Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Pa. Judge Wants His Insurance Fraud Trial Moved To Pittsburgh
Feb 27 2008 // Former Pa. Superior Court Judge Michael Joyce wants his federal insurance fraud trial moved out of Erie to U.S. District Court in Pittsburgh. Joyce’s attorney says news coverage of the case has generated enormous...
Charges Against Rep. Renzi of Ariz. Include Land Swap, Insurance Fraud
Feb 26 2008 // Republican U.S. Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona has been indicted on a slew of public corruption charges and for stealing from his insurance company’s clients to fund his first campaign, federal authorities announced. The...
Kentucky Woman Sentenced in Workers’ Comp Case
Feb 26 2008 // A Floyd County, Ky., woman pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor insurance fraud charge after lying about her husband’s employment history during a workers’ compensation hearing, according to the Kentucky Office of...
Federal Agencies Still Lacking Identity Theft Protections, Says Report
Feb 25 2008 // Nearly two years after an embarrassing flap in which veterans’ personal information was put at risk of identity theft, federal agencies are still not doing all they can to prevent further lapses, investigators have...
$500K Grant Goes to Assist Maryland ID Theft, Crime Victims
Feb 25 2008 // A crime victim’s assistance group will help those harmed by identity theft and fraud under a $500,000 grant announced Thursday. The Maryland Crime Victims Resource Center plans to use the money to provide direct...
Wilson Joins Virginia State Police Insurance Fraud Program
Feb 25 2008 // Daniel Wilson, a former insurance defense attorney, has been named legal specialist for the Insurance Fraud Program of the Virginia State Police in Richmond. Wilson’s responsibilities include acting as a liaison...
5 Execs Found Guilty of Fraud in Gen Re-AIG Trial
Feb 25 2008 // A federal court jury in Hartford, Connecticut has found four former General Re Corp. executives and one former American International Group executive guilty of corporate fraud and conspiracy charges stemming from...
Texas Man Pleads Guilty to Rita Fraud
Feb 22 2008 // A Beaumont, Texas man pleaded guilty to making a false statement to FEMA in seeking disaster relief after Hurricane Rita. Wilyum Henderson, 50, entered the plea in federal court in Beaumont. The U.S. Attorney’s...
West Virginia: Kanawha County Man Pleads Guilty To Insurance Fraud
Feb 21 2008 // A Kanawha County, W. Va., man, who was indicted on a felony count of submitting a fraudulent insurance claim to an insurance company pleaded guilty to a reduced charge of one misdemeanor count of insurance fraud, according...
N.M. Tribe Sues Regulator Over Leavitt’s Corp. Status Reinstatement
Feb 21 2008 // The Mescalero Apache Tribe in Santa Fe, N.M., contends it overpaid millions of dollars for insurance, alleging the state let an insurance agent operate after the agent was accused of submitting fraudulent documents to sell...
W. Va.: Putnam County Man Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Feb 20 2008 // A Putnam County, W. Va. man pleaded guilty to one felony count of insurance fraud for his involvement in disposing of his wife’s minivan by pushing it over a hill on Poplar Fork Road in January of 2007 according to...
AXA Art Offers Security Checks after Swiss Theft
Feb 19 2008 // AXA Art, the specialty branch of France’s AXA Group that offers coverage for art works, has issued a bulletin “offering to conduct security protocol assessments of museums in its key markets. The goal is to...
W. Va. Insurance Commissioner Says Employer Owes the State Money
Feb 15 2008 // W. Va. Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline announced that a West Hamlin man who was indicted on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud, pleaded guilty to the charges in Kanawha County Circuit...
N.Y. Junkyard Owner Charged in Scheme to Insure Illegal Aliens
Feb 14 2008 // A N.Y. junkyard owner has been charged with masterminding a scheme to sell high-mileage vehicles to illegal aliens and then insure the vehicles through his own garage policy. Officials said 61-year-old William Hrazanek of...
N.D. Insurance Agent Pleads Guilty to Fraud and Theft
Feb 11 2008 // A Fargo, N.D. insurance agent has pleaded guilty to 38 felony charges as part of a plea agreement recommending that he serve a total of two years in prison. Sixty-one-year-old David Skjerven (SHUR’-ven) also would...
State Auto Offers Enhancements to ID Theft Coverage Program
Feb 11 2008 // Columbus, Ohio-based State Auto Insurance Cos. recently announced that it is now offering a comprehensive “Life Stages” identity management program providing free access to proactive and resolution services for...
Hall of Shame Scams Shocking
Feb 10 2008 // The Coalition reports that nearly one of four Americans say it’s ok to defraud insurers. Some 8 percent say it’s “quite acceptable” to bilk insurers, while 16 percent say it’s “somewhat...
3-day Dragnet in Florida Nets 47
Feb 10 2008 // Officials arrested 47 Floridians so far in a statewide, three-day operation, targeting 84 individuals for various insurance fraud charges, according to Florida Chief Financial Officer Alex Sink. The arrests, which took...
Teacher, Gypsy, Even an Insurance Agent Make Fraud Hall of Shame List
Feb 10 2008 // A glass-eating gypsy, a teacher who faked terminal cancer, and an insurance agent who killed homeless clients are among the top insurance swindlers of 2007. These convicted thieves were inducted into the Insurance Fraud...
Fighting Insurance Crime Does Pay
Feb 10 2008 // Ronald Evano took great pains to bilk insurers. Literally. The self-described gypsy shook down insurers, restaurants, bars and other businesses along the East Coast by swallowing broken glass and claiming the shards were...
