Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Rhode Island Chiropractic Office Sued for Alleged Insurance Fraud Scheme
Feb 8 2017 // An insurance company is suing a Providence, R.I., chiropractic office, alleging its owner falsified medical records to boost insurance claims and paid kickbacks to personal injury lawyers who referred clients. The...
40 Suspects Are Part of Family Auto Fraud Ring in California
Feb 7 2017 // California Department of Insurance detectives and investigators with the Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force today arrested seven suspects, charged an additional 22 who are self-surrendering, and are still seeking 11 more...
Lawyers: Iowa Hospital Sued Over Pain Medication Thefts
Feb 7 2017 // Attorneys for nine patients have filed a lawsuit against Iowa Methodist Medical Center, blaming the hospital for a pharmacy tech’s theft of potent painkillers from hundreds of vials. The lawsuit accuses the hospital...
Auto Insurance Fraud Ring in California Busted
Feb 3 2017 // The San Diego County District Attorney’s Office and California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones announced a major auto insurance fraud ring takedown, which was operating in San Diego County. Nine defendants were...
104 Arrested in South Florida in $60M Identity Theft Ring
Feb 3 2017 // Federal authorities have charged 104 people with numerous identity theft and fraud offenses in the latest South Florida crackdown on a rampant problem involving tens of thousands of stolen personal identities. The charges...
More Than 50 Guns Stolen from North Carolina Gun Show
Feb 2 2017 // Police in Greensboro, N.C., say more than 50 guns were stolen from a gun show over the weekend. Police said in a release Monday security guards reported the theft Sunday before the Greensboro Gun and Knife Show...
Woman Sentenced to 4 Years for Stealing $700K from Connecticut Company
Jan 25 2017 // A former employee of a Connecticut real estate management and development business has been sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than $700,000 from the company. Federal prosecutors say 50-year-old Debra...
Ohio Woman Sentenced, Must Repay $21K in Insurance Fraud Case
Jan 25 2017 // Ohio Lt. Gov. Mary Taylor said Tuscarawas County resident Tiffany Frame has been sentenced to two years of community control supervision and ordered to complete 250 hours of community service for committing insurance...
Insurers Back Arizona Bill Cutting Required Auto Glass Coverage
Jan 24 2017 // Rock-shattered windshields are such a common occurrence on Arizona roads that insurance companies have long been required to replace broken glass for free to drivers with full coverage policies. It ends up being a big...
Kansas Wildlife Investigation Uncovers Insurance Fraud
Jan 24 2017 // An investigation into possible wildlife violations uncovered unrelated insurance fraud evidence that led to a recent criminal conviction in Kansas. Lawrence E. Payne, Overland Park, was sentenced Dec. 6, 2016, to serve 30...
Former Executive Admits Stealing $850K from Pennsylvania Health Care Giant
Jan 24 2017 // A former executive with Pittsburgh-based health care giant UPMC has admitted he stole nearly $850,000 from the company by arranging to hire his wife and a friend as ghost workers. Federal prosecutors say 48-year-old Ronald...
New York Issues First-in-Nation Regulation on Commercial Crime Insurance
Jan 23 2017 // New York State’s Department of Financial Services (DFS) in December issued a new regulation that prohibits insurance companies from denying commercial crime insurance coverage to New York businesses employing people...
California Stays More than $1B in Liens Linked to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Jan 19 2017 // California’s Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has stayed more than 200,000 liens worth a combined claim value of more than $1 billion that are linked to 75 medical providers facing criminal fraud charges. The...
Stolen Laptop in California Held Info from Thousands of Hospital Patients
Jan 17 2017 // Officials at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles say a laptop stolen from a physician’s car last year may have contained personal health information for nearly 3,600 patients. The Los Angeles Daily News reported...
Arkansas Man Gets Five Years in Prison for $1.6M Insurance Fraud
Jan 13 2017 // A Fort Smith, Ark., man has been sentenced to five years in federal prison plus three years of supervised release for defrauding insurance customers, federal authorities say. Kenneth Elser, United States Attorney for the...
University of Alabama Hospital Employee Admits to Stealing $1.1M Over 9 Years
Jan 13 2017 // A woman whose job it was to make change for cashiers at UAB Hospital dining areas has been sentenced to 18 months in prison after she was accused of stealing $1.1 million. Al.com reports that Kyejuana Avery was also...
Volkswagen Agrees to $4.3 Billion U.S. Settlement Over Emissions Fraud
Jan 11 2017 // Volkswagen AG confirmed on Tuesday it has negotiated a $4.3 billion draft settlement with U.S. regulators to resolve its diesel emissions troubles and plans to plead guilty to criminal misconduct. The guilty plea is part...
Morrison Mahoney Hires 13 Attorneys in New York
Jan 10 2017 // Morrison Mahoney has hired 13 attorneys, including 5 partners and 8 associates, to the firm’s New York office. The group will be based in New York and provide service across all of Morrison Mahoney’s 10...
California DIR Releases Overview of New Laws
Jan 9 2017 // The California Department of Industrial Relations released its 2016 Legislative Digest, which summarizes new laws that impact workers and employers. Most of the chaptered bills took effect on Jan. 1. Highlights of those...
Taiwan’s $2M ATM Theft Linked to Europe’s ATM Heist: Cyber Security Firm
Jan 5 2017 // The group that orchestrated the theft of over $2 million from cash machines at Taiwan’s First Commercial Bank in July was also behind an ATM hacking spree in more than a dozen European nations last year, according to...
