Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former N.C. Agent Charged with Fraud
Apr 29 2003 // N.C. Insurance Commissioner Jim Long announced that a McDowell County resident was indicted by a Mitchell County Grand Jury on allegations of defrauding hundreds of insurance policyholders. Harold T. Davis, a former...
Florida Association Urges Senate to PIP Reform Bill
Apr 28 2003 // The Florida Property and Casualty Association announced that Florida’s top auto insurance companies are strongly urging the Florida Senate to pass the Motor Vehicle Insurance Affordability Act. Senate Bill 1202 has...
CDI Announces Recent Fraud Developments
Apr 25 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud and Investigation Divisions announced recent developments in the following fraud cases: * OAKLAND, CA – As a result of an on-going investigation...
Guilty Couple Sentenced in Fraud Scam
Apr 24 2003 // Nevada Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that District Court Judge John S. McGroarty sentenced Basheba and Cedric Peoples, both 35, of Las Vegas, for their reported involvement in an internal insurance fraud scheme...
Cerritos Broker Pleads Guilty to Theft Charges
Apr 22 2003 // An insurance broker, John Sik Lee, 32, of Cerritos, pled no-contest to two felony counts and one misdemeanor count of grand theft based on evidence gathered by California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators. The...
NYSID Announces Arrest of Former Insurance Salesman on Fraud Charges
Apr 21 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced that a joint investigation with the Suffolk County District Attorney’s Office has resulted in the arrest of Patrick Ferguson, 53, a former...
Calif. Public Works Ops Manager Arrested for WC Fraud
Apr 21 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division arrested Doyle E. Champlain, 45 of Orangevale, Calif., without incident on five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of attempted perjury. On...
Ariz. Man Indicted on Multiple Fraud Counts in Nev.
Apr 21 2003 // Nevada’s Clark County Grand Jury indicted Pavel Daniel Oprea, 37, on nine felony counts of insurance fraud including three counts each of the following: false application to insurer, false claim for insurance...
Calif. Man Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Apr 21 2003 // Samuel Tufino Machado, 22, also known as Salvador Castaneda, was arrested and booked into the Sacramento County Jail on two felony counts of insurance fraud with special allegations that the crimes were committed while he...
L.A. Residents Charged with WC Conspiracy
Apr 21 2003 // Ana Rosa Pena, 54, and Juan Pena, 65, were arrested in San Dimas, Calif. Rosa Pena was charged with one count of Preparing Fraudulent Documents, three counts of perjury, and one count of grand theft. Juan Pena was charged...
TEXAN MUST PAY FOR FRAUD
Apr 21 2003 // Jake V. Silva was found guilty of fraudulently obtaining workers’ compensation benefits by the 132nd District Court in Scurry County, Texas. He was sentenced to two years imprisonment (probated to five years on...
N.Y. Man Arrested for Fraudulently Reporting Auto Theft to Further Scheme
Apr 18 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Ricky DeSantis of Rochester, who was charged with insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny and falsifying business records. It is alleged that on...
Brooklyn Man Arrested for Selling Fraudulent Auto Insurance to Neighbor
Apr 17 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Raphael Benjamin of Brooklyn, New York, who was charged with insurance fraud, forgery, grand larceny and falsifying business records. It is alleged...
Florida Officials Ban Agent From Ins. Industry
Apr 17 2003 // A Lehigh Acres, Fla. insurance agent can no longer legally transact insurance in Florida after pleading guilty to charges of misappropriating insurance premiums. The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that...
N.J. Woman Pleads to Guilty to Forging Phony Prescriptions
Apr 16 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a Hudson County woman pled guilty to forging drug prescriptions as part of a reported scheme to obtain controlled drugs through the use of fraudulent...
Trio of N.J. Residents Charged with Receiving Stolen Cars, Fraud
Apr 14 2003 // New Jersey’s Acting Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that three North Jersey men have been charged via separate Passaic County Grand Jury indictments with conspiracy, receiving stolen property and theft by...
Progressive Seeks Damages Against Fla. Chiropractic Clinic for Fraud
Apr 14 2003 // Four Progressive Corp. subsidiaries have filed a civil suit against First Chiropractic Clinic of Orlando, First Chiropractic Clinic of Pine Hills and its principal, Mirlourdes Beliard-Hopkins, and chiropractors Jodie Ellis...
Former N.Y. Opticians Billing Clerk Arrested for Altering Benefit Forms
Apr 11 2003 // New York Superintendent Gregory Serio and Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne announced the arrest of Caroline Burr-McCann, 35, a former billing clerk for State Opticians who is charged with insurance fraud. An...
Staff of Florida Medical Clinic Charged With PIP Fraud
Apr 10 2003 // The Florida Department of Financial Services announced that a former Miami clinic owner and two of his medical staff were charged with fraudulently billing four insurance companies for treatments never...
Fla. Governor, Lt. Governor Announce Workers’ Comp Reform
Apr 9 2003 // Florida Governor Jeb Bush and Lt. Governor Toni Jennings announced comprehensive workers’ compensation reforms at a rally of Florida homebuilders at the state’s Capitol. At the rally, Bush commented that part...
