Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Fla. Agent Charged with Theft
May 10 2004 // A Florida insurance agent is facing criminal charges and loss of his license over charges that he stole premiums from numerous customers, including the Brazilian Missionary Community Church, Corp. Jerrod Keith Zelanka, 27,...
N.Y. Woman No Jewel; Arrested on Fraud Charges
May 7 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Manhattan District Attorney Robert Morgenthau on Friday announced the arrest and indictment of a Manhattan resident for attempting to collect $262,000 in an insurance...
New Orleans Agent Shut Down for Misappropriating Funds; Submitted 21 False Annuity Applications
May 6 2004 // Louisiana Insurance Commissioner J. Robert Wooley announced that Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served New Orleans agent, Tanya Maria Price, 38, with cease and desist orders and summary suspensions of her...
Fla. Woman Charged with Selling Phony Insurance Cards
May 4 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced the arrest Monday of a woman who reportedly sold phony motor vehicle insurance cards to an undercover insurance fraud investigator with the Department of...
N.Y. Dept.’s of Insurance, State Recognize Arson Awareness Week, Encourage New Yorkers to Join Fight
May 4 2004 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Secretary of State Randy Daniels on Monday recognized national “Arson Awareness Week” by encouraging New Yorkers to protect themselves from arson-related...
Ala. A.G. Warns of Home Repair Fraud
May 4 2004 // May is Remodeling Consumer Protection Month, and Alabama Attorney General Troy King is teaming with the Alabama Home Builders Licensure Board, the Home Builders Association of Alabama, and the Better Business Bureau in an...
Fla. Father, Son Keep It All in the Family When It Comes to Fraud
May 3 2004 // A father and son have pleaded guilty to diverting thousands of dollars in premiums from a South Florida insurance agency. John Pascale, former owner of AAA Turnpike Insurance Agency, pleaded guilty to one count each of...
Dozens Arrested For Auto Body Insurance Fraud in Northern California
May 3 2004 // A multi-agency enforcement unit conducted a sweep April 1 that has to date resulted in the arrests of 27 suspects following a year-long undercover investigation into auto body insurance fraud. Warrants were issued by the...
Texas Fraud Committee Gearing Up for Legislative Action
May 3 2004 // Acknowledging that nothing significant would happen until after the Texas Legislature closes out its special session on school finance reform, members of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud pushed forward recently on...
RODRIGUEZ ADMITS COMP FRAUD:
May 3 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Enrique Rodriguez, of Houston, has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. He was sentenced to two years deferred probation and 100 hours of...
Former Ky. State Policeman Found Guilty on Charges of Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 3 2004 // West Virginia Workers’ Compensation Commission Executive Director Gregory Burton announced that a former Kentucky state police officer has been convicted in Kanawha County Circuit Court of felony workers’...
Fla. Couple Nailed for $1.5 Million in Construction Contract Fraud
May 3 2004 // Attorney General Charlie Crist and Florida Department of Transportation Secretary José Abreu announced the arrest of a Central Florida couple for defrauding the state out of more than $1.5 million in road construction and...
Kentucky Market Gallops Along Under Acting Executive Director
May 3 2004 // With agents witnessing increasing competition in Kentucky’s property/casualty market, Kentucky Office of Insurance Acting Executive Director Glenn Jennings recently talked with Insurance Journal Southeast. Jennings...
California DOI Improves Efforts to Combat Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Apr 29 2004 // Since taking office in January, 2003, Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi has worked vigorously to spur reform of the state’s broken workers’ compensation system. A top priority has been the effort to fight...
Mass. Plumber to Spend Time at Home for WC Fraud
Apr 27 2004 // An Abington, Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to charges he schemed, along with his insurance agent, to avoid paying more than $131,000 in workers’ compensation insurance premiums, Attorney General Tom Reilly...
PCI Insurance Fraud Expert Addresses NY Conference
Apr 26 2004 // Rey Becker, the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America’s (PCI) vice president, personal lines, addressed insurance company CEOs, presidents, vice presidents and other senior executives about the ongoing...
Pecoraro Pleads Guilty to Fraud Conspiracy
Apr 26 2004 // A man who ran a pub in England while on the lam from Louisiana’s 1990s insurance scandals pleaded guilty to a federal charge and faces up to five years in prison, the Associated Press reported. Nofio Pecoraro Jr.,...
New Orleans Bail Bond Agent Shut Down
Apr 26 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a New Orleans-area bail bond agent was shut down on charges of operating without a valid license, alleged violations of the law involving personal surety bonds, and...
Rodriguez Admits Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 23 2004 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Enrique Rodriguez of Houston has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The 390th District Court of Travis County sentenced Rodriguez to two years...
Bay Area Man Arrested on East Coast in $4 Million Insurance Fraud Scam
Apr 23 2004 // Richard W. Peterson, 63, of San Francisco, a former insurance broker/agent, was arrested April 19th at Miami International Airport on federal fraud charges for allegedly selling approximately $4 million of fake insurance...
