Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NAIC DEBATES FRAUD PROVISION
Aug 13 2001 // On behalf of the nation’s insurance commissioners, NAIC President and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Kathleen Sebelius is urging Congress to remove a provision from HR 1408, the Financial Services Antifraud Network...
‘Operation Backlash’ Cracks the Whip on Fraud
Aug 13 2001 // The CDI Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division announced the conclusion of a 10-month operation, which resulted in a multi-agency task force serving search warrants on Whiplash Performance Center Inc. and...
CDI Continues Probe of Alleged Taxicab Fraud
Aug 13 2001 // In the current commercial auto arena, one of the toughest risks to place is taxicabs. Given that, it is not surprising that certain entities might be attracted to the prospect of luring the gullible or less vigilant by...
NAII Says Legislative Inaction Threatens Insurance Market; No-Fault Fraud Still Rampant August 10,
Aug 10 2001 // According to the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), rather than address the rampant no-fault fraud that costs New York consumers over a billion dollars each year, the legislature yesterday allowed several...
Gunmakers Can’t Be Sued for Criminal Acts of Gun Buyers
Aug 9 2001 // Victims cannot sue gunmakers when criminals use their products illegally, the California Supreme Court ruled Aug. 6. According to AP Online, the 5-1 decision, which rejects a suit based on the 1993 massacre of eight people...
Orange County Resident Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Aug 8 2001 // As a result of an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division, an Orange County resident plead guilty in Orange County Superior Court to one felony count of insurance fraud. Raymond Ellis...
New Funds Enable Insurance Department to Expand Prevention, Reporting Efforts
Aug 1 2001 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner M. Diane Koken announced expanded fraud-combating efforts supported by a recently received grant award. Commissioner Koken said the department recently received a two-year Pennsylvania...
Attorney General Indicts Baltimore Man on Insurance Fraud Charges
Jul 31 2001 // Maryland Attorney General J. Joseph Curran Jr., announced the filing of criminal insurance fraud charges against Lewis Mulitz, president of PICO Industries of Baltimore. In a three count criminal indictment filed in the...
CDI Investigators Make Fraud Arrest
Jul 31 2001 // California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigators arrested a San Bernardino man on July 26 and charged him with two felony counts of insurance fraud. Tom Davido, 56, was booked into Riverside County Jail and...
Yuba City Man Arrested on Charges of Insurance Fraud
Jul 30 2001 // Investigators from the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Yuba City man on seven felony counts of insurance fraud, grand theft and attempted grand...
Statewide Sweep Investigates Alleged Taxicab Insurance Fraud in Calif.
Jul 27 2001 // An article in the Contra Costa Times reported that California state investigators last week searched three brokers in the East Bay area, including Arvind Insurance Services in Richmond, to check allegations of fraud by...
Insurance Fraud Bureaus: Convictions Double, But Gains are Fragile
Jul 27 2001 // State insurance fraud bureaus have doubled their criminal convictions for scams since 1995, but many states remain ill-equipped to combat a crime wave that’s increasingly dominated by organized crime rings, says a...
Three Modesto Residents Arrested for Staged Auto Insurance Fraud
Jul 25 2001 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested three Modesto residents on charges of insurance fraud. Johnny B. Slefo, 42, Wylet G. Slefo, 42...
Calif. Correctional Officer Arrested on Two Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 24 2001 // A California Department of Corrections Correctional Officer surrendered to a Riverside Court last week on two felony charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. The suspect allegedly failed to notify his...
Dallas Janitorial Company Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 23 2001 // AM-KO Inc., a janitorial company providing services for the City of Dallas, entered a plea of “no contest” to a third degree felony for defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund (Texas...
Texas Farmers Plead Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud
Jul 23 2001 // Three Nolan County, Texas, farmers pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court July 12 to filing over $540,000 in fraudulent crop insurance claims with the federal government. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the...
Orange County Man Charged With Fraud
Jul 19 2001 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Raymond Ellis Wilson, Orange County, Calif., was charged with four felony counts of insurance fraud and booked into an Orange County Central jail last week, and bail...
CDI Arrests Fresno Couple on Charges of Insurance Fraud
Jul 13 2001 // A pair of Fresno, Calif., residents were arrested following a 10-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and several other task forces,...
NAII Says Calif. Bill Would Hinder Fraud-Fighting Tactics
Jul 10 2001 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) announced that the California Assembly Insurance Committee on July 11 will hold a hearing to debate legislation that would impede insurer efforts to investigate...
RI Chiropractor Loses License For Insurance Fraud
Jul 9 2001 // Rhode Island’s Medical Disciplinary Board has revoked Chiropractor Andrew J. Lombardi’s license to practice in the State following an indictment in Massachusetts alleging that that he had submitted 39...
