Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Contractor Sends Letters to Wis. Residents at Risk for Identity Theft
Jan 16 2008 // Wisconsin residents at risk for identity theft have been mailed letters explaining how they can sign up for free credit monitoring and receive special insurance. State contractor EDS Corporation of Texas sent some of the...
New York Says Insurance Fraud Arrests Are Up
Jan 16 2008 // Investigations by New York’s insurance frauds bureau led to over 700 arrests last year, a 17 percent increase from 2006, according to an annual report released today by the state insurance department. The bureau,...
N.Y. Insurance Agency’s Computer Hacked to Gain Forged Insurance Docs
Jan 14 2008 // Police in New York have arrested a computer consultant who is charged with fraudulently printing an insurance certificate from an agency’s computer and using the document for his part-time snowplowing...
FBI Study: Violent, Property Crime Rates Decline
Jan 13 2008 // Crime rates dropped for the first time in two years, according to a newly released report of the most recent data collected by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Nationwide, violent crime fell 1.8 percent and property...
Idaho Insurance Department Upset at Toyota, Claims Ads Promote Fraud
Jan 13 2008 // The Idaho Department of Insurance (DOI) has joined forces with the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a Washington group that includes insurers, law enforcement officials and consumer groups, in expressing concern over...
Aiming to Improve Alaska
Jan 13 2008 // A small state like Alaska sometimes has trouble convincing the property/casualty insurance industry of creating opportunities in its state. So Alaska Director of Insurance Linda Hall relies on her experiences as a former...
19 Surrender in Ongoing Florida Drivers License Scam Investigation
Jan 11 2008 // Florida officials arrested 19 additional Floridians accused of fraudulently obtaining Florida commercial driver licenses (CDLs). Those arrested this week surrendered, some calling in response to initial arrests on Jan. 4....
Texas AG: Health Services Provider Exposed Customers to ID Theft
Jan 11 2008 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed court documents alleging Select Physical Therapy Texas Limited Partnership and its parent company, Select Medical Corporation, for systematically exposing their customers to...
Maryland Anti-Fraud Efforts Net $450K in Restitution
Jan 11 2008 // Nineteen insurance fraud cases were adjudicated in Maryland in the last three months of 2007, resulting in nearly $450,000 in restitution ordered paid, the state’s Insurance Administration said. The prosecutions were...
Mass. Horse Farm Charged with Workers’ Comp Premium Fraud
Jan 10 2008 // Update: On Nov. 3, 2008, Christopher Mersereau and his corporation, Stoneymeade Farm LLC, located in Concord, Mass., entered into an agreement with the office of Attorney General Martha Coakley resolving charges originally...
Personal Data at Risk after Utah Workers’ Comp Fund Laptop Stolen
Jan 8 2008 // Worker’s Compensation Fund, one of Utah’s largest insurance companies, is working to recover a laptop stolen from an auditor’s car that held personal data records for some 2,800 people. The laptop was...
N.C. Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud
Jan 8 2008 // West Virginia officials announced that a Raleigh County woman pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits exceeding $3,800.00. On May 15, 2007, a Raleigh County Grand Jury indicted Angel...
Kentucky Insurance Agent Arrested on Fraud Charges
Jan 8 2008 // The Kentucky Office of Insurance Fraud Division arrested a Somerset, Ky., insurance agent last month following an indictment on 11 felony counts of insurance fraud and four felony counts of possession of a forged...
Texas Mutual Fraud Investigators Earn ACFE Certification
Jan 8 2008 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported it recovered more than $1 million in workers’ compensation fraud last year. The company also announced that Texas Mutual investigators Victoria Quintana and William Muhr earned...
Virginia Governor Seeks ID Theft Protection, Credit Freeze Measure
Jan 7 2008 // Virginia Gov. Timothy M. Kaine said last week that he will ask the General Assembly to pass legislation guarding against identity theft and credit fraud. Kaine made the announcement at the Virginia headquarters of the...
Insurance Application and Drivers License Fraud Lead to Arrests in Fla.
Jan 7 2008 // Florida officials arrested seven Floridians accused of posing a risk to Florida’s and the nation’s security by fraudulently obtaining Florida Commercial Driver Licenses. The investigation is ongoing and...
Insurance Fraud Expert from La. AG’s Office Picked for Inspector General
Jan 7 2008 // Louisiana’s Gov.-elect Bobby Jindal picked a lawyer in the state attorney general’s office as Louisiana’s new inspector general, a position intended to investigate executive branch fraud and...
Court Reduces Damages Award for Virginia Identity Theft Victim
Jan 3 2008 // A federal appeals court has reduced the damages awarded to a Virginia woman in an identity-theft suit against Equifax Information Services. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 4th Circuit last Thursday reduced the mental...
Idaho Upset over Toyota Ads
Jan 3 2008 // The Idaho Department of Insurance (DOI) has joined forces with the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a Washington group that includes insurers, law enforcement officials and consumer groups, in expressing concern over...
NYC Police Nab 2 for Selling Stolen Equipment to Business Owners
Dec 31 2007 // The New York City Department of Investigation says two men hawking stolen fire extinguishers have been arrested on charges of grand larceny and reckless endangerment. Sergey Vishnev and Maxin Ilim, both of Brooklyn,...
