Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
RBH PLEADS GUILTY TO FRAUD CHARGES
Apr 4 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that RBH Enterprises Inc. of Keller, Texas, recently pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony offense for workers’ compensation insurance fraud-related charges. Judge Julie...
Calif. Sweep Nets Four Fraud Suspects
Apr 4 2005 // Starting Feb. 24, investigators from the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division conducted joint operations in the Central Valley to execute outstanding arrest warrants. CDI partnered with the Fresno...
Lake Charles Agent Told to Cease and Desist
Apr 1 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...
Del. Cracks Down on Auto Insurance Fraud
Apr 1 2005 // Delaware Insurance Commissioner Matt Denn has initiated a crackdown by his department on auto insurance fraud. Denn announced several policy changes in the way auto insurance fraud cases are handled, including makeing them...
Fireman’s Fund Launches Nationwide ‘Identity Theft’ Recovery Service
Apr 1 2005 // California-based Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company, the principal U.S. operating unit of Germany’s Allianz, announced that it now provides Identity Theft Restoration Services throughout the United...
N.Y. Court Upholds No-Fault Regulation Letting Insurers Deny Payments to Fraudulent Medical Firms
Apr 1 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...
La. Governor Appoints Inspector General to Combat Fraud, Mismanagement
Mar 29 2005 // Louisiana Governor Kathleen Babineaux Blanco announced the appointment of Sharon Buchanan Robinson as the new State Inspector General to lead the office in the prevention of waste, mismanagement, abuse, fraud and...
Prison Awaits W.Va. Couple After 10-Year Crime Spree, 60 Arsons
Mar 28 2005 // An insurance fraud scheme that continued for 10 years and left a trail 60 arsons across southern West Virginia, including burned mobile homes, buildings and automobiles, has netted a Logan County, W.Va. woman 15 years in...
Fireman’s Fund to Offer ID Theft Restoration Services
Mar 28 2005 // Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company announced that it will provide Identity Theft Restoration Services nationally, offering customers access to a personal counselor who can help identity theft victims with the legal and...
Texas Company Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 28 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that RBH Enterprises Inc. of Keller, Texas, recently pleaded guilty to a first-degree felony offense for workers’ compensation insurance fraud-related charges. Judge Julie...
ABI Says Authorities Expose $6.55 Million a Week in U.K. Insurance Fraud
Mar 24 2005 // According to figures recently issued Association of British Insurers (ABI), the “net is tightening” on the U.K.’s insurance cheats. The figures show a “dramatic rise in the value of fraudulent...
Former San Mateo Nordstrom Employee Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 23 2005 // Levi Scott Adams, of San Mateo, California, was arrested March 22 by investigators from the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division and the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office on three...
Calif. Man Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 22 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 California Department of Insurance...
Agents Beware: Due Diligence is Now Required on Brokers
Mar 21 2005 // Transactions between retail agents and brokers they place business through just became more labor intensive. I recently testified as an expert in a federal case involving a reputable agency’s failure to conduct...
Workers’ Compensation: In-Between the Good, the Bad, and the Injuries
Mar 21 2005 // With overall claims frequency still on the decline and loss costs and rates relatively stable, the state of the workers’ compensation line nationwide continues to show positive signs of improvement. Nevertheless, the...
San Antonio Agents Subject of Fraud Alert
Mar 21 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance issued a fraud alert pertaining to two San Antonio insurance agencies, The Insurance Center and The Insurance Connection, operating at 539 South General McMullen, 924 S. Zarzamora, and 710...
Nev. Man Charged for Work Comp Fraud
Mar 21 2005 // Following a guilty plea, Nevada District Judge Steven Kosach sentenced Dennis Dean Hogue to 12 to 34 months in the Nevada State Prison for one count of workers’ comp claimant fraud. Hogue was also ordered to make...
Man with Multiple Identities Indicted in International Scam
Mar 21 2005 // Matthew Wallace Schachter, aka Robert Lewis Brown, aka Matthew C. Rollins, was indicted in February on federal charges relating to an insurance fraud scheme that allegedly netted more than $20 million over the last four...
From the Fraud Wire … Outrageous Stories Hit the Headlines
Mar 21 2005 // A California Department of Insurance Fraud Division investigation allegedly caught a former Folsom, Calif., prison correctional officer on surveillance video riding a jet ski, using a water slide, and doing back-flips off...
Operation Scorpion Nets Nine Suspects
Mar 21 2005 // Authorities arrested nine auto body shop owners and employees, charging them with various felony counts of insurance fraud following “Operation Scorpion,” a joint investigation by California Department of...
