Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Ala. Commissioner Urges Passage of Fraud Bill
Mar 18 2003 // Acknowledging that his state has yet to enact strong measures to combat insurance fraud, Alabama Insurance Commissioner Walter A. Bell released the following statement in support of such anti-fraud...
Former NY Insurance Agent Arrested for Stealing Investment Money from Elderly Clients
Mar 14 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Ted F. Cook, 50, a former insurance agent formerly employed by Legend Equities Corporation on charges of fraud and grand larceny...
Calif. Public Works Ops Manager Arrested for WC Fraud
Mar 13 2003 // Doyle E. Champlain, 45, of Orangevale, Calif., was arrested without incident and booked into the Placer County Jail on five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of attempted perjury. If convicted,...
Fresno Man Arrested on WC Fraud
Mar 13 2003 // Richard Sharrah, Jr., 27, a Fresno, Calif. resident, was arrested on workers’ comp fraud charges. Investigators with CDI’s Fraud Division, charged him with four felony counts of insurance fraud. Investigators...
Miami Trio Charged with Passing Fake Crash Reports
Mar 12 2003 // Three Miami residents were arrested on grand theft and fraud charges stemming from allegations that they created fraudulent vehicle accident reports and passed them off to various clinics that billed insurance companies...
NYSID Announces Top 10 ‘Rotten Apples’ for 2002
Mar 12 2003 // Gregory V. Serio, the Superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, has announced the “Top 10 list of worst cases of insurance fraud in New York State during 2002.” The “winners” were...
Ariz. Man Indicted on Multiple Fraud Counts in Nev.
Mar 11 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
Mar 10 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...
PIANY Asks Sponsors to Drop Effort to “Roll Back” Key No-fault Reforms
Mar 10 2003 // While the NAII was fighting to uphold Regulation 68 against a legal challenge (See previous article), the Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. issued a letter to each sponsor of a bill, S.1277/A.269, which...
N.Y. Senate Passes Two Insurance Fraud Bills
Mar 10 2003 // At least the New York Senate seems to have heard the messages from the NAII and the PIANY. It passed two bills last week dealing with insurance fraud. The next hurdle will come when the state’s Assembly considers the...
NYSID Announces Arrest of Former Insurance Broker for Fraud
Mar 10 2003 // Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Fabian Illera, a former insurance broker, who was charged with insurance fraud, forgery, criminal possession of a forged instrument, falsifying business...
Arrests for Insurance Fraud and Grand Theft
Mar 10 2003 // Two men were arrested and charged with felony insurance fraud and grand theft after being investigated by the Special Investigation Unit within State Farm Insurance and the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud...
Broker Charged with Grand Theft
Mar 10 2003 // Judith Elizabeth Dominquez, 44, a former Huntington Park, Calif. insurance broker, appeared in Superior Court for arraignment following the filing of a felony complaint by the Huntington Park District Attorney’s...
Segal Sells Near North Brokerage; New Accusations Loom
Mar 10 2003 // February brought good news and bad news in the saga of Chicago-based Near North National Group owner Michael Segal. The good news: He found a buyer for his brokerage operations. The bad news: Federal prosecutors filed...
Truck Driver Charged in $78,500 Workers’ Comp Fraud
Mar 7 2003 // New York State Insurance Department Superintendent Gregory Serio, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown, and New York State Workers’ Compensation Fraud Inspector General John Burgher Jr., announced that a truck...
Atnip Pleads Guilty to Computer Fraud in Tenn.
Mar 6 2003 // Gary Atnip, a Tennessee accountant who allegedly helped funnel $18 million to financier Martin Frankel in an insurance fraud scheme, pleaded guilty in Tennessee Court to state charges of computer fraud. According to the...
N.Y. State Opticians Co-Owner Arrested on Fraud Charges
Mar 5 2003 // New York Superintendent Gregory Serio and Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne announced the arrest of Dierdre Wolberg, co-owner of State Opticians in Albany, N.Y. Wolberg was arrested for Grand Larceny in the 3rd...
White Collar Crime Seminar Comes to Chicago
Mar 5 2003 // A seminar in Chicago will examine the impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 on corporations, their officers, directors and employees, and insurance coverage. The seminar on white collar crime is hosted by DRI, a...
Calif. Commissioner Enlists Help of DAs to Reform WC System
Mar 5 2003 // Calif. Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi pushed his workers’ comp reform agenda further along by enlisting the help of the state’s 58 county district attorneys (DA) in combating employee and employer...
N.Y. Bake Shop Owner Arrested for Fraud
Mar 4 2003 // New York Superintendent Gregory Serio along with the Broome County Bureau of Fire Investigation and the Deposit Police Department announced the arrest of George S. Cushner, Jr. Cushner, the owner of Sweets and East Bake...
