Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Contractor Sentenced in Comp Fraud Case
Jun 6 2005 // The owner of a Corona, California-based construction firm has begun serving a two-year jail sentence as part of his conviction on felony workers’ comp insurance fraud. Lawrence S. Hatfield, of Orange County, owner of...
Identity Crisis: Coping With Today’s ID Thievery
Jun 6 2005 // One in 23 adults can expect to be victimized this year by identity thieves, at a cost to Americans of more than $50 billion. That’s according to the 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report from the Better Business Bureau...
Identity Crisis: Coping With Today’s ID Thievery
Jun 6 2005 // One in 23 adults can expect to be victimized this year by identity thieves, at a cost to Americans of more than $50 billion. That’s according to the 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report from the Better Business Bureau...
Former California Broker Goes to Jail
Jun 6 2005 // Former Vallejo insurance broker Jimmie Earl Jackson, who pled guilty to felony grand theft in Solano County Superior Court May 5, was sentenced to 180 days in County Jail and ordered to serve three years of formal...
Identity Crisis: Coping With Today’s ID Thievery
Jun 6 2005 // One in 23 adults can expect to be victimized this year by identity thieves, at a cost to Americans of more than $50 billion. That’s according to the 2005 Identity Fraud Survey Report from the Better Business Bureau...
Former California Broker Goes to Jail
Jun 6 2005 // Former Vallejo insurance broker Jimmie Earl Jackson, who pled guilty to felony grand theft in Solano County Superior Court May 5, was sentenced to 180 days in County Jail and ordered to serve three years of formal...
Pawlenty Warns Minn. Consumers of Fraudulent Health Plans
Jun 3 2005 // Gov. Tim Pawlenty recently alerted Minnesota consumers to misleading health plan advertisements that have been faxed to Minnesota businesses and individuals. These plans do not provide insurance coverage and do not...
La. Police Officer Arrested for Alleged Ins. Fraud
Jun 3 2005 // The Louisiana State Police reported that its insurance fraud unit and the Federal Bureau of Investigation recently arrested a Marksville city police officer after a lengthy investigation into an alleged insurance fraud...
State Fund Instructs So. Cal Employers on Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 31 2005 // As part of its ongoing statewide educational program on workers’ compensation fraud, State Compensation Insurance Fund held a seminar on May 20, for San Bernardino County employers. State Fund was joined by the San...
Lake Charles Producer Arrested
May 31 2005 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance reported its investigators, accompanied by law enforcement, recently shut down a Lake Charles producer, who was charged with alleged misappropriation of funds. It was the fourth time...
N.J. Insurance Fraud Unit Itself Target of Probe Over Employee Payroll
May 31 2005 // New Jersey’s award-winning office created to root out insurance fraud is under scrutiny itself, with the state auditor probing allegations the insurance industry was billed about $4 million for employees who never...
SPSS Says Its New Technology Can Predict Fraudulent Claims
May 31 2005 // Chicago-based SPSS recently unveiled a new software product it said will reduce insurance fraud, significantly improve the claims process and cut costs. SPSS’ PredictiveClaims, an application based on real-time...
TDI Reports April Enforcement Actions
May 27 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Jose Montemayor that became final during the month of April. The actions include eleven license revocations, a license denials and fines...
N.Y. Lawyer Involved in Frankel Insurance Scheme is Sentenced
May 27 2005 // Kevin O’Connor, United States Attorney for the District of Connecticut, announced that Thomas Bolan, 80, of Flushing, New York, was sentenced this week for his role in Martin Frankel’s multi-million dollar...
N.Y. AG Spitzer, Supt. Mills File Civil Suit Against AIG
May 26 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and State Insurance Superintendent Howard Mills announced a lawsuit against the nation’s largest business insurance company, alleging that the firm manipulated its books to...
NAMIC: Statutory Remedies to Curb Fraud Abuse Spreading Across U.S.
May 25 2005 // To combat insurance fraud that costs consumers an average of $200-300 per year, 40 states have established entities responsible for oversight of related investigations and prosecution efforts, according to an analysis by...
Two Floridians Charged With Staging Accident, Filing False Claim
May 25 2005 // Two Broward County men are facing felony fraud charges after a state investigation determined they staged an accident in January and then filed fraudulent insurance claims for injuries that did not occur. Jesse Demetro,...
Calif. Broker Arrested on Seven Counts of Grand Theft
May 23 2005 // Insurance broker Robert Stephen Rice was arrested on seven felony counts of grand theft at his home in Thousand Oaks, California, by the CDI Fraud Division. The arrest is the result of an investigation by CDI. The Van Nuys...
Adjuster, Accomplices Arrested for Fraud
May 23 2005 // A Fullerton insurance claims adjuster and two accomplices were arrested April 8 by California Department of Insurance fraud investigators for their alleged participation in an auto insurance fraud scheme. According to...
Neb. Man Sentenced for Aiding Friend’s Fraud Scheme
May 23 2005 // Jerry D. Brunow, the lesser half of a Washington County, Neb., insurance fraud duo was recently sentenced to two years probation during court proceedings April 5, according to the Blair Pilot-Tribune. Brunow, 29, was...
