Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Finds Fraud at 6 Postal Contractors
Mar 25 2011 // Six postal contractors in Ohio have been sanctioned for workers’ compensation fraud, state regulators say. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) said a task force created by its Special Investigations...
Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau Receives Nearly $2M from Jailed Doctor
Mar 24 2011 // Ohio workers’ compensation system regulators have received nearly $2 million from an Akron area anesthesiologist who was convicted in 2006 on 56 criminal counts of health care and insurance fraud. Dr. Jorge Martinez...
Louisiana Agent Fined $100K for Alleged Misappropriation of Premiums
Mar 23 2011 // A Deville, La., insurance agent has been accused of attempting to defraud insurers by submitting false business and receiving more than $127,000 in unearned commissions. Robert Lee Daniel III, 29, was served on March 18 by...
New York Ex-Lawmaker Gets Prison in Insurance Fraud Case
Mar 23 2011 // A former New York lawmaker will spend at least four years in prison following his conviction in a Hamptons insurance fraud case. George Guldi was sentenced in Suffolk County Court in Riverhead to three to nine years for...
Florida Lawmakers Take Two-Pronged Approach to Insurance Reform
Mar 23 2011 // Tort reform and fraud have become the two big targets as Florida lawmakers are finally gearing up to tackle the state’s no-fault auto insurance law. Taking a divide and conquer approach, the House Insurance and...
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Says Fraud Referrals Are Up
Mar 21 2011 // The North Dakota Insurance Department says fraud referrals have been doubling since 2008. The Jamestown Sun reports that the 94 referrals in 2010 totaled more than $1 million in suspicious claims. North Dakota Insurance...
Former New York Lawmaker Faces Prison for Insurance Fraud
Mar 21 2011 // A former Long Island lawmaker faces up to 15 years in prison when he is sentenced today in a Hamptons fraud case. George Guldi was convicted last month of grand larceny and insurance fraud involving the reconstruction of...
Florida Interests Unite to Battle PIP Fraud
Mar 21 2011 // Florida insurers, government agencies and consumer advocate groups have established a statewide alliance to push for legislative reforms aimed at cracking-down on staged-accidents that the industry says are costing Florida...
Declarations
Mar 21 2011 // Many Insurers, Inadequate Prices “The urgings of Wall Street, pressures from the agency force and brokers, or simply a refusal by a testosterone-driven CEO to accept shrinking volumes has led too many insurers to...
Ohio Doctor’s Office Raided in Crackdown on Drug Abuse in Comp System
Mar 18 2011 // As part of an investigation into prescription drug abuse in the state, Ohio law enforcement officials and workers’ compensation bureau investigators have conducted a raid on the offices of a doctor in the...
Former Ohio Insurance Agent Sentenced for Role in Fraud Scheme
Mar 18 2011 // A former Hicksville, Ohio, insurance agent has been sentenced to three years’ probation for his role in an auto insurance fraud scheme, state insurance regulators announced. Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of...
New York Fraud Investigators Arrested 668 People Last Year
Mar 17 2011 // New York investigators arrested 668 people accused of insurance fraud last year, including a Brooklyn woman arrested after a fist fight, a surgeon who made $3.5 million by billing for working more than 24 hours a day, and...
No-Fault Claims Top New York Insurance Fraud List
Mar 15 2011 // Almost nine in 10 suspected health care fraud cases in New York last year came from no-fault auto injury claims, a cottage industry so rife with abuse that the state Insurance Department wants to tighten...
Ohio Reveals Top Insurance Fraud, Enforcements for 2010
Mar 11 2011 // Ohio Lieutenant Governor and Department of Insurance Director Mary Taylor has announced the agency’s top insurance fraud and enforcement cases of 2010.The DOI opened more than 160 consumer insurance fraud cases last...
Florida House Leader Wants Separate Civil, Criminal Supreme Courts
Mar 9 2011 // Florida House Speaker Dean Cannon this week proposed creating a second Florida Supreme Court so that one set of justices could specialize on criminal appeals and the other on civil cases. The Winter Park Republican said a...
Has Time Come to Cap Whistleblower Awards?
Mar 8 2011 // Corporate whistleblowers are getting bigger and bigger payouts for reporting fraud, sparking a fresh debate about whether the rewards are justified. Whistleblowers have collected billions of dollars since the late 1980s by...
Florida Briefs
Mar 7 2011 // PIP Fraud Insurance companies are taking to the Internet to combat auto insurance fraud in Florida. The Property Casualty Insurers Association of American has launched www.InsuranceFraudUncovered.com, a Web site designed...
Fraud Tax
Mar 7 2011 // It’s not very often that private insurers, state regulators, lawmakers and consumer groups are all on the same page on an insurance issue in Florida—or any state, for that matter. But this miracle is taking place...
Florida Announces 17 Arrests in Largest-ever PIP Bust
Mar 3 2011 // Florida’s “Operation Deep Horizon” has netted 17 arrests — including a clinic owner, doctors, clinic employees and staged recruiters — in the state’s largest-ever auto personal injury protection...
Former Rhode Island Town Councilman Admits Taking Bribes
Mar 3 2011 // A former North Providence town councilman has pleaded guilty to corruption charges, admitting he solicited tens of thousands of dollars in bribes in exchange for votes to approve zoning changes as well as his role in an...
