Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Workers Comp Fraud Sweep Nets 8 in N.Y.
Dec 21 2007 // The New York State Insurance Fund said a fraud sweep in Nassau County resulted in the arrests of eight people who allegedly took a combined $938,000 in fraudulent workers compensation benefits. The arrests came after a...
Kentucky Man Faces Insurance Fraud Charges
Dec 18 2007 // Kentucky officials indicted a Louisville man on a felony count of insurance fraud after allegedly submitting an altered receipt for nearly $4,000 to State Farm Fire and Casualty Co. Robert L. Whiteside, 39, presented a...
Survey Shows Phishing Attacks in 2007 Caused $3B in Damages
Dec 18 2007 // Phishing attacks in the United States soared in 2007 as $3.2 billion was lost to these attacks, according to a recent survey. The survey found that 3.6 million adults lost money in phishing attacks in the 12 months ending...
RLI Marine Teams Up with National Equipment Register to Offer Theft Waiver
Dec 18 2007 // Peoria, Ill.-based RLI Marine announced today that it has entered into an agreement with National Equipment Register (NER) to help RLI clients reduce the expense associated with construction equipment theft. RLI...
Auto Thefts in Ohio Drop by Nearly 10 Percent
Dec 17 2007 // The insurance industry says tracking devices and other measures to foil car thieves are working in Ohio, based on FBI data showing a nearly double-digit decline in auto thefts. A new report from the Ohio Insurance...
Insurance Fraud Charges Dropped Against Former La. Cop
Dec 17 2007 // Charges against a former Shreveport, La., police officer were dropped in Caddo District Court and his wife pleaded guilty to a lesser offense, the prosecutor and the couple’s attorney said. Ronald Small, who resigned...
California Store Director Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 14 2007 // Roseville, Calif., Bel Air Market Store Director Nichole Leddy and Assistant Store Director Amy Looper have been sentenced each to one count of workers’ compensation insurance fraud in Placer County, Calif., Superior...
Ky. Officials Issue Warrant in Insurance Fraud Case
Dec 12 2007 // A bench warrant has been issued for a Bowling Green, Ky., man who failed to appear for arraignment on fraud charges pursued by the Kentucky Office of Insurance. Jaime Salazar, 31, of 1342 Bluelake Way, was indicted on one...
Kentucky Woman Charged with Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 12 2007 // Kentucky Insurance officials charged a Shelbyville woman with insurance fraud as a result of collecting more than $3,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Tanya Garitty, 38, told her employer she was unable to work...
Ark. Woman Settles with Insurer in Agent Theft Case
Dec 12 2007 // A settlement in the amount of $435,298.25 has been reached between Reba Irons of Fort Smith, Ark., and Allianz Life Insurance Company of North America in a case involving John Phillip Middleton, an insurance agent who sold...
N.H. Man Sentenced for Workers’ Compensation Theft
Dec 11 2007 // A 52-year-old New Hampshire man has pleaded guilty to theft in a workers’ compensation case. Attorney General Kelly Ayotte says Philip Rice of Derry was sentenced to serve six months in jail with the sentence...
Liberty Mutual Agency Markets’ Parker Named Top Fraud Investigator
Dec 11 2007 // Liberty Mutual Agency Markets recently announced that senior special investigator Barbara Parker was honored by the National Society of Professional Insurance Investigators (NSPII) with the 2007 F. Lee Brininger Award,...
Former La. State Agency Employee Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Dec 11 2007 // A former assistant manager of the New Iberia field office of the Louisiana Department of Motor Vehicles pled guilty to allegations of federal disaster relief fraud, according to the Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud...
California State Fund Receives $153,000 in Fraud Case
Dec 10 2007 // A San Diego businessman was ordered to pay $153,779 in restitution to California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund as part of his conviction on workers’ compensation fraud. Marco Rangel pleaded guilty to one...
Mass. Police Officer Indicted for Insurance Fraud
Dec 7 2007 // A grand jury has indicted a Springfield, Mass. police officer in connection with insurance fraud and larceny. Prosecutors say Anthony Trabal was charged with motor vehicle fraud and two counts of attempted larceny for...
Three Accused of Criminal Activity in La. While Acting as Bail Bond Agents
Dec 6 2007 // Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Investigators and Jefferson Parish Sheriff’s Deputies charged three Jefferson Parish men with aggravated burglary, aggravated false imprisonment, impersonating a police...
La. Man Convicted of Insurance Fraud Related to Staged Auto Crashes
Dec 5 2007 // A Ville Platte, La., man recently was convicted on charges of insurance fraud and theft related to alleged staged traffic accidents. On Nov. 29, 2007, a six person jury in the 15th Judicial District Court of Lafayette...
Insurance Related Fraud Results in Arrest and Arraignment for 2 in W. Va.
Dec 4 2007 // West Virginia Insurance Commission officials arrested two Logan County women last week for alleged computer fraud and forgery. Lisa K. Hall, 26, of Man, and Cynthia B. Hall, age unknown, of Mitchell Heights, were charged...
Former Texas Assistant AG to Fight Fraud in Private Law Firm
Dec 4 2007 // Patrick O’Connell, former chief of the Texas Attorney General’s Civil Medicaid Fraud Section, has joined Dallas-based Baron & Budd, P.C., as special counsel in the firm’s newly established Austin...
New Mexico Woman Sentenced for Fraud
Dec 4 2007 // 50-year-old Valerie Potter, also known as Valerie Kovach of Rio Rancho, N.M., has been sentenced by Albuquerque District Judge Kenneth Martinez to five years probation on Medicaid fraud and insurance fraud charges. The...
