Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mississippi Man Charged with Property Insurance Fraud
Sep 18 2013 // A Washington County, Mississippi man has been charged with three counts of insurance fraud involving property claims. Attorney General Jim Hood said in a news release that 31-year-old Oliver Johnson of Greenville was being...
Violent, Property Crimes Decreased in 2012: FBI
Sep 16 2013 // The FBI estimates that in 2012, the number of violent crimes increased 0.7 percent while property crimes decreased 0.9 percent, the tenth straight year of declines for these offenses, collectively. The 2012 statistics show...
Insurers Expect Increase in Personal Lines, Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 13 2013 // One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year. The survey by FICO, a...
Iowa Division of Insurance Launching Fraud Fighters Program
Sep 12 2013 // The Iowa Insurance Division has launched a new anti-fraud program to help Iowans protect their money. The program is called Iowa Fraud Fighters – Shield Your Savings. It comes in response to a wave of new cons targeting...
Mississippi County Employee Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Sep 11 2013 // A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s...
Hiscox Adds Cyber Crime Protection for Small, Medium-Sized Businesses
Sep 11 2013 // Hiscox, the international specialist insurer, has added a new cyber crime protection endorsement to its technology privacy cyber portfolio. The cyber crime coverage option provides additional protection against growing...
U.K. Crime Agency Won’t Name Insurers Using Illegal Sources
Sep 11 2013 // The U.K.’s Serious Organised Crime Agency refused to reveal the names of law firms and insurance companies that may have hired convicted private investigators who illegally gained information. SOCA declined to...
Crop Insurance: A Growing Problem in Time of Record Farm Profits
Sep 9 2013 // A Depression-era program intended to save the nation’s farmers from ruin has grown into a 21st- century crutch enabling affluent growers and financial institutions to thrive at U.S. taxpayer expense. Federal crop...
Property Auctioned in Wisconsin Insurance Fraud Case
Sep 9 2013 // Fur coats, diamonds and Rolex watches were among hundreds of items once owned by a pair of Wausau, Wis., insurance executives that have been auctioned off to pay for their multimillion-dollar fraud scheme. Federal agents...
Ohio Business Owner Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Sep 9 2013 // A Cleveland, Ohio, man has been sentenced after a jury convicted him of failing to maintain workers’ compensation coverage for his business. Donald L. “Donnie” Schilling, owner of Cleveland Tire &...
3 N.J. Men Accused of Filing Fraudulent Cell Phone Insurance Claims Worth $160K
Sep 6 2013 // New Jersey authorities said three New Jersey men have been charged with engaging in a scheme to submit fraudulent cell phone loss claims to Asurion Insurance Services. The Passaic County Prosecutor’s Office said...
San Antonio Adjuster Pleads No Contest to Felony Theft of Insurance Payments
Sep 5 2013 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that a licensed insurance adjuster, Jennifer Marez, 35, of San Antonio has pleaded no contest to a second-degree felony of theft of $100,000 to $200,000. As a condition of the...
Auto Tire and Rim Thefts Increasing in Metro Detroit
Sep 5 2013 // Tire and rim thefts are increasing sharply in Detroit, Mich., according to Help Eliminate Auto Thefts (H.E.A.T.) and the American Car Rental Association (ACRA). H.E.A.T. is Michigan’s statewide auto theft prevention...
Dryad Maritime Gives Insights on Gulf of Guinea Maritime Crime
Sep 5 2013 // The UK-based maritime intelligence provider, Dryad Maritime, has issued a report – Special Advisory, The West Africa Problem; Mission Not Impossible -, which focuses on the rapidly evolving nature of maritime crime...
S&P Says Federal $5B Fraud Lawsuit ‘Retaliation’ for U.S. Downgrade
Sep 4 2013 // Standard & Poor’s said on Tuesday the U.S. government filed a $5 billion fraud lawsuit against it in “retaliation” for its 2011 decision to strip the country of its “AAA” credit...
Insurance Fraud Charges Dropped in North Dakota Cow Starvation Case
Aug 30 2013 // Prosecutors in North Dakota have dropped insurance fraud charges against a McIntosh County man who pleaded guilty to animal abuse charges, after authorities say he submitted a claim saying more than 100 of his cattle died...
North Carolina Couple Charged with Insurance Fraud Over Camper Rental
Aug 28 2013 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Wayne Goodwin recently announced the arrests of Johnny Ball, 49, and Joni Ball, 49, of Pink Hill on charges of insurance fraud and obtaining property by false pretense. Department of...
Mississippi Medical Students Get Free ID Theft Insurance
Aug 26 2013 // The University of Mississippi Medical Center said it will give students free insurance against identity theft after an accidental privacy breach. Last week, UMMC mistakenly sent about 190 people an email that had a...
Former Virginia Agency Owner Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Aug 22 2013 // A former Virginia insurance agent, who also owned her own insurance agency in Cumberland County, Va., will spend the next five years on supervised probation after pleading guilty to felony charges. She will also pay more...
Feds: Nearly 6,900 Firearms Stolen in Ohio in 2012
Aug 21 2013 // Nearly 6,900 firearms were reported stolen or lost in Ohio last year, ranking it sixth among states with the most missing guns, federal data shows. The lion’s share of those were listed as stolen; 78 were reported...
