Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Man Gets Ride to Jail for Auto Scam
Apr 25 2005 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that a Middlesex County man has been sentenced to prison for his role in an automobile “give up” fraud. According to McKoy and Insurance...
Neb. Man Sentenced for Aiding Friend’s Fraud Scheme
Apr 21 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...
IIABNJ Holds Spring Fling for Industry Professionals
Apr 21 2005 // The Independent Insurance Agents and Brokers of New Jersey are preparing to hold the Annual Spring Fling for Continuing Education, May 17-18, at the Sheraton Hotel in Eatontown, N.J. Insurance professionals will have a...
N.J. Doc, Niece Keep Insurance Fraud a Family Matter
Apr 20 2005 // Vaughn McKoy, New Jersey director, Division of Criminal Justice, announced that an Essex County doctor and his niece have been ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution and fines after pleading guilty to multiple...
Identity Crisis: Coping With Today’s ID Thievery
Apr 18 2005 // Insurance, Recovery Services and Preventive Measures 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...
Highway Patrol: Hazardous Cargo Haulers Face Criminal Background Checks
Apr 18 2005 // Up Until Now Trucking Firms Performed the Checks But the FBI is Taking Over the Job The truck drivers who haul cargo labeled as flammable, combustible, radioactive or poisonous are now going to be scrutinized as closely as...
COURT UPHOLDS FRAUD RULE:
Apr 18 2005 // The New York Court of Appeals has upheld the right of an insurance company to refuse to reimburse fraudulently incorporated medical providers for no-fault auto insurance claims even when the medical care provided is...
DENN TACKLES AUTO FRAUD:
Apr 18 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has initiated several policy changes in the way auto insurance fraud cases are handled. He said that hearings for auto insurance fraud will now take place in public. Fines for...
Tougher Laws Key to Fight Against Insurance Fraud
Apr 18 2005 // How do you convince overworked state prosecutors to chase down often stale-sounding insurance swindles when their case files already are bulging with high-profile crimes such as drugs, robbery and murder? Insurance-fraud...
AGENT CHARGED WITH POCKETING PAYMENTS
Apr 18 2005 // A Lake Charles, La., insurance agent (producer) was arrested and issued a cease and desist order, along with a summary suspension of his license, on charges of submitting fraudulent damage repair claims and pocketing the...
CE CREDIT SCAM INVOLVES AGENTS
Apr 18 2005 // Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr. announced that Leo Vincent Jacob of Covington, La., has pled guilty to six counts of filing false public records in a criminal scheme that involved hundreds of insurance...
Hot Wheels for Sale! NICB Lists Top 10 Most Stolen Vehicles
Apr 18 2005 // The nation’s motor vehicle thieves continue to find the most popular automobiles as their primary targets for feeding the underground need for replacement parts and for export to foreign countries, reports a new...
TTrio Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Apr 18 2005 // On March 16, investigators from the Fresno County Urban Organized Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force and officers from the Stockton Police Department arrested Amberjeet Kaur Gill, of Stockton; Pete Vargas, Jr., of Fresno; and...
Calif. Student Arrested in Fraud Case
Apr 18 2005 // Alisa Louise Yates, and her husband, Gregory Daniel Yates, both of Buttonwillow, were taken into custody as a result of investigations by the California Highway Patrol, CDI’s Fraud Division, and the Kern County...
Man Sentenced for Work Comp Fraud
Apr 18 2005 // Gregg Leo Curwick, of Rancho Cucamonga, California, has been sentenced by the Kern County Superior Court for workers’ compensation insurance fraud after a joint investigation by the CDI’s Fraud Division, the...
NO CRIMINAL CHARGES LIKELY AGAINST AIG:
Apr 18 2005 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer reassured the business world and those affiliated with American International Group that criminal charges are not likely to flow from his department’s continuing investigations...
R.I. Lawmakers Eye Identity Theft Penalties
Apr 12 2005 // Rhode Island Rep. Al Gemma (D-Dist. 20, Warwick) wants to establish strict standards for identity theft protection and penalties for its violation. A bill he has filed will be heard today before the House Committee on...
N.C. Agents Detour Auto Fraud Ring Responsible for 480 Crashes, $2 M in False Claims
Apr 12 2005 // Six Chatham and Randolph County, N.C. residents suspected of masterminding an extensive auto insurance fraud ring which staged an estimated 480 auto crashes and defrauded more than $2 million have been arrested as the...
La. Romance Writer Booked on Insurance Fraud Charges
Apr 7 2005 // Louisiana state police say a New Orleans-based romance writer’s $1.8 million insurance claim for two diamond-encrusted bracelets was itself a romance: an extravagant story lacking basis in fact. Preposterous, says...
Unlicensed S. Fla. Psychotherapist Arrested for Bilking Patients, Providers
Apr 7 2005 // Florida insurance fraud investigators have arrested an unlicensed psychotherapist a second time for reportedly practicing psychotherapy without a license and fraudulently billing insurance companies for his services....
