Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Allstate Adjustor Found Guilty in Fraud Conspiracy
Feb 14 2003 // An insurance adjustor who allegedly defrauded Allstate Insurance Company and several Allstate-insured homeowners who suffered damages during the 1994 Northridge earthquake was recently convicted of federal fraud...
Fla. Construction Owner Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 14 2003 // A Brevard County, Fla., construction company owner has been charged with workers’ compensation insurance fraud after investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services made an unannounced visit to one of...
Soda Delivery Driver Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 14 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Travis County District Court judge ordered Villesca to submit to three years of community...
Florida Roofing Co. Owners Face Fraud Charges
Feb 11 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that the owners of an Orange County roofing company were arrested for workers’ compensation fraud and organized fraud. Investigators with the...
Woman Arraigned for WC Fraud
Feb 10 2003 // Emilia Sanchez, 37, was arraigned on workers’ compensation fraud charges in November, according to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. The...
Two Men Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges
Feb 10 2003 // Two San Fernando Valley, Calif. residents, Timothy Caffery, 24, and Jose David Duarte, 22, pled guilty to insurance fraud charges as a result of a four-month investigation by the CDI Urban Auto Fraud Task Force. The two...
CDI Busts Up Fraudulent Auto Scheme
Feb 10 2003 // CDI Fraud Division Investigators arrested four individuals after executing search warrants at their homes and an auto body repair shop located in Oakland. California residents Art Mercado, 56, of Alameda, Scott Carey, 31,...
Warsaw NY Woman Receives Prison Sentence for Arson Insurance Fraud
Feb 6 2003 // The NYSID announced that Victoria Walczak, of Warsaw, New York, has received a 2 to 6 year prison sentence from the Genesee County Court for arson. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $32,943.57 to two...
Calif. Nurse’s Technician Pleads Guilty to WC Fraud
Feb 5 2003 // Marsha Arlene Johnson, a 47-year-old resident of Inglewood, Calif., pleaded guilty to a felony charge of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Johnson was ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $28,861.77,...
Louisiana Agent Booked on Multiple Charges
Feb 4 2003 // Acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley confirmed that a Monroe, La. insurance agent was arrested as a part of an ongoing statewide crackdown on insurance fraud being conducted by the La. Department of...
Rochester Man Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud
Feb 4 2003 // Anthony Allen was sentenced to serve a term of two to four years in New York State Prison by Judge Patricia Marks in Monroe County Court, as a second felony offender, following his guilty plea on November 6, 2002 to...
Ariz. DOI Makes Arrests in Ariz./Calif. Auto Fraud Scheme
Jan 31 2003 // The Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit assisted the Phoenix Police Department’s Fugitive Apprehension and Investigations Detail in arresting Juan Reyes Marrufo, 35, Maricela Armenta, 34, and Cristina...
CDS Business Mapping Adds Crime Scores to the RiskMeter Online
Jan 31 2003 // CDS Business Mapping, a provider in online hazard mapping, has added crime scores to the RiskMeter Online (www.riskmeter.com). The scores use predictive modeling technology to estimate the risk of crime for any location in...
NAII Files Amicus Brief in Ill. Upholding Validity of Appraisal Clause in Claims
Jan 31 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) filed an amicus brief this week with the Illinois Supreme Court to dispute an attempt by the Illinois trial bar to regulate the insurance industry in the...
CDI Arrests 15 Suspects in Interstate Crime Ring
Jan 29 2003 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced Jan. 28 that it recently led a multi-agency law enforcement fraud investigation that resulted in the arrests of 15 individuals. The arrests by CDI’s Urban Auto...
Illinois Exec. Sentenced for Fraud Scheme
Jan 29 2003 // A trucking executive convicted in federal court for defrauding the town of Cicero, Ill., of $12 million-plus in an insurance scheme was sentenced to more than 12½ years in prison, according to the Chicago Tribune. John...
Over 900 Fraud Cases Reported in S.C. in 2002
Jan 27 2003 // Courts in South Carolina ordered nearly $168,000 in fines and restitution to be paid in 2002, the result of the 914 cases of insurance fraud that were reported to Office of the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud...
CDI Makes Developments in Fraud Cases
Jan 27 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch announced these recent developments in insurance fraud cases: CDI investigators in conjunction with the Citrus Heights Police...
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Jan 27 2003 // Gerald Boiner, 30, of Rancho Cuca-monga, Calif., was arrested Nov. 12, 2002 by CDI Fraud Investigators. Boiner alleged that he injured his back and wrist on Aug. 7, 2001, from an on-the-job fall. As a result of the pain he...
Former Adjuster Pleads Guilty To Mail Fraud
Jan 24 2003 // An insurance adjuster faces a maximum sentence of five years and a $250,000 fine after pleading guilty to mail fraud in U.S. District Court in Lexington, Ky. According to the Lexington Herald-Leader, Wail J. Lodhi of...
