Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Texas Child Care Worker Sentenced for Comp Fraud
Mar 14 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Minerva Davila of New Braunfels pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The Travis County 147th District Court sentenced Davila to two years’...
Four More Banks Settle Worldcom Claims
Mar 11 2005 // Four investment banks this week agreed to pay a total of $428.4 million to settle claims stemming from a class-action lawsuit brought by former shareholders of WorldCom Inc. New York state Comptroller Alan Hevesi said in a...
Texas Insurance Commissioner Signs Emergency Cease and Desist Order
Mar 11 2005 // On March 3, 2005, Texas Insurance Commissioner Jose Montemayor signed an order to stop unlicensed individuals and their affiliates from selling unauthorized surety bonds to Texas consumers. According to the Texas...
Calif. Authorities Warn of Getting Soaked by Fraudulent Contractors Following Storms
Mar 10 2005 // As the damage from the recent California storms is tallied, a new peril threatens homeowners — con artists posing as contractors and public adjusters. These criminals come out of the woodwork after disasters, preying...
LexisNexis Reports Customer ID Theft
Mar 10 2005 // Reed Elsevier today announced that LexisNexis, its global legal and business information business, has identified a number of incidents of potentially fraudulent access to information about U.S. individuals at its recently...
N.Y. Counties Receive Insurance Anti-Fraud Funds
Mar 10 2005 // New York Governor George E. Pataki has announced the recipients of $5.3 million in grants for programs to combat motor vehicle theft and insurance fraud in communities across the state. “These grants will help give...
San Antonio Man Pleads Guilty to Comp Fraud
Mar 9 2005 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that Kevin Savage of San Antonio has pleaded guilty to workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. According to Texas Mutual, the Travis County 147th District Court sentenced...
Fla. Homeowner Arrested for False Hurricane Claim
Mar 9 2005 // A Cocoa Beach, Fla. homeowner is facing a felony charge for filing a false insurance claim allegedly claiming that renovation work to his home was the result of hurricane damage. Robert Milliken of 744 S. Orlando Ave. #...
Ga. Authorities Still Looking to Park Tow Truck Operator
Mar 8 2005 // Georgia Insurance Commissioner John Oxendine and Savannah-Chatham Metropolitan Police Chief Dan Flynn announced recently that an arrest warrant has been issued for suspect Russell Lee Scruggs, owner of a Savannah towing...
Calif. Authorities Give Comp Fraud a Clean Sweep
Mar 7 2005 // In a joint effort, investigators from the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement (DLSE), overseen by the California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR), and the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office...
FRAUD CRACKDOWN LOWERS CLAIMS:
Mar 7 2005 // Auto accident claims are down significantly in Lawrence, Mass., and several other Merrimack Valley communities after a 16-month crackdown on auto insurance fraud, according to an industry report. The Insurance Fraud Bureau...
Indiana Bill Gets Tough on Insurance Fraud, Passes House 95-1
Mar 7 2005 // The Indiana House of Representatives voted 95-1 last month in support of a bill that would toughen penalties against insurance fraud in an attempt to provide prosecutors with a greater incentive to pursue such...
Dawson, Ga., Mayor Settles Allegations
Mar 7 2005 // More than two years of insurance fraud allegations were ended by Dawson, Ga., Mayor Robert Albritten when he pleaded no contest to nine misdemeanor counts. According to The Macon Telegraph, Albritten, a retired insurance...
22 S. Floridians Arrested in Fraud Ring
Mar 7 2005 // The arrests of 22 of 29 ring-members believed to be involved in a widespread racket, which bilked insurance companies for more than $1 million by staging at least a dozen auto crashes and making false claims to area...
Man Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Mar 7 2005 // On Jan. 13, 2005, Victor Morales Delgado and his brother-in-law, Jose Guerrero, both of Sacramento, self-surrendered to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Organized Auto Insurance Task Force for...
Calif. Man Collects Benefits on False Claim
Mar 7 2005 // On Dec. 8, 2004, Sammy Barela Rios, of Madera, was arrested by investigators from the CDI Fraud Division and booked into the Madera county jail on four felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud and one felony...
CSR Reported Fraudulent Auto Theft
Mar 7 2005 // On Nov. 18, 2004, Cameron Antonio Wilkins, of Colfax, self-surrendered to CDI investigators. Wilkins was booked into the Sacramento county jail on one felony count of insurance fraud associated with the reported theft of...
Father, Son Arrested on Auto Fraud Charges
Mar 7 2005 // On Dec. 16, 2004, Virgil Ray Blackmer and his son, Brian Blackmer, both of San Jose, were arrested on one felony count each of insurance fraud. The suspects were booked into the Santa Clara county jail after they were...
UPSWorker Arrested for Comp Fraud
Mar 7 2005 // Stacey Wesley Prosser of Manteca was arrested on Nov. 18, 2004, and booked into the San Joaquin county jail on nine felony counts of insurance fraud. If convicted on all counts, Prosser could face up to five years in state...
ChoicePoint: ‘Insurance Industry Databases Were Not Compromised’
Mar 7 2005 // ChoicePoint’s Clue Auto, Clue Property and Current Carrier insurance industry databases were not in any way involved or compromised by the fraud ring that obtained data from other ChoicePoint databases of public...
