Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
FLORIDA
Jan 1 2006 // The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud has released a list of arrests, convictions and ongoing investigations showing that 32 people have been arrested, eight convicted and 84 are being actively investigated. According to...
N.J. Neurologist Charged with Million Dollar Insurance Fraud Scam
Jan 1 2006 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey reported that a Mercer County neurologist, his former medical practice and four former medical diagnostic and/or medical equipment corporations, along with the former office...
Former Kansas City cop pleads guilty in insurance fraud scheme
Jan 1 2006 // Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car...
Santa Barbara Hotel Housekeeper Pleads Guilty to Fraud
Dec 30 2005 // Fabiola Rosas DeArzate, aka Blanca Estela Garcia DeArzate, 35, of Santa Barbara, Calif., has plead guilty to insurance fraud and was sentenced to 120 days in county jail, five years formal probation, and ordered to pay...
2005, a Year to Remember: Busiest Hurricane Season of the Century for United States
Dec 29 2005 // The hurricane season made 2005 a year-to-remember, with the southeast encountering the busiest hurricane season of the century, with 26 named storms and 13 hurricanes, meteorologists used up the list of 21 proper names and...
Ind. Physician Accused of Insurance Fraud Found Dead
Dec 28 2005 // An Indiana physician charged with overbilling Medicaid and an insurance company by about $200,000 for work at his private practice was found dead at a Carmel hotel on December 21, police said. Dr. David B. Kennedy, 55, a...
Mass. Bus Driver Pulled Over for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 28 2005 // An public transit MBTA bus driver has been indicted on charges that he fraudulently collected workers’ compensation benefits and submitted falsified documents to support his claims, Attorney General Tom Reilly...
Wash. Commissioner Wants to Investigate Staged Accidents
Dec 28 2005 // Washington State Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler wants to create a new fraud unit to investigate staged traffic accidents. These can involve a network of lawyers, doctors, chiropractors and physical...
MedAlert Healthcare Systems Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 27 2005 // A Travis County, Texas, grand jury has indicted MedAlert Healthcare Systems Inc. and its president, Joseph Osei, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. MedAlert...
Insurance Fraud Detectives Apprehend Miamian on 48 Felony Charges
Dec 22 2005 // A Miami man is facing more than 48 felony charges after surrendering Tuesday to insurance fraud detectives with the Department of Financial Services investigating the theft of nearly $1 million in a 2002 mortgage...
Devlin to Chair Texas Insurance Fraud Committee
Dec 22 2005 // Dennis J. Devlin, regional vice president of the Travelers Property and Casualty Insurance Company, has assumed the chairmanship of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud. Devlin replaces Craig Sparks, CEO of Union...
W.Va. Bus Driver Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 22 2005 // Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of...
IBC Picks Canada’s 2005 “Top Ten” Insurance Crimes
Dec 21 2005 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada has released its annual Top Ten Insurance Crimes list, which highlights “some of the strangest and most audacious insurance frauds and auto theft cases uncovered by insurance...
Fla. Bureau of Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit Commander Describes Four Common Violations
Dec 19 2005 // Premium fraud, working without workers’ compensation coverage, fraudulent certification and claimant fraud are common types of workers’ compensation fraud encountered by the Bureau of Workers’...
NAMIC Supports Arizona Legislative Study of Auto Theft
Dec 19 2005 // The National Association of Mutual Insurance Companies (NAMIC), Indianapolis, said it will support a legislative study on auto theft in Arizona when the bill is heard in the state’s legislature. A proposed bill has...
Fraud Case Records Found in Longwood
Dec 19 2005 // A trash bin in Longwood, Fla. near Orlando has revealed boxes of medical records with photographs, names, Social Security numbers and personal information about chiropractic patients in Lawrence, Mass. treated by Prestige...
‘Fraud Fighters’ Pay $16,000 in Rewards
Dec 19 2005 // Five individuals who reported fraud perpetrators have received $16,000 in cash rewards from the Florida Financial Services Department after the recipients, including a child, provided information that led fraud detectives...
Calif. Physician Sentenced for Eight Years
Dec 19 2005 // A Brentwood, Calif., physician who pleaded no contest to fraud charges in three separate cases was sentenced to an eight-year prison term and ordered to pay his victims $5 million, the District Attorney’s office...
Marin County Contractor Pleads Guilty
Dec 18 2005 // A licensed general contractor and owner of a Marin County, Calif., roofing company has pled guilty to workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud, unemployment insurance fraud and filing false income tax...
FLORIDA
Dec 18 2005 // Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally...
