Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
22 Insurance-Fraud Ring Members Apprehended; Fla. Warns Others About Tough Penalties
Feb 18 2005 // A campaign to point out the consequences of staging an auto accident or participating in auto insurance fraud has been launched by the Florida Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud. The...
Insurance Fraud Allegations Against Ga. Mayor Settled
Feb 17 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...
Insurer Disputes WebMD Crime Coverage
Feb 17 2005 // An insurance company is refusing to cover losses at WebMD, asserting it has no responsibility because senior executives knew about the kickback scheme at the health information and transaction firm. The insurer, Fidelity...
Louisiana Hotline Aims to ‘Stamp Out Fraud’
Feb 17 2005 // State government agencies in Louisiana hope to encourage citizens to report fraud by starting a statewide “Stamp Out Fraud” hot line, the Associated Press reported. The toll free number gives Louisiana...
ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’
Feb 17 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...
Mass. Fraud Crackdown Lowers Claims Substantially
Feb 16 2005 // Auto accident claims are down significantly in Lawrence, Mass. and several other Merrimack Valley communities after a 16-month crackdown on auto insurance fraud, according to an industry report. The Insurance Fraud Bureau...
As Motorcycle Theft Rate Accelerates, LoJack Offers Global Motorcycle Recovery System
Feb 16 2005 // Easy riders concerned about how easily their wheels may be lifted have a new partner in the fight against theft. The company that created the global stolen vehicle recovery system for autos and then applied it to...
Calif. Man Indicted on Federal Charges in International Insurance Fraud Scam
Feb 16 2005 // Matthew Wallace Schachter, aka Robert Lewis Brown, aka Matthew C. Rollins (Brown), 58, was indicted on federal charges relating to an insurance fraud scheme that allegedly netted more than $20 million over the last four...
Chiropractors, Law Administrator Surrender on Insurance Fraud Charges
Feb 16 2005 // A Downey law office administrator, Rebecca M. Perez, of Riverside, and two Downey chiropractors, Dr. Raymond T. Oca, of Cypress, and Dr. Paul J. Lopez, of Huntington Beach, surrendered themselves to the Los Angeles County...
Fraud Bill Passes Ind. House
Feb 16 2005 // The Indiana House passed HR 1403, a fraud bill that would increase jail terms for larger insurance scams, by 95 to one and will move to the Senate for debate. According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud,...
Man with Multiple Identities Indicted on Federal Charges in International Scam
Feb 14 2005 // Matthew Wallace Schachter, aka Robert Lewis Brown, aka Matthew C. Rollins (Brown), 58, was indicted last week on federal charges relating to an insurance fraud scheme that allegedly netted more than $20 million over the...
Two Plead Guilty in Big Virginia Insurance Fraud Case Involving Former Malpractice Reciprocal
Feb 11 2005 // Two former top officers of collapsed Reciprocal of America are scheduled for sentencing in June for their roles in what a federal prosecutor called one of Virginia’s biggest insurance fraud cases. Kenneth R....
N.J. Man ‘Falls’ Into Fraud Scam; Charged Newspaper Delivery Person Responsible for Injury
Feb 9 2005 // New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice Director Vaughn McKoy announced that an Ocean County man has pleaded guilty to charges of perjury and falsifying records as part of a phony “slip and fall” bodily injury...
“Operation Scorpion” Nets Nine in Fraud Scheme
Feb 9 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 the California Department of...
Ind. Fraud Bill May Get Facelift
Feb 9 2005 // Strengthening Indiana’s weak insurance-fraud law will raise Indiana’s fraud statute to a par with other states, the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud told key legislators in testimony recently. “This bill...
Johnson Joins Special Texas Insurance Fraud Post
Feb 8 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance has hired Kyson Johnson as a special insurance fraud prosecutor in the Dallas County District Attorney’s Office. The new position, part of the Special Crimes Unit, represents the...
Neb. DOI Says 30,000 Covered by Possibly Fraudulent Health Plans
Feb 7 2005 // Citing a report from Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Nebraska Department of Insurance stated that an estimated 30,145 Nebraskans were found to be covered by self-insured Multiple Employer Welfare Arrangements. As a...
Ohio Man Commits Misdemeanor Fraud
Feb 7 2005 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Springfield man has been sentenced for a misdemeanor charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Jeff Hamm was sentenced to three months incarceration, a $300...
Mo. Agent Charged for Securities Fraud
Feb 7 2005 // Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon has filed criminal charges alleging securities fraud against Springfield insurance agent George William “Bill” Hull. The felony complaint, filed in Greene County Associate...
Fla. Arrests Unlicensed Adjusters
Feb 7 2005 // Florida insurance fraud investigators arrested two unlicensed public adjusters, one in Broward County and one in Orange County. These arrests bring the total to seven unlicensed public adjusters arrested in the aftermath...
