth Johnson has launched an anti-fraud task force – Fighting Auto Insurance Rip-offs (FAIR) – that involves Michigan State Police,...
Allstate Wins Major Medical Fraud Lawsuit in Nevada
Sep 18 2013 // Allstate Insurance Co. received a judgment of more than $7 million following a Racketeering Influenced in Corrupt Organizations investigation nearly 10 years in the making. It is the company’s first medical fraud...
Mississippi Man Charged with Property Insurance Fraud
Sep 18 2013 // A Washington County, Mississippi man has been charged with three counts of insurance fraud involving property claims. Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release that 31-year-old Oliver Johnson of Greenville was being...
Violent, Property Crimes Decreased in 2012: FBI
Sep 16 2013 // The FBI estimates that in 2012, the number of violent crimes increased 0.7 percent while property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively. The 2012 statistics show...
