Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Indiana Bill Gets Tough on Insurance Fraud, Passes House 95-1
Mar 7 2005 // The Indiana House of Representatives voted 95-1 last month in support of a bill that would toughen penalties against insurance fraud in an attempt to provide prosecutors with a greater incentive to pursue such...
Dawson, Ga., Mayor Settles Allegations
Mar 7 2005 // More than two years of insurance fraud allegations were ended by Dawson, Ga., Mayor Robert Albritten when he pleaded no contest to nine misdemeanor counts. According to The Macon Telegraph, Albritten, a retired insurance...
22 S. Floridians Arrested in Fraud Ring
Mar 7 2005 // The arrests of 22 of 29 ring-members believed to be involved in a widespread racket, which bilked insurance companies for more than $1 million by staging at least a dozen auto crashes and making false claims to area...
Man Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Mar 7 2005 // On Jan. 13, 2005, Victor Morales Delgado and his brother-in-law, Jose Guerrero, both of Sacramento, self-surrendered to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Organized Auto Insurance Task Force for...
Calif. Man Collects Benefits on False Claim
Mar 7 2005 // On Dec. 8, 2004, Sammy Barela Rios, of Madera, was arrested by investigators from the CDI Fraud Division and booked into the Madera county jail on four felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and one felony...
CSR Reported Fraudulent Auto Theft
Mar 7 2005 // On Nov. 18, 2004, Cameron Antonio Wilkins, of Colfax, self-surrendered to CDI investigators. Wilkins was booked into the Sacramento county jail on one felony count of insurance fraud associated with the reported theft of...
Father, Son Arrested on Auto Fraud Charges
Mar 7 2005 // On Dec. 16, 2004, Virgil Ray Blackmer and his son, Brian Blackmer, both of San Jose, were arrested on one felony count each of insurance fraud. The suspects were booked into the Santa Clara county jail after they were...
UPSWorker Arrested for Comp Fraud
Mar 7 2005 // Stacey Wesley Prosser of Manteca was arrested on Nov. 18, 2004, and booked into the San Joaquin county jail on nine felony counts of insurance fraud. If convicted on all counts, Prosser could face up to five years in state...
ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’
Mar 7 2005 // ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public...
Aon Responds: Apologizes but Admits No Wrongoing; Notes No Criminal Charges Filed
Mar 4 2005 // Aon Corporation acknowledged the settlement it reached with officials in three states over investigations that questioned the large brokerage firm’s receipt of contingent commissions from insurers by apologizing for...
New Jersey’s OIFP Issues Annual Report
Mar 4 2005 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey has issued the 2004 Annual Report for the New Jersey Office of the Insurance Fraud Prosecutor (OIFP). The Report details investigations, prosecutions, and other activities...
ChoicePoint Reported to Have Had Previous ID Theft
Mar 3 2005 // Two Nigerian-born siblings were arrested in 2002 on charges of tapping into ChoicePoint Inc.’s vast database of personal information, a security breach similar to one announced by the data warehouser last month, a...
ICT and APD Work on Crime Prevention Signs
Mar 3 2005 // The Insurance Council of Texas (ICT) reported that it is partnering with the Austin Police Department to kick-off an innovative education effort to reduce automobile burglaries. The partnership led to the creation of signs...
La. State Police Make Insurance Fraud Arrests
Mar 3 2005 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud Unit reported that it recently closed a month-long investigation with the arrests of three Concordia Parish individuals. Michell Warren, 34, of Vidalia, Milton Cupstid, 58, of...
Jardine Lloyd Thompson Secures Lloyds of London Ins Protection to Financial & Healthcare Sectors as Identity Theft Grows
Mar 3 2005 // London: JLT Risk Solutions Ltd and Jardine Lloyd Thompson LLC, part of Jardine Lloyd Thompson Group plc (JLT.LN) said today insurance capacity has been secured within the Lloyd’s of London market to provide new...
14 Floridians Indicted for Federal Emergency Management Agency Fraud
Mar 2 2005 // A federal grand jury, sparked by a Fort Lauderdale Sun-Sentinel investigation into fraud in Miami-Dade hurricane aid payments through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, indicted 14 people on a variety of fraud counts...
General Re Under Scrutiny for Reinsurance Dealings with Failed Virginia Liability Reciprocal
Mar 2 2005 // General Reinsurance, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., has been subpoenaed in an investigation of Reciprocal of America, a former Virginia-based professional liability insurer whose collapse is considered one of the...
Kan. Senate Passes Anti-Fraud Bill
Mar 1 2005 // The Kansas Senate passed Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger’s anti-fraud legislation last week. The bill now moves to House of Representatives. Senate Bill 207 “would give the Kansas Insurance Department the...
Calif. Warrant Sweep Nets Eight Suspects; Six Wanted for Insurance Fraud
Feb 28 2005 // Starting last Thursday, investigators from the California Department of Insurance’s Fraud Division (CDI) conducted joint operations in the Central Valley to execute outstanding arrest warrants. This sweep netted...
Kan. DOI Pushes Tougher Fraud Penalties
Feb 22 2005 // The Kansas Insurance Department has asked the legislature to consider legislation that would help the department deal with the ever growing problem of insurance fraud. A 2003 Newsweek study indicates the insurance industry...
