Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Copper Thefts Knock 3 Arkansas Radio Stations Off Air
Sep 19 2018 // Three Jonesboro, Arkansas, radio stations are back on the air after copper thieves disrupted operations and damaged the transmitter building and a backup generator. The outages affecting East Arkansas Broadcasters stations...
Top 10 Stolen Vehicles: Older Models Most Vulnerable
Sep 18 2018 // Hondas that are 10 and 11-years old and even older Ford and Chevrolet pick-ups top the list of the most stolen vehicles in the U.S. in 2017. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released its annual Hot Wheels report,...
Survey Finds Cyber Crimes Cost German Businesses $50 Billion
Sep 14 2018 // Two thirds of Germany’s manufacturers have been hit by cyber-crime attacks, costing industry in Europe’s largest economy some 43 billion euros ($50 billion), according to a survey published by Germany’s...
Michigan Insurance Department Getting New Anti-Fraud Unit
Sep 13 2018 // Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder has formed a new division to investigate fraud within the auto insurance, health insurance and banking sectors. The anti-fraud unit will be housed within the Department of Insurance and Financial...
Rhode Island Woman Charged With Stealing Funds from Auto Dealer
Sep 12 2018 // A 45-year-old Rhode Island woman has been charged with forging business checks and stealing as much as $400,000 from a Cranston, R.I., auto dealership where she worked. Federal prosecutors say Michelle Saritelli of South...
Former California Agent Arrested for Allegedly Stealing And Misusing Consumer Information
Sep 11 2018 // Andrew Barcoma Go, 51, of Bellflower, Calif., was arrested on seven felony counts including six for identity theft and one for grand theft after allegedly falsifying information on insurance applications to steal over...
North Carolina Insurance Fraud Round-Up: August
Sep 10 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of August. Insurance fraud costs American consumers approximately $80 billion dollars a year. According to North...
Stolen From Minnesota Museum, Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers Recovered in Sting Op
Sep 6 2018 // A pair of ruby slippers used in “The Wizard of Oz” and later stolen from a Minnesota museum were recovered in a sting operation after a man approached the shoes’ insurer and said he could help get them...
Florida Insurance Chief Warns of AOB Scams as Storm Gordon Lingers Over Gulf Coast
Sep 5 2018 // Florida’s top insurance regulator has issued a warning to residents facing damage from Tropical Storm Gordon, the first major storm to impact the state in the 2018 Hurricane Season. Florida Insurance Commissioner...
Kansas Insurance Agent Accused of $108K Fraud Scheme
Sep 4 2018 // The Kansas Insurance Department (KID) has issued an emergency license suspension for a Smith Center, Kansas, insurance agent following an investigation of a complaint from an insurance company. Trisha A. Wiehl’s...
Former Illinois Insurance Broker Sentenced to Prison, Must Repay Nearly $1M
Sep 3 2018 // The former owner of multiple property/casualty insurance operations in northern Illinois has been sentenced to more than four years in prison and ordered to pay nearly $1 million in restitution for insurance fraud. U.S....
Texan Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Aug 27 2018 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court has sentenced Christopher Colligan of Baytown on workers’ compensation fraud charges. The company said Colligan reported a job-related...
Allstate to Acquire Identity Theft Protection Firm InfoArmor
Aug 27 2018 // The Allstate Corp. has agreed to acquire InfoArmor, a provider of employee identity protection, for $525 million in cash. The insurer said it sees “significant opportunity to cross sell” the new product through...
Former Jacksonville Jaguar Player Arrested in $78K Insurance Fraud Scheme
Aug 23 2018 // Former Jacksonville Jaguars NFL player and assistant coach Marlon Tarron McCree has been arrested for insurance fraud totaling nearly $78,000, according to a statement from Florida Chief Financial Officer (CFO) Jimmy...
FBI Seeks Help to Find Art Depicting Old West Stolen from New York City Home
Aug 21 2018 // The FBI is seeking the public’s help in rounding up more than a half-million dollars’ worth of artworks that were stolen in 1983 from the New York City home of an artist known for his scenes of the American...
Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud, Ohio Home Remodeler Must Repay $255K
Aug 21 2018 // The owner of a residential construction business in Dayton who under reported his payroll by millions of dollars to lower his workers’ comp premiums has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud, the Ohio...
Texas Workers’ Comp Fraudster Sentenced for Double Dipping
Aug 21 2018 // A Travis County, Texas district court has sentenced Gary Hunt of Austin on workers’ compensation fraud charges. Hunt reported a job-related injury while working as a sales coach for Radiant Plumbing Service Inc., and...
Pennsylvania Warns Consumers, Insurers About Rising National Auto Theft Rates
Aug 20 2018 // Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner Jessica Altman has reminded drivers to take precautions to prevent auto theft, as a recent report shows the rate of car theft nationally rose by more than four percent in the first half...
Construction Company Indicted for Wage Theft, Insurance Fraud in New York
Aug 20 2018 // CRV Precast Construction LLC (CRV) and six of its employees have been indicted for misclassifying workers as lesser-skilled, underpaying them and falsifying information about payroll and employees, including a worker who...
North Carolina Insurance Fraud Round-Up
Aug 20 2018 // The North Carolina Department of Insurance announced multiple fraud enforcement actions during the month of July. Details of the incidents, as reported by NCDOI, are as follows: Monroe Man Charged with Fraud Gary Miller of...
