Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Journal Southeast’s Top Stories for 2018: Fraud, Hurricanes, Data Security Law
Dec 31 2018 // It was a busy year in the Southeast with two major hurricanes that wreaked havoc on the region, an escalating insurance crisis in Florida, and a new industry-specific cybersecurity law in South Carolina that takes effect...
Alleging Fraud, Minnesota AG Swanson Sues Comcast
Dec 28 2018 // Minnesota’s attorney general sued Comcast/Xfinity on Dec. 21, alleging that the company has overcharged thousands of consumers for cable TV packages, charged them for unordered equipment and services, and failed to...
Texas Lawyer Indicted for Allegedly Fraudulent Hail Claim Lawsuits
Dec 28 2018 // A Galveston, Texas, attorney is facing felony charges of insurance fraud, barratry, and money laundering related to several fraudulent hail claim lawsuits, the Texas Department of Insurance announced. Christopher Bertini...
Florida Man Gets 8 Years for Hurricane Irma Fraud
Dec 21 2018 // A Florida man has been sentenced to eight years in prison for taking advantage of people who suffered property damage last year during Hurricane Irma. Collier County prosecutors says 44-year-old Daniel Lawrence Ohleyer was...
New Jersey Man Charged in Alleged $17K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 20 2018 // A New Jersey man has been charged with insurance fraud and theft by deception in an alleged scheme to collect $17,048 in temporary total disability payment from his insurance company. Ramdeo Ramsaran, of Teaneck, N.J., was...
Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame Inducts 9 Scammers
Dec 17 2018 // The Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame has inducted nine new members. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a group of insurance, consumers and government organizations, reported the following inductees: Burning desire. Two...
Chiropractor in California Pleads Guilty in $150M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 17 2018 // A Los Angeles, Calif., chiropractor has pleaded guilty to taking part in a $150 million workers’ compensation fraud scheme. Paul Turley of Granada Hills pleaded in early December to conspiracy to commit insurance...
Chicago Doctor Convicted for Fraudulently Billing Insurers for Non-Performed Services
Dec 17 2018 // A federal jury has convicted a Chicago doctor on fraud charges for billing insurance companies for purported chiropractic manipulations that were never performed, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District...
Southwest Ohio Business Owner Convicted of $425K Workers’ Comp Fraud Gets Prison Time
Dec 17 2018 // A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a now-defunct southwest Ohio payroll services company to six months in federal prison and a $10,000 fine after being found guilty of workers’ compensation insurance...
Rhode Island Equine Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty in $1.3M Fraud Scheme
Dec 13 2018 // A Rhode Island insurance agent and agency owner who specializes in providing equine insurance coverage has admitted to operating schemes which defrauded customers, insurance companies and finance companies of approximately...
Ohio Business Owner Sentenced to Prison for $425K Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 11 2018 // A federal judge has sentenced the owner of a now-defunct southwest Ohio payroll services company to six months in federal prison and a $10,000 fine after being found guilty of workers’ compensation insurance...
Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame Inducts 9 Scammers
Dec 11 2018 // The Insurance Fraud Hall of Shame has inducted nine new members. The Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a group of insurance, consumers and government organizations, reported the following inductees: Burning desire. Two...
Miami Man Arrested in $60K Trucking Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 11 2018 // A South Florida trucking company owner was arrested last month after allegedly selling fraudulent insurance coverage with certificates of insurance totaling nearly $60,000 to local commercial truckers, according to a...
Chiropractor in California Pleads Guilty in $150M Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Dec 10 2018 // A Los Angeles, Calif. chiropractor has pleaded guilty to taking part in a $150 million workers’ compensation fraud scheme. Paul Turley of Granada Hills pleaded last week to conspiracy to commit insurance fraud,...
Manhattan Man Convicted in Two Identity Theft Schemes
Dec 7 2018 // A Manhattan man has been convicted of engaging in two separate identity theft schemes between 2013 and 2014 and has been sentenced to seven-and-a-half to 15 years in state prison. An investigation by New York Attorney...
Florida Fraud Strike Team Arrests Unlicensed Contractor in Panhandle
Dec 6 2018 // An unlicensed contractor operating in the Florida Panhandle has been arrested by the Florida Disaster Fraud Action Strike Force (DFAST) for allegedly conducting roofing repairs following Hurricane Michael, according to a...
Fraud Forces Minnesota Agribusiness Giant CHS to Lower 5 Years of Profit
Dec 5 2018 // Inver Grove Heights, Minnesota-based CHS Inc. has lowered five years of profits by nearly $158 million as the global grain, energy and food company recovers after a freight trader falsified records. The farmer-owned...
Chicago Doctor Convicted on Charges of Billing Insurers for Nonexistent Treatment
Dec 4 2018 // A federal jury has convicted a Chicago doctor on fraud charges for billing insurance companies for purported chiropractic manipulations that were never performed, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District...
New Jersey Man Pleads Guilty in $74K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Dec 4 2018 // An Essex County, N.J., man has pleaded guilty in a scheme to obtain $74,000 in disability payments by submitting dozens of forged documents to his insurance provider. Major Smith, a former teacher in the East Orange school...
$5K Reward Offered for Guns Stolen From Georgia Firearms Store
Dec 4 2018 // The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives and the National Shooting Sports Foundation are offering a $5,000 reward for information about guns stolen from a Georgia store. The Atlanta Journal-Constitution...
