Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Wash. Commissioner Wants to Investigate Staged Accidents
Dec 28 2005 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wants to create a new fraud unit to investigate staged traffic accidents. These can involve a network of lawyers, doctors, chiropractors and physical...
MedAlert Healthcare Systems Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 27 2005 // A Travis County, Texas, grand jury has indicted MedAlert Healthcare Systems Inc. and its president, Joseph Osei, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. MedAlert...
Insurance Fraud Detectives Apprehend Miamian on 48 Felony Charges
Dec 22 2005 // A Miami man is facing more than 48 felony charges after surrendering Tuesday to insurance fraud detectives with the Department of Financial Services investigating the theft of nearly $1 million in a 2002 mortgage...
Devlin to Chair Texas Insurance Fraud Committee
Dec 22 2005 // Dennis J. Devlin, regional vice president of the Travelers Property and Casualty Insurance Company, has assumed the chairmanship of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud. Devlin replaces Craig Sparks, CEO of Union...
W.Va. Bus Driver Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 22 2005 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of...
IBC Picks Canada’s 2005 “Top Ten” Insurance Crimes
Dec 21 2005 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada has released its annual Top Ten Insurance Crimes list, which highlights “some of the strangest and most audacious insurance frauds and auto theft cases uncovered by insurance...
Fla. Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit Commander Describes Four Common Violations
Dec 19 2005 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of workers’ compensation fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’...
NAMIC Supports Arizona Legislative Study of Auto Theft
Dec 19 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), Indianapolis, said it will support a legislative study on auto theft in Arizona when the bill is heard in the state’s legislature. A proposed bill has...
Fraud Case Records Found in Longwood
Dec 19 2005 // A trash bin in Longwood, Fla. near Orlando has revealed boxes of medical records with photographs, names, Social Security numbers and personal information about chiropractic patients in Lawrence, Mass. treated by Prestige...
‘Fraud Fighters’ Pay $16,000 in Rewards
Dec 19 2005 // Five individuals who reported fraud perpetrators have received $16,000 in cash rewards from the Florida Financial Services Department after the recipients, including a child, provided information that led fraud detectives...
Calif. Physician Sentenced for Eight Years
Dec 19 2005 // A Brentwood, Calif., physician who pleaded no contest to fraud charges in three separate cases was sentenced to an eight-year prison term and ordered to pay his victims $5 million, the District Attorney’s office...
Marin County Contractor Pleads Guilty
Dec 18 2005 // A licensed general contractor and owner of a Marin County, Calif., roofing company has pled guilty to workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud, unemployment insurance fraud and filing false income tax...
FLORIDA
Dec 18 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally...
N.Y. Auto Theft Ring Gets Parked; 37 Individuals Arrested to Date
Dec 16 2005 // New York City Police Commissioner Raymond Kelly, Kings Country District Attorney Charles Hynes and New York State Superintendent of Insurance Howard Mills have reported the takedown of “Operation Brownsville...
Calif. Man Sentenced Following Plea on Pair of Workers’ Comp Fraud Counts
Dec 15 2005 // Ventura County (California) District Attorney Gregory Totten reported that Everardo Ramirez Vega (DOB 11-28-1967) was recently sentenced after his plea on two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. The...
17 Arrested in Calif. on Insurance Fraud, Grand Theft
Dec 15 2005 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrests of 17 suspects in connection with an alleged Southern California insurance fraud scheme that netted more than $100,000 through ruse involving a former...
CDI Fraud Division Aids Bust of 23 Individuals in Auto Theft Ring
Dec 15 2005 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) reported its major role in the bust of a major auto theft ring that could potentially have generated more than $420,000 in insurance fraud. The CDI Fraud Division was reportedly...
Six Arrested in Suspected Calif. Workers’ Comp Fraud Ring
Dec 13 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has announced the arrest of six suspects following a two-year, multi-agency undercover investigation into an alleged insurance fraud “mill” that reportedly...
Okeechobee, Fla. Building Contractor Apprehended for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Grand Theft
Dec 12 2005 // Okeechobee building contractor Merle Dee Johnson has been bonded out of the Okeechobee County Jail after being arrested by Florida investigators for allegedly committing workers’ compensation fraud and grand theft....
Florida Proposes Strict Insurance Fraud Reporting Requirements
Dec 8 2005 // Strict insurance fraud reporting requirements will soon be initiated by the Florida Division of Insurance Fraud, according to Tom Gallagher, Department of Financial Services CFO. In the wake of multiple hurricanes DFS has...
