Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
$458M Big Dig Settlement Reached; Criminal Charges Dropped
Jan 23 2008 // The main management consultant and contractor on Boston’s $15 billion Central Artery/Tunnel Project (Big Dig) has agreed to pay more than $407 million to resolve civil and criminal liabilities in connection with the...
Two Ex-police Officers in La. Acquitted of Insurance Fraud Charges
Jan 22 2008 // Two former Monroe, La., police officers have been acquitted in federal court on allegations they committed insurance fraud. A 12-person jury returned the verdicts in the case against Brandon Brooks and former police union...
Ex-N.M. Deputy Insurance Superintendent on Trial for Fraud
Jan 22 2008 // The fraud and corruption trial of former state Deputy Insurance Superintendent Joe Ruiz, who is accused of trying to coerce an insurance company to donate money to his favorite charity rather than pay state fines, will...
Teacher, Gypsy, Even an Insurance Agent Make Fraud Hall of Shame List
Jan 22 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...
Kan. Firefighter, Wife Charged with Arson, Insurance Fraud
Jan 18 2008 // A Kansas firefighter and his wife are charged with multiple felonies in an alleged insurance fraud-arson scheme. Shawnee Heights Fire District firefighter Laramie McPherson and his wife Christine McPherson are accused of...
Iowa Landlord Convicted of Fraud Ordered to Pay $1.9 Million in Damages
Jan 17 2008 // A Cedar Rapids, Iowa landlord was convicted this week of receiving insurance payments based on false claims, and the federal jury ordered him to pay $1.9 million in damages. Robert Miell, 53, was found guilty of insurance...
Kentucky Woman Charged with Insurance Fraud
Jan 17 2008 // An Irvine, Ky., woman is facing six felony counts of insurance fraud after allegedly filing false statements related to her long-term disability benefits. Treva Caton, 60, began receiving disability benefits in 1984...
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...
