Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Violent and property crime down in Northeast, reports FBI
Jun 18 2007 // Violent crime increased 1.3 percent in 2006 when compared with data from 2005. However, property crime decreased 2.9 percent for the same time period, according to the FBI. Violent crime was up, except in the Northeast....
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Jun 18 2007 // Calif. commissioner seeks additional workers’ comp reforms California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner said even after the workers’ compensation reforms of 2005, there still are systemic and structural...
Staged Accidents Arrests Net 27 in Miami
Jun 15 2007 // Florida officials arrested 27 people in an ongoing investigation dubbed “Operation TGIF” because of staged accidents the group perpetrated on Fridays. The ‘staged accident’ ring billed auto insurers...
FBI Breaks Up Large East Coast Auto Theft Ring
Jun 14 2007 // The FBI said it has broken up an East Coast auto theft ring that retagged and sold hundreds of stolen vehicles. The ring had been operating since 1999, stealing vehicles and creating phony certificates of title to match...
Oak Grove, La., Woman Sentenced in Crop Fraud Case
Jun 14 2007 // A northeast Louisiana woman has been sentenced to 16 months in jail and ordered to pay more than $300,000 in restitution after being convicted of crop insurance fraud. Wendy Gail Hayman, 31, of Oak Grove, was sentenced by...
W. Va. Woman Jailed for Committing Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 13 2007 // An Upshur County woman was sentenced to serve time in a West Virgina correctional facility after pleading guilty to worker’s compensation insurance fraud. Stacie L. McLean, age 34 of Buckhannon, W. Va., pleaded...
Bush Administration, SEC at Odds over Scheme Liability in Enron Case
Jun 13 2007 // The Bush administration rejected a Securities and Exchange Commission recommendation in a key Supreme Court case and did not support shareholders suing Wall Street banks for damages over Enron’s collapse. The Justice...
S.C. Passes Workers’ Comp Anti-Fraud, Injury Reporting Bill
Jun 12 2007 // Employers who lie about what their workers do to save money on insurance premiums would face fines and prison time under an agreement South Carolina legislators reached to overhaul the state’s workers’...
N.Y. State, Towns Plan Insurance Fraud Prevention Day for June 27
Jun 12 2007 // New York Governor Eliot Spitzer, New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg along with more than 30 mayors and town supervisors throughout the state have proclaimed June 27 as Insurance Fraud Prevention Day in support of the...
La. State Police Arrest 7 for Various Insurance Fraud Schemes
Jun 12 2007 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit announced the recent arrests of seven individuals, including one insurance agent, on insurance fraud and theft warrants. The arrests continue as the Insurance...
Calif. Fraud Task Force Holds Innagural Meeting
Jun 11 2007 // California’s Advisory Task Force on Insurance Fraud held its first meeting last week, with the goal of creating innovative methods to combat insurance fraud and forwarding an aggressive anti-fraud campaign introduced...
La. State Police Charge 2 with Insurance Fraud in Big Rig Wreck
Jun 8 2007 // Two people are accused of intentionally crashing the tractor portion of a tractor-trailer rig as part of an insurance scam in Louisiana. The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit arrested Christopher...
Former La. Agent Arrested for Alleged Felony Theft, Fined $10K
Jun 8 2007 // A former Shreveport, La., insurance agent has been arrested, issued a cease and desist order and served with a $10,000 fine notice for alleged felony theft and filing false public documents, the Louisiana Department of...
Police Jail Witness in Arson, Fraud Case Against Former Mich. Mayor
Jun 7 2007 // Police arrested a key witness in the case involving a former Saginaw, Mich. mayor charged with arson and insurance fraud in the burning of her 1986 Mercedes-Benz. Jerry W. Wilkins was arrested June 1st at a restaurant by...
Calif. State Fund To Receive $113,000 For Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 6 2007 // San Diego County Superior Court Judge Fred McGuire has ordered a San Diego construction firm owner to pay the California State Compensation Insurance Fund $113,327 in restitution for defrauding the workers’...
Violent Crime Up, Property Crime Down in 2006, FBI Reports
Jun 6 2007 // Violent crime increased 1.3 percent in 2006 when compared with data from 2005. However, property crime decreased 2.9 percent for the same time period, according to the FBI. Violent crime was up, except in the Northeast....
Md. Claims Adjuster Pleads Guilty to Stealing Workers’ Comp Checks
Jun 5 2007 // Maryland Attorney General Douglas F. Gansler reports that Natalie L. Mack, a former insurance claims adjustor with CompManagement, Inc., pled guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City to stealing approximately...
W. Va. Woman Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud Charges
Jun 5 2007 // Andrea R. Renquest pleaded guilty in Harrison County, W. Va. to one felony count and one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud. Renquest, 23, of Clarksburg, W. Va., admitted May 29 that she obtained a controlled substance...
Texas AG cracks down on lender for ID theft exposure
Jun 4 2007 // Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott says Ohio-based CNG Financial Corporation and subsidiaries Check ‘n Go of Texas Inc. and Southwestern & Pacific Specialty Finance Inc. have been systematically exposing their...
Maryland law targets staging accident fraudsters
Jun 4 2007 // Maryland became only the second state to make staging a car accident to steal insurance money a specific crime when Gov. Martin O’Malley signed a bill into law recently. According to the Coalition Against Insurance...
