Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Truck Drivers Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 20 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the arrest of two truck drivers this week. Both cases are being prosecuted by the...
N.Y. Woman Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 19 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced the arrest of Garifalia Christea, 48, of Flushing, New York. She is charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud, falsifying business records and violation of the...
ISO, ALR Announce New System to Report Theft of High-Value Stolen Property by Insurers
Nov 19 2002 // The Art Loss Register (ALR) and Insurance Services Office, Inc. (ISO) announced an enhanced property-loss reporting system that will increase the efficiency of reporting the theft of high-value stolen property by...
Hacendia Heights, Calif. Man Pleads No Contest
Nov 18 2002 // On Nov. 13, 2002, as a result of a two-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Keith Aaron Hayes, 49, a resident of Hacienda Heights,...
Shreveport, La. Agent Shut Down
Nov 12 2002 // The Louisiana Department of Insurance Fraud Unit investigators served cease and desist and summary suspension orders to licensed insurance agent Tommy Ray Dean of Shreveport, the day after the department served a C&D...
Calif. Pair Sentenced in Insurance Premium Fraud Case
Nov 12 2002 // Two Sacramento area women pled guilty to charges of insurance fraud as a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Janet Mae Gudgel,...
Woman Charged with 40 Counts of Ins. Fraud, Theft, Arson
Nov 11 2002 // Marcia Johnson, 42 , of Alpine, Calif., recently pleaded not guilty to charges of insurance fraud, burglary, grand theft, theft from an elder and arson, in the case of a 71-year-old missing man, according to the Inland...
Antelope, Calif. Man Faces Auto Fraud Charges
Nov 11 2002 // Rafael Gonzalez, 30, of Antelope, was arrested by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division on two felony counts of insurance fraud. Gonzalez purportedly reported...
Convicted Sex Offender Arrested for five Counts of WC Fraud
Nov 11 2002 // Mario Moreno, 45, was arrested in Mariposa, Calif. and booked into the Mariposa County Jail on a $250,000 bail felony warrant. The criminal investigation conducted by CDI’s Inland Empire Regional Office revealed that...
Utah Resident Gets Six Months for WC Fraud
Nov 8 2002 // Ogden, Utah resident Robert Paul Martinez, 30, was recently sentenced to 180 days in jail for insurance fraud. Second District Court Judge Ernie W. Jones sentenced Martinez Oct. 16, 2002, on charges of workers’...
L.A. Woman Arrested on Ins Fraud, Perjury and False Impersonation
Nov 8 2002 // A Los Angeles resident was arrested in North Hollywood on Nov. 1, as the result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Nvart Rose Semizyan...
Ballard Sues Farmers Over Accusations
Nov 6 2002 // Austin, Texas-based homeowner advocate, Melinda Ballard, announced she filed a lawsuit in Travis County District Court against Farmers Insurance (Farmers) and its paid spokesman for falsely accusing her of committing...
Former Miami Policeman Charged With Buying Accident Reports
Nov 5 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that a former City of Miami police officer is facing numerous felony charges after he allegedly bought more than 280 police accident reports for $25 each...
Fla. Construction Co. Head Charged with Fraud
Nov 4 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance announced that the president of Megen Corporation is facing charges of insurance fraud, forgery, and uttering forged documents stemming from the underwriting of a construction surety...
N.C. Residents Arrested in Fraud Case
Nov 4 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long and Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin announced that Darryl Edward Billings and Jennifer Lyn Billings of North Wilkesboro were arrested recently on charges of Obtaining...
Identity Fraud Expense Coverage Seminar Accessible Via Online Recording
Nov 4 2002 // Property/casualty professionals can learn about coverage for identity fraud expenses by accessing an online recording of a Web seminar on the topic, held recently by the American Association of Insurance Services...
Dental Assistant Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 4 2002 // In the evening of Oct. 30, 2002, California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division Investigators and Windsor Police Officers arrested Judith Lee Marciel (AKA Judith Lee Delgado, Judith Lee Douglas, Judith Lee Latch,...
Trio Arrested for Reported Involvement in Calif. Auto Fraud Scam
Nov 1 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Organized Auto Fraud Interdiction Task Force arrested a Rio Linda woman, along with her former common-law husband and his brother-in-law on multiple charges...
W. Va. Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Oct 30 2002 // Peggy Ann Cox of West Virginia has pled guilty in federal court on two counts of fraud. According to The Charleston Gazette, Cox made the plea to Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II, admitting that between December...
ISO Introduces New Identity-Theft Expense Coverage
Oct 28 2002 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has introduced a new optional endorsement under its Homeowners 2000 program that insurers can offer homeowners and other consumers to protect themselves against the growing crime of...
