Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mo. DOI Refuses License to Woman With Felony Fraud Conviction
Jun 21 2005 // The Missouri Department of Insurance has refused to issue an insurance producer license to Rochelle K. Whatley of Kansas City due to a felony conviction involving dishonesty and fraudulent conduct. On March 23,2005,...
Former Framers Owners Sentenced
Jun 20 2005 // Investigators announced that Jay Neal Wright, a former Bay Area businessman and owner of Highland Framers of Northern California Inc., was formally sentenced in Alameda County Superior Court to three years in state prison...
Three Suspects Arraigned
Jun 20 2005 // Three suspects were arraigned May 11 in Ventura County Superior Court in connection with a workers’ comp premium fraud investigation conducted by the CDI Fraud Division. Tomer Rotholz, a former licensed contractor,...
News Briefs
Jun 20 2005 // MASSACHUSETTS CAR NAMES COMMERCIAL CARRIERS: Commonwealth Auto Reinsurers has advanced its new commercial auto limited servicing carrier program by selecting the six carriers that will service this residual market business...
Suspects Apprehended: Dumped Pickup in River, Claimed it Was Stolen
Jun 16 2005 // Three Warner Robins, Ga. suspects have been apprehended and accused of allegedly driving a truck into the Flint River in Crawford County and then claiming it was stolen. Lindsey James Adams, 24, of Warner Robins, Ga. and...
Roofing Contractor Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 15 2005 // California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ compensation premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran, 50, pled guilty on June 8,...
Jury Selection Completed in Miami Hurricane Frances Fraud Case
Jun 15 2005 // U.S. District Court Judge Cecilia Altonaga opened testimony Wednesday in a trial in which the defendant, Daniel Bellegarde, a resident of Homestead, Fla., allegedly bilked the Federal Emergency Management Agency of more...
Research & Markets Issues Study on U.K. Car Theft Warning Systems
Jun 14 2005 // Dublin-based Research and Markets announced the addition of a “UK Car Alarm Fitment Report” to their offering. The report “provides an analysis of the fitment of vehicle security alarms across the 22...
Second General Re Executive Pleads Guilty in AIG Fraud Case
Jun 13 2005 // The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged a second senior executive of General Re Corporation, Richard Napier, for his role in aiding and abetting a securities fraud committed by American International Group,...
Sarasota, Fla. Circuit Court Awards $16M Judgment to FCCI in Suspected Fraud Case
Jun 10 2005 // A Sarasota, Fla. Circuit Court awarded FCCI Insurance Company a $16,174,977 judgment last week in a civil action dating back to 2002. The judgment against S&H Drywall of Inverness, Fla. and Premier Enterprises...
