Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Three Arrested for Staging Florida PIP Fraud Accidents
Aug 8 2006 // Three individuals, including a father and daughter have been arrested and face felony charges stemming from staged accidents and $40,000 in fraudulent auto insurance billings according to Tom Gallagher, Florida’s...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Ohio comes in fifth, Indiana in top 10 at number nine California was tops in the nation for motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Ohio had...
Ill. Attorney General holds identity theft summit, state ranks 10th
Aug 7 2006 // Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan recently convened the first-ever Illinois Identity Theft Summit. The goal of the summit was to bring representatives from law enforcement, the court system, government, business and...
Get your motor runnin’ — not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // Most motorcycles taken in California, Texas comes in third; Arkansas, Oklahoma and Louisiana in the middle of the pack for thefts California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National...
Get your motor runnin’ – not stolen
Aug 7 2006 // California topped the nation in motorcycle thefts in 2005, according to the National Insurance Crime Bureau, but Texas had the dubious honor of coming in third place, with Florida falling in between the two as the state...
Tyler County, W. Va. Agent Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Aug 4 2006 // West Virginia officials say a longtime Tyler County insurance agent has pleaded guilty to fraud. Sistersville resident Bennie H. Kile Jr. of the Kile Insurance Agency admitted he took money and promised customers insurance...
TDI Announces June 2006 Enforcement Actions
Aug 3 2006 // The Texas Department of Insurance announced enforcement actions taken by Commissioner Mike Geeslin that became final during June. The actions include eight license revocations, three license denials and fines and...
San Jose Resident Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Aug 3 2006 // A San Jose woman has been arrested for insurance fraud after she allegedly falsified information while submitting a claim to an insurance company, according to California Commissioner John Garamendi. Suzanne Aguilar, 34,...
Iowa Lt. Governor Launches Senior Fraud Initiative
Aug 2 2006 // Calling the defrauding of seniors a “big business” and a major problem in Iowa, Lt. Gov. Sally Pederson on Thursday announced a new initiative designed to educate older Iowans about investment fraud. The...
Okla. Man Charged With Defrauding 8
Aug 2 2006 // A Claremore, Okla., man is facing nine felony counts of caretaker exploitation after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson’s Patient Abuse and Medicaid Fraud Control Unit. Mark Neil Ferris, 49, was...
More than $300,000 Alleged Stolen from Investors in Ind.
Aug 1 2006 // More criminal charges are pending against a former insurance agent who prosecutors say could have stolen more than $300,000 from investors. The felony charges of theft in Huntington County against Larry E. Walkup, 57, of...
Jewelers Mutual Offers Free ID Theft Service for Commercial Customers
Aug 1 2006 // Neenah, Wis.-based Jewelers Mutual Insurance announced a free identity theft service for commercial policyholders in the United States and Canada who are owners, officers, or principals of their jewelry businesses. The...
N.Y. Fraud Fighting Pays Off; Medical Pros Charged in Latest Scam
Aug 1 2006 // A physician, a medical clinic owner and others are accused of a multimillion dollar auto insurance scam involving staged crashes and perpetrators who sought unnecessary treatment at facilities that were part of the scheme,...
Wis. Insurer Says Customer Data Stolen, Some of it Sold on Internet
Jul 31 2006 // Personal information on 72 worker’s compensation claimants was stolen from Wisconsin-based Sentry Insurance and later sold over the Internet, the company said. The data sold included names and Social Security numbers...
Minn. Plans Program to Raise Public Awareness of Insurance Crimes
Jul 28 2006 // At a rate of about three a day, state Commerce Department regulators have been posting enforcement actions against insurance agencies and companies, real estate agents, mortgage originators, security brokers and...
Gov. Bush signs Florida auto insurance fraud legislation
Jul 24 2006 // Florida legislation that promises to reins in auto insurance fraud was signed June 26 by Gov. Jeb Bush. Provisions of House Bill 561 and Senate Bill 1596 and the governor’s approval were applauded by Tom Gallagher,...
N.Y. blasts ‘anemic’ workers’ comp anti-fraud efforts
Jul 24 2006 // New York officials have denied a requested 7.5 percent hike in workers’ compensation premiums and criticized what they termed carriers’ ‘anemic’ efforts in combating fraud in doing so. The decision...
P/C market takes hold of rapidly developing identity theft solutions
Jul 24 2006 // In today’s marketplace insurers are moving towards a case-managed, victim advocacy approach with far less emphasis placed on the restoration of expense reimbursements. Identity-related fraud is a virulent crime, with...
Provisions of Florida’s anti-auto fraud legislation:
Jul 24 2006 // Corresponding with a 2003 law that established a two-year minimum sentence for anyone organizing or participating in an actual staged auto crash, the new legislation: • Provides for revocation of the driver’s...
Fraud on the farm
Jul 24 2006 // Although the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Risk Management Agency has taken steps to improve its procedures and processes to address fraud, waste and abuse in selling servicing crop insurance policies, many flaws...
