Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
There’s a Lot of Fraud Out There!
Jul 4 2005 // Insurance fraud investigators at the 13th Annual Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee Conference in Orlando pointed out that multiple insurance deductibles and higher deductibles can motivate insurance fraud’s...
Deductibles Motivated Homeowners to Cheat on Claims
Jul 4 2005 // Investigators Cite Increase in Fla. Insurance Fraud Insurance fraud has increased dramatically in Florida as an after-effect of the 2004 hurricane season Robert Elliott, a lead investigator with Nationwide...
FCCI WINS $16 M JUDGMENT IN SUSPECTED FRAUD CASE
Jul 4 2005 // A Sarasota, Fla. Circuit Court has awarded FCCI Insurance Company a $16,174,977 judgment in a civil action dating back to 2002. The judgment against S&H Drywall of Inverness, Fla., and Premier Enterprises Unlimited of...
PIP FRAUD TOPS FLORIDA’S ‘TOP 10 LIST’
Jul 4 2005 // Personal Injury Protection auto insurance fraud and title insurance trickery topped a summary of Florida’s top 10 costliest or boldest securities, financial and insurance fraud scams that resulted in arrests or...
THREE ARRESTED FOR ACCIDENT STAGING
Jul 4 2005 // The Louisiana State Police Insu-rance Fraud Unit arrested three Ville Platte residents on felony insurance fraud related warrants. The state police said the arrests were the result of an investigation into a staged...
GOV. SIGNS FRAUD LEGISLATION
Jul 4 2005 // Texas Gov. Rick Perry has signed legislation making it tougher on criminals who commit insurance fraud in the state, according Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, which strongly supported the measures. Senate Bill 871 by...
Contractor Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Jul 4 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ comp premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran pled guilty on June 8 to one felony...
Editor’s Note:
Jul 4 2005 // There’s a Lot of Fraud Out There! Insurance fraud investigators at the 13th Annual Florida Insurance Fraud Education Committee Conference in Orlando pointed out that multiple insurance deductibles and higher...
A Roundup of Fraud Activities Reported Across the Southeast
Jul 4 2005 // Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // ALABAMA Arlene’s Timing Perfect for Referral List When Tropical Storm Arlene blew through Alabama it made the timing ideal for the release of a homeowners insurance referral list providing area homeowners with the...
Deductibles Motivated Homeowners to Cheat on Claims
Jul 4 2005 // Insurance fraud has increased dramatically in Florida as an after-effect of the 2004 hurricane season Robert Elliott, a lead investigator with Nationwide Insurance’s Special Investigation Unit told law enforcement...
News Briefs
Jul 4 2005 // Louisiana Three Arrested for Accident Staging The Louisiana State Police Insu-rance Fraud Unit arrested three Ville Platte residents on felony insurance fraud related warrants. The state police said the arrests were the...
La. Man Arrested for Identity Theft
Jul 1 2005 // The Louisiana State Police reported that troopers from its fraud unit have arrested Sam Medica, age 42, of Alexandria, who is charged with LRS 14:67.16 Identity Theft (1 Count). The arrest follows a year-long investigation...
Failed Reciprocal of America Executives Sentenced for Role in Fraud
Jun 30 2005 // Two former executives of a failed malpractice insurer were sentenced in federal court this week as part of an ongoing fraud investigation that has helped expose troubling practices in the industry. Kenneth R. Patterson,...
Father, Son Charged With Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 30 2005 // A father and his son are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges in Jacksonville, Fla. for allegedly not having the required workers’ compensation coverage for employees, resulting in more than $1 million in...
TDI Pleased with Success of Fraud Fighting Dallas County DA
Jun 30 2005 // The Texas Department of Insurance reported that Dallas County Assistant District Attorney, Kyson Johnson has been on the job for only a few months, but has made the most of that time. In just the first quarter of 2005...
La. Husband, Wife Convicted in Fake Cancer Scheme
Jun 29 2005 // A former Shreveport, La., police officer escaped most of the federal charges lodged against him in a scheme to collect donations for a non-existent brain tumor his wife claimed to have. The Associated Press reported that...
Students Find Americans Willing to Pay for ID Theft Insurance
Jun 27 2005 // Americans willing to pay for a personal information protection insurance plan expect to pay $88 annually, according to an online survey by graduate student researchers at Boston University. The researchers link the...
Ohio Auto Thefts Down 2% for 2nd Straight Year
Jun 22 2005 // Auto thefts in Ohio appear to have declined more than 2 percent for the second consecutive year, according to estimates released by the Ohio Insurance Institute. Based on auto theft survey results of 17 major Ohio city...
Texas Truck Driver Indicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 22 2005 // The Travis County grand jury indicted Jerry Amaya of Cedar Creek, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Amaya filed a workers’ compensation claim...
