Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Montana Man Pleads Guilty In Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jun 6 2013 // A 76-year-old Havre, Mont. man has pleaded guilty to mail fraud in a case for failing to report that he owned a profitable business while receiving more than $277,000 in federal worker’s compensation benefits from...
Pentecostal Bishop in Philadelphia Charged With Insurance Fraud
Jun 3 2013 // A Philadelphia bishop has been charged with insurance fraud related to water damage that his Pentecostal church sustained. State investigators say Bishop Benjamin Fisher of the Greater Bethel Temple in northeast...
Property Crime Down, Violent Crime Up in 2012: FBI
Jun 3 2013 // The nation experienced a 1.2 percent increase in the number of violent crimes and a 0.8 percent decline in the number of property crimes in 2012 when compared with data from 2011, the FBI said. Violent crime increased in...
Florida Alleged Insurance Fraud Leader Found Competent for Trial
Jun 3 2013 // The alleged leader of an $800 million South Florida insurance fraud scheme has been found competent to stand trial despite severe pain from a spinal cord ailment that requires him to take powerful drugs including...
Michigan Broker Gets 5 Years in $1M Fraud Case
May 31 2013 // A northern Michigan insurance broker accused of fleecing elderly clients out of more than $1 million has been sentenced to 5 years in federal prison. Prosecutors say William Lowder persuaded clients to change their...
Greenberg Should Face Trial as ‘Deterrent,’ Says New York State
May 29 2013 // Hank Greenberg should still face trial over sham transactions he is accused of orchestrating while he was head of American International Group, even though New York has dropped most of its claims against him, a lawyer for...
North Carolina’s Hagan Amends Senate Farm Bill to Address Crop Fraud
May 29 2013 // A measure championed by U.S. Sen. Kay Hagan adds $5 million in new funding to the 2013 farm bill to help root out crop insurance fraud. The Senate approved Hagan’s amendment last week by a vote of 94-0. The money...
Greenberg Seeks Dismissal of Spitzer Reinsurance Lawsuit
May 28 2013 // New York’s highest court will hear arguments on Tuesday on whether to dismiss a lawsuit accusing Hank Greenberg of orchestrating sham transactions when he was head of insurance company American International Group...
2 Sentenced for Insurance Fraud in Ohio
May 24 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced that two insurance fraud investigations have led to criminal convictions in the Columbus and Cleveland areas. The cases were related to...
Ex-Alaska Worker Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 23 2013 // A former Alaska state employee and his supposed masseuse are accused of worker’s compensation fraud. Scott A. Groom and Laurayne K. Fischer are charged with 93 counts including perjury, theft and falsification of...
North Carolina Man Charged with Insurance Fraud
May 23 2013 // North Carolina authorities have accused a Lincoln County man of filing a fake report of a stolen motorcycle and trailer to get money from an insurance company. The Charlotte Observer reported that 38-year-old William...
Connecticut Court Rules That Lawyers Can’t Be Sued for Fraud
May 21 2013 // The state Supreme Court has ruled in an ex-NFL player’s case that Connecticut lawyers can’t be sued for fraud for their conduct in court cases because of a centuries-old legal doctrine. The court’s 5-1...
Mom, Daughter Charged With Arson, Insurance Fraud in Connecticut
May 21 2013 // A mother and daughter have been charged with setting a fire that heavily damaged the older woman’s home in Stratford, Conn. Police tell the Connecticut Post they became suspicious after finding valuables and all the...
Allstate Sues 6 Physicians, Medical Corporations in New York
May 20 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company is seeking to recover $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations in its third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013. Since 2003, Allstate has filed 47 fraud lawsuits...
South Carolina Store Owner Found Guilty of Insurance Fraud
May 20 2013 // A South Carolina jury has found a Hartsville store owner guilty of faking an assault and setting fire to her own store to get insurance money. The Morning News of Florence reported a judge sentenced 47-year-old Claudette...
Former Louisiana Insurance Agent Gets 5 Years in Fraud Case
May 20 2013 // A 35-year-old Denham Springs, La., man has been sentenced in Baton Rouge federal court to nearly five years in prison and ordered to pay two life insurance companies more than $1.4 million for frauds he committed against...
Criminal Investigation Launched into Texas Fertilizer Explosion
May 20 2013 // Texas law enforcement officials said on May 10 that they are beginning a criminal investigation into the fertilizer plant fire and explosion that occurred on April 17 in West, Texas. Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS)...
State Farm Appeals Katrina Fraud Ruling in Mississippi
May 20 2013 // State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. is asking a judge to void a jury’s finding that the company defrauded the government in a case involving a policyholder claim after Hurricane Katrina. The verdict came in April in a...
Five Arrested In California Million-Dollar Mobile Phone Insurance Scam
May 17 2013 // Five Northern California residents were arrested by California Department of Insurance fraud investigators and booked into the Sacramento County jail and charged with multiple felony counts related to alleged insurance...
Former Texas Agent Convicted in Insurance Fraud Scam
May 15 2013 // A former Texas insurance agent has been convicted of a first-degree felony for diverting more than $150,000 in premium payments for personal use, the Texas Department of Insurance reported. The DOI said Leslie Ray Collins...
