Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Rita Fraud
Feb 22 2008 // A Beaumont, Texas man pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FEMA in seeking disaster relief after Hurricane Rita. Wilyum Henderson, 50, entered the plea in federal court in Beaumont. The U.S. Attorney’s...
West Virginia: Kanawha County Man Pleads Guilty To Insurance Fraud
Feb 21 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., man, who was indicted on a felony count of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim to an insurance company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud, according...
N.M. Tribe Sues Regulator Over Leavitt’s Corp. Status Reinstatement
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
W. Va.: Putnam County Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Feb 20 2008 // A Putnam County, W. Va. man pleaded guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud for his involvement in disposing of his wife’s minivan by pushing it over a hill on Poplar Fork Road in January of 2007 according to...
AXA Art Offers Security Checks after Swiss Theft
Feb 19 2008 // AXA Art, the specialty branch of France’s AXA Group that offers coverage for art works, has issued a bulletin “offering to conduct security protocol assessments of museums in its key markets. The goal is to...
W. Va. Insurance Commissioner Says Employer Owes the State Money
Feb 15 2008 // W. Va. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline announced that a West Hamlin man who was indicted on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, pleaded guilty to the charges in Kanawha County Circuit...
N.Y. Junkyard Owner Charged in Scheme to Insure Illegal Aliens
Feb 14 2008 // A N.Y. junkyard owner has been charged with masterminding a scheme to sell high-mileage vehicles to illegal aliens and then insure the vehicles through his own garage policy. Officials said 61-year-old William Hrazanek of...
N.D. Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Theft
Feb 11 2008 // A Fargo, N.D. insurance agent has pleaded guilty to 38 felony charges as part of a plea agreement recommending that he serve a total of two years in prison. Sixty-one-year-old David Skjerven (SHUR’-ven) also would...
State Auto Offers Enhancements to ID Theft Coverage Program
Feb 11 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. recently announced that it is now offering a comprehensive “Life Stages” identity management program providing free access to proactive and resolution services for...
Hall of Shame Scams Shocking
Feb 10 2008 // The Coalition reports that nearly one of four Americans say it’s ok to defraud insurers. Some 8 percent say it’s “quite acceptable” to bilk insurers, while 16 percent say it’s “somewhat...
3-day Dragnet in Florida Nets 47
Feb 10 2008 // Officials arrested 47 Floridians so far in a statewide, three-day operation, targeting 84 individuals for various insurance fraud charges, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. The arrests, which took...
Teacher, Gypsy, Even an Insurance Agent Make Fraud Hall of Shame List
Feb 10 2008 // A glass-eating gypsy, a teacher who faked terminal cancer, and an insurance agent who killed homeless clients are among the top insurance swindlers of 2007. These convicted thieves were inducted into the Insurance Fraud...
Fighting Insurance Crime Does Pay
Feb 10 2008 // Ronald Evano took great pains to bilk insurers. Literally. The self-described gypsy shook down insurers, restaurants, bars and other businesses along the East Coast by swallowing broken glass and claiming the shards were...
Counselor Sentenced for Perjury in Texas Work Comp Fraud Case
Feb 8 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a licensed professional counselor has pleaded guilty to charges of perjury in a workers’ compensation fraud-related case in a Travis County, Texas, district court. John...
Ga. Man Arrested for Insurance Fraud
Feb 6 2008 // An Augusta, Ga., man is charged with insurance fraud for allegedly converting to his own use money paid to him by an elderly client, according to Insurance Commissioner John W. Oxendine. Carl Barcus, 58, arrested on Jan....
Sequoia Offers Identity Theft Coverage
Feb 6 2008 // Sequoia Insurance Co., based in Monterey, Calif., announces the release of restoration coverage for identity theft. For a minimal additional cost, identity theft recovery coverage can be added to Sequoia’s...
5 West Virginians Indicted in Multiple Insurance Fraud Charges
Feb 4 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., grand jury indicted five individuals in multiple cases involving insurance fraud last week, according to the state’s Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline,. Tina Marie Browning, 40, of...
Judge Weighs Dropping Financial Firms from Enron Lawsuit
Feb 4 2008 // A federal judge in Houston said Friday she will evaluate whether three high profile financial institutions being sued for $40 billion in connection with Enron Corp.’s collapse should be dropped from litigation after...
TDI December Enforcements Result in Nearly $1.6M in Fines, Restitution
Jan 31 2008 // Enforcement actions taken by the Texas Department of Insurance December 2007 resulted in eight license revocations, four license denials, and fines and restitution totaling $1,591,264, the department reported. An order...
Former Wash. Mayor, Ex-state Trooper Convicted of Fraud
Jan 31 2008 // A former Westport, Wash., mayor and ex-state trooper has been convicted of involvement in a scheme to commit insurance fraud, a case involving a nonexistent 1949 Chevrolet Woody and a dead State Patrol sergeant. Douglas...
