Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Tim Cloney Hired as Special Investigations Unit Manager at Investigation Solutions, Inc.
Mar 6 2013 // San Diego, CA, 03/06/13 – Investigation Solutions, Inc. (ISI) announces the addition of veteran fraud fighter Tim Cloney to its management staff. Cloney joins ISI as the manager of the Workers’ Compensation...
BrickStreet Auditor, 4 Others Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 1 2013 // A U.S. attorney has charged five men including an insurance company auditor with engaging in a fraudulent scheme that included bribery and the under-reporting of payroll by certain employers and cost West Virginia’s...
Virginia Police: 383 Arrests Made for Insurance Fraud, Related Offenses in 2012
Feb 28 2013 // The Virginia State Police Insurance Fraud Program announced it is continuing to make inroads in the fight against the crime of insurance fraud as indicated by the statistics in the just released 2012 annual report. In...
Allstate Slaps 2 N.Y. Medical Corporations With $1.7M Fraud Lawsuit
Feb 28 2013 // Allstate Insurance Company said it is seeking to recover $1.7 million against New York area defendants in its second insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013. Since 2003, Allstate has filed 46 fraud lawsuits in New York State...
Northern California Business Owner Sentenced For Premium Fraud
Feb 27 2013 // A Northern California business owner has been sentenced for workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud and pay over $2 million in restitution to insurers, the California Department of Insurance announced on...
Supreme Court Limits When SEC Can Levy Fraud Penalties
Feb 27 2013 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday limited the authority of the federal government’s top securities regulator to seek civil penalties over conduct that occurred more than five years before investigators took...
Texas Mutual: Woman Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Feb 25 2013 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced that Barbara A. Douglas of Denton pleaded no contest to felony workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. Douglas, her father, Howard T. Douglas, III, M.D., of Hurst and their...
Former Utah Agent Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Feb 25 2013 // Former insurance agent Mitch Kelling has pled guilty to insurance fraud. Kelling plead guilty to felony charges in Utah Seventh District Court on Jan. 29. Kelling had been operating under the name “Kelling...
Ohio Attorney Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 25 2013 // An Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) investigation found a Medina attorney conspired to commit fraud by employing an injured worker she was representing in a workers’ compensation case. Natalie Grubb...
Former Wisconsin Insurance Executive Sentenced to 5 Years for Fraud
Feb 25 2013 // A former Wausau, Wis., insurance agency executive has been sentenced to five years in prison for a fraud scheme, the Associated Press reported. The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Wisconsin said...
Ohio Took Enforcement Actions Against 167 Agents in 2012
Feb 22 2013 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor announced the department’s top fraud and enforcement cases for 2012. During the calendar year, the department processed 7,274 allegations of...
National Insurance Crime Bureau: Sandy-Damaged Vehicles Surpass 250K Mark
Feb 21 2013 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) today announced revised estimates for the number of vehicles damaged as a result of Superstorm Sandy. The current estimate of vehicles damaged as a result of Sandy is now set at...
St. Louis County Police Commend Missouri Insurance Fraud Investigator
Feb 21 2013 // The St. Louis County Board of Police Commissioners has awarded a commendation to an investigator at the Missouri Department of Insurance for his efforts in uncovering a widespread insurance fraud operation against...
Florida Senate Leader to Insurers: Where Are Savings from PIP Reforms?
Feb 21 2013 // Key Florida lawmakers are running out of patience with the state’s fraud-plagued no-fault motor vehicle insurance system that has cost policyholders hundred millions of dollars. Senate President Don Gaetz ,...
Lion Insurance Partners With Command Investigations to Offer Anti-Fraud Services
Feb 20 2013 // Lion Insurance has formed an exclusive business partnership with Command Investigations, LLC as their national provider for all special investigative unit (SIU) and anti-fraud services. As part of the SIU and anti-fraud...
Survey: Most Texas Voters Support Licensing Roofers
Feb 20 2013 // A recent survey shows that most registered Texas voters support the licensing of roofers in the state. According to the survey by the Insurance Council of Texas (ICT), when asked if roofing contractors should be licensed...
Su Alleges Workers’ Comp Fraud Against California Restaurant
Feb 19 2013 // The owners of a restaurant in San Marcos, Calif. have been charged with felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and forgery following a referral by the California Labor Commissioner Julie A. Su’s criminal...
Where to Find the Best Possible Cyber Coverage
Feb 19 2013 // There are many cyber insurance products available for purchase, and each is somewhat unique. Some products are more comprehensive than others. Some cyber insurance products are combined with insurance policies of another...
Horsemeat Blame Game Ricochets across Europe
Feb 18 2013 // Accusations, denials and threats to sue reverberated around Europe on Friday as meat traders, food processors, retailers and governments all rejected blame for horsemeat found in ever more beef dishes across the...
North Carolina Agent, Farmer Sentenced for Crop Insurance Fraud
Feb 18 2013 // Two North Carolina men have been sentenced for their roles in a massive crop insurance fraud. A federal judge last Wednesday sentenced insurance agent William Larry Rogers to 9 years in prison for conspiring to make false...
