Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Kentucky Woman Gets 5 Years, Ordered to Pay $1.6M for Crop Insurance Fraud
Nov 16 2018 // A Kentucky woman was sentenced to five years in prison and ordered to pay $1.6 million in restitution for crop insurance fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office in Lexington said 63-year-old Debra Muse of the Wallingford...
Awareness Campaign Aims to Curb Auto Burglaries/Thefts in Texas
Nov 13 2018 // More than 200,000 vehicles were burglarized last year in Texas, the Insurance Council of Texas reports. According to the Texas Department of Public Safety, the value loss from both auto thefts and burglaries in the state...
New York Man Charged With More Than $15K in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 13 2018 // A New York man has been arrested on charges that he defrauded the workers’ compensation system by claiming he was out of work due to an injury while continuing to work at his family business. Jeffrey Smalt of Bath,...
Pennsylvania Charges 60 Individuals in Statewide Insurance Fraud Sweep
Nov 8 2018 // Criminal charges have been announced against 60 Pennsylvanians following investigations by the Attorney General’s Insurance Fraud Section. As a result, 23 people were charged in Eastern Pennsylvania, 10 in Central...
Former California Insurance Agent Arraigned on 40 Felony Grand Theft Counts
Nov 6 2018 // Anna Gabriela Garcia, 46, of Capistrano Beach, Calif., was arraigned and charged with 40 felony counts of grand theft after allegedly collecting premium payments from customers and diverting the funds of over $195,000 for...
Michigan Fines Agent $25K, Revokes License in Auto Insurance Fraud Case
Nov 6 2018 // A Michigan agent has been fined $25,000 and had his insurance license revoked after an investigation revealed he had been creating and selling fake auto insurance certificates, the state’s insurance regulators...
Rhode Island Agent Who Offers Equine Insurance Faces Fraud Charges
Nov 5 2018 // A Rhode Island insurance agent who prosecutors say specializes in providing insurance on horses has been arrested on federal charges. The U.S. Attorney’s office in Providence says 57-year-old Randall Levesque, of...
Regulators, Industry Seek to Keep Florida AOB Abuse in Check After Michael
Nov 5 2018 // In an effort to keep the Florida assignment of benefits (AOB) crisis from further worsening in the state, Florida’s insurance industry, regulators and consumer advocates are on high alert for AOB activity in the wake...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison
Nov 5 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
Pro-Brexit Groups, UK Insurance Businessman Banks Probed by Crime Agency
Nov 2 2018 // Donations made by pro-Brexit groups including Arron Banks’ Leave.EU will be investigated by police after the Electoral Commission said they may have “knowingly concealed” the true source of 8 million...
Criminal Investigation of NiSource Launched Over Massachusetts Gas Explosions
Nov 2 2018 // Federal prosecutors have launched a criminal investigation of utility company NiSource Inc over gas explosions and fires in three Massachusetts communities that killed one person and injured at least 21 others in...
Texas Nurse Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 1 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Kaydra Moore of Cedar Hill, Texas. on workers’ compensation fraud charges. The court sentenced Moore to a Class A misdemeanor with...
N.J. Woman Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud in Used Luxury Vehicle Theft Scheme
Nov 1 2018 // A New Jersey woman has pleaded guilty to fraudulently obtaining insurance identification cards as part of a scheme to steal luxury used vehicles from dealerships in New Jersey and New York. Paige Hunt, 27, of Bloomfield,...
2 Charged With Selling Fake Insurance in Michigan
Oct 30 2018 // Two people in Michigan face felony charges filed by the state’s attorney general for allegedly selling fraudulent insurance to customers. The charges are the result a joint investigation by the Child, Elder, and...
Florida Fraud Strike Team Targets Unlicensed Contractors in Panhandle
Oct 30 2018 // Three contractors conducting business in Leon, Gadsden, and Gulf counties have been removed from the Panhandle by the Florida Department of Financial Services’ Disaster Fraud Action Strike Team for unlicensed...
New York AG ‘Puts Up,’ Sues Exxon Over Climate Change Disclosures
Oct 25 2018 // Lawyers for Exxon Mobil Corp. stood before a New York judge in August and told the state’s attorney general to “put up or shut up” after spending three years investigating the company’s public...
Regulators, Industry Seek to Keep Florida AOB Abuse In Check After Michael
Oct 18 2018 // Haley Nelson inspects damages to her family properties in the Panama City, Fla., spring field area after Hurricane Michael made landfall in Florida’s Panhandle on Wednesday, Oct. 10, 2018. (Pedro Portal/Miami Herald...
WCIRB Studied Impact of Medical Fraud Enforcement in California
Oct 17 2018 // The Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau of California has released a study that shows the impact of medical provider fraud on the system, and it finds that efforts by the state as well as local district...
Texas Pilot Who Crashed Plane for Insurance Sentenced to Prison for Fraud Scheme
Oct 17 2018 // A 33-year-old pilot, formerly of Kemah, Texas, was sentenced in early October to more than five years in prison and ordered to repay nearly $1 million in an insurance fraud-related case. Theodore Robert Wright III...
New York Contractor Pleads Guilty to $800K Business Fraud Scheme
Oct 15 2018 // State officials say an Albany-area contractor has pleaded guilty to scamming hundreds of thousands of dollars out of minority-owned businesses and failing to pay dozens of his employees. Attorney General Barbara Underwood...
