Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NYSID Annual Fraud Report Shows Progress
Jan 17 2003 // New York State Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio has submitted the NYSID’s Annual Report on the operations of the Insurance Frauds Prevention Act and the activities of the Insurance Frauds Bureau for...
Florida Insurers Present Senate Committee with PIP Fixes
Jan 14 2003 // Representatives of the Florida insurance industry, including the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), outlined to a Senate committee an all-inclusive package of reforms designed to address the state’s...
PIANY Tells NY Legislators of Need for Auto and Labor Law Reform
Jan 14 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York held its first legislative meeting of the year last Thursday, and addressed two major issues on which they want members of the Senate and Assembly to take action during the...
Ariz. Fraud Suspect Arrested for Witness Tampering
Jan 13 2003 // On Dec. 13, 2002, James Kovacs was arrested in Tucson, Ariz. on an outstanding warrant charging him with witness tampering. The Pima County Fugitive Task Force arrested Kovacs who is now awaiting trial in Santa Cruz County...
Calif. Pair Arrested on Felony Ins Fraud
Jan 13 2003 // Two Stanislaus County men were arrested on felony insurance fraud charges following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance, Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Robert L. Pritchett,...
To Catch a Thief-State DOI’s Work Hard to Keep Agents in Line
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
New Year…New Fraud Scams…New Fraud Solutions
Jan 13 2003 // Most people wake up on New Year’s Day and make a resolution: lose weight, exercise more, spend more time doing the things you enjoy. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) woke up on New Year’s Day 2003...
Fraud, Leaving its Prints on the Industry
Jan 13 2003 // Fraud, in all forms, is as old as the industry itself. Given a struggling economy, the temptation to create fraud against or within the industry has been on the upswing recently. According to Jim Quiggle, director of...
To Catch a Thief-State DOI’s Work Hard to Keep Agents in Line
Jan 13 2003 // A quick browse through the Web sites of state insurance commissioners across the country on any given day in any given year, is bound to turn up at least one account of regulators cracking down on an insurance agent for a...
New Year…New Fraud Scams…New Fraud Solutions
Jan 13 2003 // Most people wake up on New Year’s Day and make a resolution: lose weight, exercise more, spend more time doing the things you enjoy. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) woke up on New Year’s Day 2003...
Stiff Sentences Imposed in Cicero Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 10 2003 // Federal Judge John Grady has delivered stiff sentences on the convicted perpetrators of a $12 million insurance fraud scheme in Cicero. Reputed local mob boss Michael Spano Sr., whom prosecutors charged with masterminding...
Calif. Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 9 2003 // Ralph Taeger, 66, of Placerville, Calif. was arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud on Jan. 2, 2003. Taeger surrendered to California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators and was booked into the El...
3 ½ Year Sentence for Woman in Cicero Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 7 2003 // Bonnie LaGiglio, who was found guilty of tax fraud after other charges were dismissed for lack of evidence, was ordered to serve a 3 ½ year term in federal prison for her part in the insurance fraud that bilked Cicero...
Body Shop Owner & Accomplice Arrested for Fraud, Grand Theft
Jan 6 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of Mike I. Masarweh, 36, owner of All Pro Mechanicx, a San Francisco auto repair...
Calif. Man Surrenders on Fraud Charges
Dec 31 2002 // A Lodi, Calif. man was arrested on numerous felony charges as a result of a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, the San Joaquin County...
Ohio Ins. Dept. to Revoke Agent Licenses for Alleged Fraudulent Investment Schemes
Dec 26 2002 // Holly Saelens, the interim director of the Ohio Department of Insurance (ODI), has notified Powell securities dealer Vernon W. Shiflett and associate Paul L. Edwards, an insurance agent from Marion, of the...
Nine More Indicted in Nev. Fraud Scam
Dec 24 2002 // The Clark County Grand Jury has indicted the nine remaining defendants in the Guy Mitchell Sheets fraud case (See IJ West Web News, Dec. 19): Terri Denise Bragg, Rodney Bernard Winters, Basheba Peoples, Cedric Peoples,...
N.Y. Men Face Insurance Fraud, Other Charges
Dec 23 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Michael McGuire, Mark Marrelli, and Glen Marelli of Erie, N.Y. have been charged with arson, insurance fraud, attempted grand larceny, and criminal...
El Dorado Hills, Calif. Resident Arrested for WC Fraud
Dec 23 2002 // An El Dorado Hills, Calif. resident was arrested as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Charles David Littlejohn, 46, AKA Charles...
