Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.Y. Pizza Shop Owner Faces Workers Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 8 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that the owner of Village Pizza & Burger, located at 156 North Main Street in Spring Valley, N.Y., has been arrested and charged with insurance...
New Orleans Bail Bondsman Loses Insurance Licenses
Mar 8 2004 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance announced that a bail bond agent operating in the Greater New Orleans area and beyond signed a departmental “Consent to Voluntary Revocation” document, which revokes all...
Mountaineer State Faces Many of the Nation’s Same Issues
Mar 8 2004 // While not the biggest state in the southeastern region, West Virginia like all other states has its insurance issues. Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline recently set aside some time to talk with Insurance Journal Southeast...
Ky. Agents Await Sentencing
Mar 8 2004 // According to the Fraud Investigation Division of the Kentucky Office of Insurance, two individuals have been convicted of committing fraudulent insurance acts. Mark A. Calitri, 34, of Richmond was found guilty of two...
Ga. Woman Accused of Filing Phony Claim
Mar 8 2004 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine announced that an Adel woman has been arrested and charged with filing a fraudulent insurance claim. Teresa Kay Griffin, 33, was arrested and booked into the Cook County Jail....
Arrests Ongoing in Fla. PIP Fraud Investigation
Mar 8 2004 // An Orlando clinic owner, his wife and office manager were arrested recently in an ongoing investigation of a Miami-based “paper” auto accident ring that so far has resulted in 46 arrests. Investigators with the...
Calif. Attorney Sentenced in Alleged Auto Fraud Ring
Mar 5 2004 // A five-year undercover investigation into a staged auto collision ring came to a conclusion Friday with the sentencing of the final attorney implicated by the joint efforts of the California Department of Insurance (CDI)...
N.Y. Arrests 12 for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 2 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio joined Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, NY State Insurance Fund Executive Director Kenneth Ross and NY State Workers’ Compensation Fraud...
State Fund Awarded $800,000 in Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Feb 27 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund will collect $800,000 in restitution from two former owners of a San Diego County-based construction company. This award followed their guilty plea on felony workers’ compensation...
N.Y. Gov. Pataki Announces $4.3 Million in Grants to Combat Auto Theft and Fraud
Feb 26 2004 // Governor George E. Pataki has announced $4.3 million in grants to 27 programs to reduce motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud across New York State. The funding will be distributed to programs that provide law...
Toyota Reacts to Camry’s Ranking on NICB Stolen List
Feb 26 2004 // Toyota Motor Sales USA Inc. released a statement regarding the 1989 Camry ranking on the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s most stolen vehicles list: “Toyota is committed to reducing cost of ownership of its...
Bauer Investigation to Provide Workers’ Comp Fraud Surveillance Videos on GMA
Feb 24 2004 // Bauer Investigation has been selected over other investigative firms nationwide to provide surveillance video to Good Morning America the morning of Wednesday, Feb. 25. The ABC morning news program is broadcasting a report...
N.Y. Arrests Man for Phony WC Certs.
Feb 23 2004 // New York State Fraud investigators announced the arrest of Lon T. Horton on 43 counts of issuing fraudulent certificates of insurance, two counts of insurance fraud, four counts of petit larceny and one count of falsifying...
N.J. Man Faces Additional Charges
Feb 23 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Camden County man, previously sentenced to 10 years in state prison for stealing more than $140,000 in Sept. 11 survivor benefits, has admitted committing...
Identity Theft
Feb 23 2004 // Nuts & Bolts: Travelers Property Casualty Corp. is offering a new master policy to cover identity theft expenses. Financial institutions or other commercial businesses can purchase this policy on behalf of their...
TCIF HEARS FRAUD EXPERTS:
Feb 23 2004 // Elliott Flood, vice president of special investigations for Texas Mutual Insurance Company, recently addressed the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud (TCIF) on the topic of workers’ compensation fraud. He was one of...
Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Feb 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five businesses in one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operations in the history of Monterey County. Arrested were: 40-year-old David Alan Long, owner of...
Workers Aren’t the Only Comp Cheats
Feb 23 2004 // Detection by front-line insurance company personnel … is often the first line of defense against workers’ comp fraud. Within the insurance industry—and even outside it—workers’ compensation fraud is...
Md. Man Jailed for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 20 2004 // The Injured Workers Insurance Fund (IWIF), Maryland’s largest workers’ compensation writer, noted that Terry Hedges of Baldwin, Md. was found guilty of insurance fraud against IWIF and was sentenced to one year...
Former Manning Riddell Employee Speaks Out on Alleged Fraud
Feb 18 2004 // Insurance Journal was recently contacted by a former employee of Manning Riddell Insurance Services Inc., the Torrance-based risk purchasing group reportedly under investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
