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California Correctional Officer Submits Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claims
May 23 2006 // A former California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation correctional officer has been arrested on insurance fraud charges for submitting fraudulent workers’ comp claims, according to Insurance Commissioner...
California Resident Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
May 23 2006 // A Twentynine Palms, Calif., resident has been charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud. Jacob Leatherberry, 32, is charged with three felony counts of insurance fraud related to a 2005 auto accident and was...
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May 22 2006 // S. Fla. agent sold ‘bogus’ policies The license of South Florida insurance agent, Gordon Arthur Esses of Aventura, Fla. has had his license revoked for selling “bogus” policies. According to Tom...
West leads nation in car theft; Auto theft declines for second straight year
May 22 2006 // Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2005, the West, and particularly California, leads the nation in auto theft. All of the nation’s top 10 areas with the...
West leads nation in car theft; Auto theft declines for second straight year
May 22 2006 // News Currents Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2005, the West, and particularly California, leads the nation in auto theft. All of the nation’s top 10...
Top 10 vehicle theft areas
May 22 2006 // 1. Modesto, Calif. 2. Las Vegas/Paradise, Nev. 3. Stockton, Calif. 4. Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, Ariz. 5. Visalia/Porterville, Calif. 6. Seattle/Tacoma/Bellevue, Wash. 7. Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, Calif. 8. San...
Florida officials make 80 arrests, kick off ‘operation spring cleaning’
May 22 2006 // A special statewide operation targeting the arrest of 80 suspects from Miami to Pensacola, Fla. for their roles in insurance fraud schemes, dubbed “operation spring cleaning,” was launched in early May by the...
Auto theft declines for second straight year
May 22 2006 // Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that preliminary FBI data shows a 2.1 percent decrease in motor vehicle thefts during January to June 2005 when compared with the same period in 2004....
West leads nation in car theft; Auto theft declines for second straight year
May 22 2006 // News Currents Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2005, the West, and particularly California, leads the nation in auto theft. All of the nation’s top 10...
Top 10 vehicle theft areas
May 22 2006 // 1. Modesto, Calif. 2. Las Vegas/Paradise, Nev. 3. Stockton, Calif. 4. Phoenix/Mesa/Scottsdale, Ariz. 5. Visalia/Porterville, Calif. 6. Seattle/Tacoma/Bellevue, Wash. 7. Sacramento/Arden-Arcade/Roseville, Calif. 8. San...
Miss. Medicaid Fraud Investigations Result in One Arrest, One Guilty Plea
May 18 2006 // Attorney General Jim Hood has announced the result of two investigations in Jackson, Miss. by the Medicaid Fraud Unit of the Attorney General’s Office. On May 11, Sara Delphine Williams of Smithdale, Miss. was...
Eight Indicted by San Diego County Grand Jury for Fraud
May 18 2006 // Eight Massachusetts residents have been indicted for insurance premium fraud charges by a San Diego County grand jury. The eight owners and employees of Massachusetts-based National Independent Contractors Association...
Father and Son Arrested in California for Workers Comp Fraud
May 16 2006 // Glendale, Calif., car wash owners Shagen Galstanyan, 51, and his son, Vahe Tergalstanyan, 23, have been arrested for workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Both suspects were booked into the Riverside County Jail...
Fla. Apprehends 28 in Fake Insurance Card Scheme
May 15 2006 // Twenty-eight individuals have been arrested in Florida for manufacturing, selling or buying fraudulent insurance binders and insurance identification cards according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s chief financial...
Calif. Broker Pleads No Contest to Premium Theft
May 14 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the no contest plea for insurance broker Alicia Lavendier, 44, for one count of grand theft and one count of insurance premium theft. Lavendier pled no contest on...
Metro N.Y. Auto Claims Costlier Than Upstate, Industry Study Says
May 12 2006 // A recent Insurance Research Council (IRC) study of auto injury insurance claims in the state of New York finds that claimants from the New York City metropolitan area exhibit very different claiming behaviors than...
Five Calif. Residents Arrested for Suspected Auto Insurance Fraud
May 12 2006 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of three suspects who were allegedly said to have participated in the staging of auto collisions on the 605 Freeway. Three of the suspects —...
South Carolina Car Theft Rate Continues to Rise
May 12 2006 // The number of vehicles stolen in South Carolina has risen for the seventh year in a row. According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) annual report on auto theft rates, Hot Spots, there were nearly...
Vermont Joins States Making Insurance Fraud a Specific Crime
May 11 2006 // In what supporters hope amounts to a preemptive strike on insurance schemes, Vermont’s legislature on its last day of the 2006 legislative session passed a bill making insurance fraud a specific crime. Gov. Jim...
Auto Theft Declines for Second Straight Year; West Leads Nation in Car Theft
May 9 2006 // Des Plaines, Ill.-based National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2005, the West, and particularly California, leads the nation in auto theft. All of the nation’s top ten areas with the...
