Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NAIC Submits Legislative Proposal to Combat Insurance Fraud
Sep 27 2000 // The National Association of Insurance Commissioners has submitted proposed legislation to grant state insurance regulators access to the FBI’s National Crime Information Center database. The NAIC made the request in...
No More Waiting for This Ringleader
Sep 18 2000 // On Aug. 29, former attorney Manny Lee Kreitenberg of Beverly Hills was sentenced to 10 years in state prison on one felony count of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and 13 counts of insurance fraud. In addition, the...
Office Run by a Mis-Manager
Sep 18 2000 // Kathleen C. Ridgway, a Beverly Hills office manager, was arrested at work on Aug. 7 on one felony count of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. The L.A. County District Attorney’s office is prosecuting the...
Connecticut Department Launches Public Service Campaign
Sep 14 2000 // Insurance fraud has a major impact on Connecticut consumers and businesses – to the tune of an estimated $1.9 billion annually. Health care scams, the most lucrative and most difficult to detect type of fraud, are...
San Jose Couple Accused of Fraud Back in U.S.
Sep 13 2000 // After fleeing to the Caribbean eight months ago to avoid charges that they stole $10 million from insurance clients, a San Jose, Calif. couple appeared in court Tuesday for the first time and were ordered held on $10...
ABI Warns UK Business on Cybercrime
Sep 5 2000 // The Association of British Insurers (ABI) in a report entitled ” Future Crime Trends in the United Kingdom” warned the business community that it expected to see a rapid rise in Internet-based crimes,...
NICB and CPCU Society Unveil stopinsurancecheats.com
Sep 5 2000 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau and the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters Society, which have joined forces in a public awareness campaign to educate Americans about insurance fraud, today introduced a new...
AUTO FRAUD ON THE INTERNET
Sep 4 2000 // After becoming aware of a company selling fraudulent auto policies on the Internet, Connecticut Insurance Commissioner Susan F. Cogswell is warning car owners to double-check to ensure that companies are properly licensed...
Golden Eagle Helps Fight Fraud
Sep 4 2000 // After the special investigations unit (SIU) of Golden Eagle Insurance Corp. helped gather information, nearly two dozen people working at several San Diego-based construction companies face trials for insurance fraud,...
Judge Ito Sentences Ex-Attorney to 10 Years in State Prison
Aug 30 2000 // On Aug. 29, Former attorney Manny Lee Kreitenberg of Beverly Hills was sentenced to 10 years in state prison on one felony count of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud and 13 counts of insurance fraud. In addition,...
Seven Arrested In Bronx Insurance Fraud Sweep
Aug 22 2000 // Seven people, including a 67-year-old medical doctor, have been arrested and charged in connection with various unrelated schemes to commit insurance fraud amounting to nearly $271,000. The arrests are the culmination of a...
Allstate Files Suit Against New Jersey Fraud Ring
Aug 16 2000 // Allstate New Jersey Insurance Company filed its second lawsuit Tuesday in the ongoing investigation of a major staged automobile accident insurance fraud ring in Camden County, New Jersey. One hundred seventy-five...
Disiere Pleads Guilty in La. Fraud Case
Aug 14 2000 // A co-defendant of Edwin Edwards—the former governor convicted of extorting payoffs for casino licenses—has pleaded guilty and agreed to testify against Edwards in an insurance fraud case. David Disiere, a Dallas...
Their Deep Pockets Had Holes
Aug 7 2000 // Following a nine-month investigation, Mostafa Behesti, 43, and Rahimi Morteza, 59, owners of Castello Inc., along with bookkeeper Emma Luz Guerzon, 46, and Margaro Haro, 37, owner of Haro’s Landscaping, were all...
Framing a Case of Possible Fraud
Aug 7 2000 // The owners of a building framing company in Riverside pleaded innocent to charges of defrauding the state and three insurance companies out of $3.5 million. Thomas Parsons and his wife Michelle, both residents of Colton,...
Long Beach Insurance Agent’s License Revoked for Grand Theft
Aug 3 2000 // Former Interim Insurance Commissioner Clark Kelso, before leaving office, ordered the revocation of the license and licensing rights of a Long Beach insurance broker found guilty of six counts of grand theft of insurance...
Brooklyn Underwriter Arrested for Submitting Fraudulent Claims
Jul 27 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin said that Camille Sautner, 26, was arrested on various charges for defrauding Chubb Insurance Company out of $45,000. The arrest is the result of a joint investigation...
Lying, Cheating and Stealing
Jul 24 2000 // There are a number of sins to which those providing services for money are susceptible: product ignorance, market ignorance, administrative incompetence, disloyalty and betrayal, slothfulness, untruthfulness, and stealing....
ISO HELPS FIGHT FRAUD
Jul 24 2000 // The ability of insurance companies to detect fraudulent claims by cross-checking them in “all-claims” databases will become keener as insurers adopt new methods of reporting and coding claims, according to the...
New Format Increases Fraud Detection Abilities
Jul 12 2000 // The ability of insurance companies to detect fraudulent claims by cross-checking them in “all-claims” databases will become keener as insurers adopt new methods of reporting and coding claims, according to the...
