Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Conn. Gov. Rell Signs New ID Theft Protection Law
Jul 11 2005 // Under a new law signed by Governor M. Jodi Rell, consumers in Connecticut will have the right to put a security freeze on their credit files to prevent identity thieves from opening new credit accounts in their...
Attorney Sentenced for Insurance Scam
Jul 11 2005 // A Marina del Rey, California attorney was sentenced July 8 to seven years and eight months in prison for his role in an auto insurance fraud ring that stole about $3 million, officials said. Robert Belshaw was found guilty...
Survey: One in Five Americans Have Been Victims of Identity Fraud
Jul 8 2005 // With companies reporting data breaches seemingly every week, more people are becoming victims of identity theft, according to a survey of more than 1,850 Americans sponsored by Chubb Group of Insurance Companies. The...
Wash. L&I’s Anti-Fraud Effort Recovers $27M in First Three Mos. of 2005
Jul 7 2005 // The Washington Department of Labor and Industries’ fraud program recovered more than $27 million in the first three months of this year, according to a report sent to the state Legislature and the Office of Financial...
N.Y. Sees Drop in Auto Insurance Fraud, Injury Suits
Jul 6 2005 // The number of suspected automobile insurance fraud cases dropped across New York last year by 17 percent, according to a new report. New York State Insurance Department officials said fraud cases, which for years have been...
Construction Co. Owner Sentenced in Okla. Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Jul 6 2005 // The owner of a Tulsa construction company will pay $20,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to workers’ compensation fraud, according to Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson. William R. King, 41, was...
Former Agent Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges in La.
Jul 5 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that Phyllis Malveaux Breaux of Lafayette, a former licensed insurance agent, pled guilty on June 27, 2005, to felony theft over $500 before Judge Jules Edwards in...
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty on Two Counts, Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 5 2005 // John Arcurio, 49, of Fillmore, plead guilty June 22, to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and insurance fraud. Arcurio was arrested in Kern County and transferred to the County of Ventura Superior...
AUTO THEFTS DOWN 2% FOR 2ND STRAIGHT YEAR:
Jul 4 2005 // Auto thefts in Ohio appear to have declined more than 2 percent for the second consecutive year, according to estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute. Based on auto theft survey results of 17 major Ohio city...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // TRG Officials Must Pay $2.5 M Carmelo Zanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills,...
There’s a Lot of Fraud Out There!
Jul 4 2005 // Insurance fraud investigators at the 13th Annual Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee Conference in Orlando pointed out that multiple insurance deductibles and higher deductibles can motivate insurance fraud’s...
Deductibles Motivated Homeowners to Cheat on Claims
Jul 4 2005 // Investigators Cite Increase in Fla. Insurance Fraud Insurance fraud has increased dramatically in Florida as an after-effect of the 2004 hurricane season Robert Elliott, a lead investigator with Nationwide...
FCCI WINS $16 M JUDGMENT IN SUSPECTED FRAUD CASE
Jul 4 2005 // A Sarasota, Fla. Circuit Court has awarded FCCI Insurance Company a $16,174,977 judgment in a civil action dating back to 2002. The judgment against S&H Drywall of Inverness, Fla., and Premier Enterprises Unlimited of...
PIP FRAUD TOPS FLORIDA’S ‘TOP 10 LIST’
Jul 4 2005 // Personal Injury Protection auto insurance fraud and title insurance trickery topped a summary of Florida’s top 10 costliest or boldest securities, financial and insurance fraud scams that resulted in arrests or...
THREE ARRESTED FOR ACCIDENT STAGING
Jul 4 2005 // The Louisiana State Police Insu-rance Fraud Unit arrested three Ville Platte residents on felony insurance fraud related warrants. The state police said the arrests were the result of an investigation into a staged...
GOV. SIGNS FRAUD LEGISLATION
Jul 4 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation making it tougher on criminals who commit insurance fraud in the state, according Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, which strongly supported the measures. Senate Bill 871 by...
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ comp premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran pled guilty on June 8 to one felony...
Editor’s Note:
Jul 4 2005 // There’s a Lot of Fraud Out There! Insurance fraud investigators at the 13th Annual Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee Conference in Orlando pointed out that multiple insurance deductibles and higher...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ALABAMA Arlene’s Timing Perfect for Referral List When Tropical Storm Arlene blew through Alabama it made the timing ideal for the release of a homeowners insurance referral list providing area homeowners with the...
