Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Encinitas, Calif. Man Accused of WC Fraud and Grand Theft
Sep 30 2002 // James Charles Isbell, 38, of Encinitas, Calif., was charged with seven counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. According to investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI)Criminal...
Couple Arrested in Auto Fraud Scheme
Sep 30 2002 // Ricardo Ramirez, 25, and his wife Nicole Barlow, 23, both of Alta Loma, Calif., were recently arrested by CDI Investigators. Ramirez was arrested at a business location in Orange, Calif. and Barlow was arrested at her...
Texas Couple Facing Fraud Charges
Sep 27 2002 // Travis County District Attorney Ronald Earle announced that the Travis County Grand Jury returned indictments alleging that a Texas couple stole over $1 million from Colonial Casualty Insurance Company, a workers...
CDI Arrests, Charges Two in Felony Fraud Case
Sep 27 2002 // John Lee Sullivan, 50, of Applegate, Calif. and Debra Michell Sprigg, 42, of Sacramento were arrested and charged with two counts of felony insurance fraud. According to California Department of Insurance Criminal...
N.Y. Files Auto Fraud Charges Against 25 People
Sep 26 2002 // New York Attorney General Eliot Spitzer and Insurance Superintendent Gergory Serio announced charges have been filed against 25 people allegedly involved in two auto insurance fraud rings operating in New York...
SAFECO’s Seibert Elected to NICB Board of Governors
Sep 25 2002 // Caryn Siebert, Seattle-based SAFECO’s vice president of claims, has been elected to the National Insurance Crime Bureau’s (NICB) Board of Governors. “SAFECO has always been a major player in the fight...
Ambroselli Cleared in Alleged Fraud
Sep 25 2002 // In a follow-up to a report in Jan. of 2001, Marco Anthony Ambroselli of Sacramento was found not guilty of the crime of a violation of Section 500 (a) (1) of the Penal Code of the State of California, (presenting a false...
Chicago Dr. Who Made Claims for Dead Patients Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charges
Sep 23 2002 // Dr. Krishnaswami Sriram, 44, a cardiologist from Lake Forest pleaded guilty on Thursday to what prosecutors called a massive fraud scheme, admitting he claimed to have provided care for patients after they had died. The...
Santa Clara County, Calif. Crackdown on Fraud Results in Several Dozen Arrests
Sep 23 2002 // The Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RATTF), together with the Organized Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force, conducted a six-month undercover sting operation, “The Fast and the Fraudulent” resulting in felony...
Santa Maria, Calif. Man Arrested on Multiple Counts of Felony Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 17 2002 // Juan Antonio Acuna, 41, of Santa Maria, Calif. surrendered to authorities on Sept. 12, 2002, and was charged with seven felony counts of workers’ compensation insurance fraud, three counts of perjury, and one count...
Judge Dismisses J.P. Morgan Fraud Claim
Sep 17 2002 // A federal judge has dismissed J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s fraud claim levied against 11 insurers, possibly derailing the company’s attempt to gather approximately $1 billion in losses resulting in trade...
Fla. Investigators Bust Fraud Ring
Sep 16 2002 // Florida fraud investigators charged the owner of two Edgewood chiropractic clinics with organized fraud and grand theft, the result of an investigation into an alleged scheme to cheat insurance companies out of over $2...
Campbell vs. State Farm: U.S. Supreme Court May Resolve Issue
Sep 16 2002 // Outrageous! A travesty of Justice! Should be reversed! Both sides have probably said that at one time or another as the case of Campbell vs. State Farm worked it’s way through Utah’s court system, culminating...
Trio Charged with WC Fraud and Tax Evasion
Sep 16 2002 // Benito Storniolo, 44, Laura Storniolo, 40, and Angelo Cardarelli, 37, all of San Francisco, were arrested for workers’ compensation premium fraud and tax evasion as the result of an investigation by the California...
Woman Aided Clients in Fraud Scheme
Sep 16 2002 // The CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch announced the arrest of Margaret Lawanda Cook, 51, of El Sobrante, Calif. on eight counts of insurance fraud stemming from false workers’ comp and automobile...
Husband, Wife Charged with Auto Fraud
Sep 16 2002 // Hugo Tapia Lopez, 42, and his wife, Angelica Rivera, AKA Angelica Rivera Munoz, 45, of Arbuckle, Calif., were arrested and booked into the Colusa County Jail as the result of an investigation by the CDI’s Criminal...
Iowa Insurance Agent Ordered to Pay $332,000 in Investment Fraud Case
Sep 13 2002 // Iowa insurance agent Edwin Pace was ordered to reimburse $302,000 to investors, and $30,000 in commissions to the state, plus costs and attorney’s fees, following a court ruling that he had sold fraudulent...
Cicero Names New President After Insurance Fraud Convictions
Sep 12 2002 // Cicero’s Board of Trustees named Ramiro Gonzalez as the new town President, to serve out the remaining term of Betty Loren-Maltese, following her conviction as part of a ring that bilked the city of around $12...
Texas Man Gets Time for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 10 2002 // James Webb of Houston was sentenced to 18 months in state jail by the Travis County, Texas, District Court for allegedly defrauding the workers’ compensation system by collecting workers’ comp benefits for...
Mass. Fraud Bureau to Host Claims Fraud Conference
Sep 9 2002 // The Insurance Fraud Bureau of Massachusetts will host a conference Nov. 7-8 to discuss new technologies and techniques used to prevent insurance claim fraud. Entitled “Insurance Claim Fraud: Developing the Models and...
