Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Family, N.Y. Man Brake for Fraud
Aug 9 2004 // New Jersey Director of Division of Criminal Justice Vaughn McKoy announced that the Division of Criminal Justice, Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor, obtained an indictment charging four individuals with conspiracy,...
Joint Investigation Nabs Louisiana Workers’ Comp Fraudster
Aug 9 2004 // Louisiana’s Office of Workers’ Compensation Administration (OWCA) reported recently that an attempt to cheat the state’s workers’ compensation insurance program has resulted in a prosecution and...
California State Fund Fraud Program Nets $5 Million from Convictions
Aug 9 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund’s anti-fraud program has enabled California district attorneys to win more than $5 million in restitution orders. The restitution judgments are reportedly a direct result of 155...
Fla. CFO Warns Against Bogus Insurance Offers
Aug 5 2004 // At least 150 pregnant women were reportedly lured into buying bogus health insurance by a man not even licensed to sell insurance, prompting Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher to issue a renewed warning...
Reputed Mobster Pleads Guilty to Staged Accidents, Insurance Fraud Charges in New York
Aug 4 2004 // A reputed member of the Bonanno crime family pleaded guilty to running a major insurance scam, which used a corrupt medical clinic in Queens to file millions of dollars in bogus insurance claims. Joseph Fratta, who was...
Three Suspects Arrested for Alleged Auto, Work Comp Insurance Fraud
Aug 3 2004 // Investigators arrested three people August 3 on numerous felony charges after a 3-year California Department of Insurance investigation into a chiropractic office, which uncovered numerous alleged auto insurance and...
Allstate New Jersey, Encompass Insurance to Receive $6.65 Million Award in Fraud Case
Jul 29 2004 // The United States Bankruptcy Court in Newark, N.J. has ordered a former New Jersey chiropractor to pay Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company and Encompass Insurance more than $6.6 million dollars. U.S. Bankruptcy Court...
PIANJ Treasurer Named to WC Fraud Working Group
Jul 28 2004 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New Jersey Inc. treasurer, Gary Rygiel, was selected to represent the association in a working group addressing workers’ compensation premium fraud and evasion. The group is under...
La. Man Arrested for Insurance Card Fraud
Jul 28 2004 // Louisiana State Police arrested a New Orleans man on felony counts of forgery and insurance fraud for allegedly making and selling fake automobile insurance cards for $70 each, according to the Associated Press and the New...
Md. Agent Charged in Fraud Case
Jul 27 2004 // Maryland Attorney General Joseph Curran, Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Dorothy Faye Mortimer, 61, of Waldorf, Maryland. In a forty-four (44) count criminal indictment filed in the...
Joint Investigation Nabs La. Workers’ Comp Fraudster
Jul 26 2004 // Louisiana’s Workers’ Compensation Administration reported recently that another attempt to cheat the state’s workers’ compensation insurance program has resulted in a prosecution and serves as a...
Fla. Resident Charged in Workers’ Comp Case
Jul 25 2004 // A former employee with a Spring Hill, Florida, rehabilitation center was caught performing manual labor while collecting workers’ compensation benefits for an alleged injury sustained on the job in...
Sen. Schumer Targets N.Y. Car Insurance Fraud
Jul 23 2004 // Fraud and auto insurance scams are costing New York drivers millions in inflated insurance premiums, U.S. Senator Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) warned. New York drivers pay the second highest car insurance rates in the...
C&D Order Issued to La. Agent
Jul 22 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance shut down a Jena, La. insurance producer and issued a Cease and Desist order, along with a summary suspension of her insurance license, for allegedly misappropriating premium dollars...
Houston Man Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 21 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Travis County’s 147th District Court grand jury indicted Henry Prince of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The insurer said Prince allegedly...
State Fraud Laws Need to Be Tougher, Group Says
Jul 20 2004 // More states urgently need to pass targeted laws to bust widespread staged-accident rings and swindlers who sell fake commercial insurance around the U.S., the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud told state lawmakers at the...
One-on-One with Montana State Fund President Laurence Hubbard
Jul 19 2004 // In recent months, Montana lawmakers have been discussing the state’s workers’ comp system, primarily the existence and function of the Montana State Fund. There has been talk of privatizing the Fund, or selling...
Miami Adjusters Facing Charges
Jul 19 2004 // Two Miami insurance adjusters are facing charges of insurance fraud and grand theft for allegedly collecting more than $25,000 by padding legitimate automobile accident claims with fictitious victims. Harold Rasco, 29, of...
FRAUD STATS SHOW NEED FOR RULES:
Jul 19 2004 // The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners (ACFE), the Austin-based provider of anti-fraud training and education worldwide, announced the release of the 2004 Report to the Nation on Occupational Fraud and Abuse. Based...
Texas Gov. Targets Fraud in Executive Order
Jul 14 2004 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry issued a sweeping directive to all state agencies to establish wide-ranging efforts to detect and eliminate fraud in government programs. “Fraud increases the price employers pay for worker...
