Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Florida Targets Check Cashing Fraud
Sep 10 2012 // Just months after Florida lawmakers enacted a law targeting the role of check cashing companies in the construction industry, state officials announced a string of arrests netting more than $140 million in fraudulent...
Criminal Investigation Launched Over Hurricane Ike Claim
Sep 7 2012 // Texas homeowner Jim Warner has been locked in a legal battle with State Farm over denial of insurance claims for the damages to his home from Hurricane Ike. That battle was just upgraded to a category five by the Travis...
Alaska Family Charged With Insurance Fraud
Sep 7 2012 // Three members of a North Pole family have been charged with felony insurance fraud connected to the crash of a pickup. A complaint filed by state insurance investigator Alex Romero says 26-year-old Marlon A. Conklin and...
Former N.Y. Insurance Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing $648K
Sep 5 2012 // New York authorities announced last week that a Long Island, N.Y., man has been arrested and charged with multiple felonies after allegedly stealing more than $648,000 in premiums from a client and spending the money on...
N.C. Authorities Announce Arrests for Alleged Insurance Fraud Schemes
Aug 31 2012 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin this week announced the arrest of Shacoria Vontravia Crawford, 24, of Charlotte, N.C. She is charged with one count each of insurance fraud, conspiracy to commit...
Tennessee Opens New Unit to Investigate Identity Theft Crimes
Aug 30 2012 // Tennessee’s safety department is creating a new unit to investigate identity theft crimes that local law enforcement agencies don’t have the resources to target. Commissioner of Safety and Homeland Security...
Jones Annual Report Details Consumer Protection
Aug 28 2012 // The California Department of Insurance has issued California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones’ annual report for 2011 that details CDI’s progress on its “ambitious consumer and business protection...
Chubb Launches Insurance Product for Health Care Fraud, Data Breaches
Aug 28 2012 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Cos. has introduced insurance coverage to help small to mid-size health care organizations manage some of their biggest exposures. ForeFront Portfolio 3.0 for Health Care Organizations offers...
Philippine Police Arrest 357 Foreigners for Online Fraud
Aug 24 2012 // Philippine police say they have rounded up 357 foreigners accused of duping Taiwanese and Chinese citizens in an online scam. National police investigation chief Samuel Pagdilao said the mostly Chinese and Taiwanese...
South Carolina Man Admits to Sawing Off Man’s Hand for Insurance Money
Aug 23 2012 // A South Carolina man pleaded guilty this week to a federal fraud charge, acknowledging his role in an insurance scheme that cost a mentally disabled man his left hand. Gerald B. Hardin of Cayce told U.S. District Judge...
Mississippi Woman Alleged to Be Habitual ‘Slip and Fall’ Claimant
Aug 21 2012 // A Southaven, Mississippi woman has been arrested for fraud and charged as a habitual offender. Authorities accuse her of faking a fall at the Ramada Inn in Horn Lake to collect insurance money. The Mississippi attorney...
Iowa Brokerage Founder Pleads Not Guilty to Fraud
Aug 20 2012 // The founder of an Iowa-based brokerage pleaded not guilty on Aug. 17 to fraud charges in a suspected $200 million embezzlement scheme that drove his firm to bankruptcy and left thousands of customers without their...
Mississippi Man Charged with Oil Spill Claims Fraud
Aug 20 2012 // A Columbia, Mississippi man is under federal indictment for allegedly filing $10,000 worth of false claims for Deepwater Horizon oil spill relief funding. The Clarion-Ledger reported that Jermaine Ball has been charged...
Rhode Island Sees Rash of Scrap Metal Thefts
Aug 16 2012 // First thieves swiped manhole covers from a new subdivision. Then officials discovered that bronze plaques honoring work done during the Great Depression had been pried from sidewalks at Providence’s largest park....
Thieves Stealing 3rd Row Seats From Dallas SUVs
Aug 16 2012 // Police in a wealthy Texas enclave are reporting a rash of SUV break-ins in which thieves are stealing third-row seats. University Park police urge SUV owners to park in their garages and lock the seats down with...
N.Y. Businessman Charged With $10M Insurance Fraud Scheme
Aug 14 2012 // A businessman who owned fleets of commercial vehicles in New York is accused of defrauding insurers of at least $10 million. The defendant, Scott Sanders, is charged with submitting fraudulent insurance applications to get...
Former Conn. Doc Sentenced for Illegal Prescriptions, Insurance Fraud
Aug 10 2012 // A former Plainville, Conn., doctor has been sentenced to four months in prison for dealing prescription drugs. Prosecutors say Richard Luzietti was charged after an investigation into about 100 prescriptions that he wrote...
Son of N.Y. Man Who Vanished at Beach Is Charged With Insurance Fraud
Aug 8 2012 // A man who reported his father missing at a New York beach was charged Monday with insurance fraud and filing a false report several days after his father turned up alive in South Carolina, following a massive air and water...
Montana Agent Pleads Guilty to Stealing Premiums
Aug 6 2012 // An insurance agent from Butte, Mont., who pleaded guilty to stealing more than $7,200 of his client’s premiums has been given a three-year deferred sentence and ordered to pay restitution. State Insurance...
Copper Theft on Rise in Alabama
Aug 6 2012 // Copper thefts are becoming a growing problem for Alabama farmers. Southeast Alabama farmer Trey Martin said someone stole the copper wiring from his irrigation system. The copper wire was worth $50, but the damages to the...
