Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Authorities Nab Correctional Officer in Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud Scam
Dec 16 2004 // A former Folsom Prison Correctional Officer was arrested Dec. 15 after an investigation into alleged workers’ compensation fraud in which investigators video-taped her using a jet ski, a water slide, and performing...
ELAN Files Calif. Public Records Act Request with Commissioner to Release $4B in Policyholder Losses
Dec 16 2004 // The Executive Life Action Network (ELAN), an activist group of former Executive Life Insurance Co. policyholders, has filed a California Public Records Act (CPRA) request with Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi urging...
N.J. Residents Pulled Over in Accident Scam
Dec 16 2004 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor obtained a State Grand Jury indictment charging five North Jersey residents with...
Ohio Chiropractor Gets 1 Year of Probation for Comp Fraud, Pays Back $216,000
Dec 13 2004 // The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced a Greenville, Ohio, man has pled guilty to a felony charge of workers’ compensation fraud. Dr. Robert Fantasia was sentenced to one year of probation, basic...
State Fund Collects $550,000 in Restitution from Workers’ Comp Fraud Case
Dec 10 2004 // State Compensation Insurance Fund collected $550,000 as the first installment of a total $677,693.00 owed to the Fund from a Los Angeles business owner who pleaded no contest to felony workers’ compensation insurance...
Former N.C. DoT Employee Sentenced for Disability Claims Fraud
Dec 10 2004 // Denise Hargrove of Raleigh, N.C. has been sentenced to from four to five-and-a-half years in prison and one year of probation for insurance fraud. Hargrove, a former Department of Transportation employee, admitted she...
Ark. Commissioner Warns of Alleged Fraudulent Activity by Unlicensed Company
Dec 8 2004 // Arkansas State Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens recently issued a warning for consumers to be on alert for potentially fraudulent insurance activity from a company called Nations Hazard Insurance and an individual using...
Calif. Releases 2005 User Funding/Fraud/Uninsured Employer & Subsequent Injury Fund Rates
Dec 6 2004 // The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) has issued 2005 assessment rates for User Funding, Anti-Fraud Programs, the Uninsured Employer Benefit Trust Fund and the Subsequent Injury Benefit Trust Fund. State...
L.A. Business Owner Sentenced for Comp Fraud
Dec 6 2004 // A Los Angeles business owner was sentenced to pay $1.8 million in restitution and fines this week after a three-year joint investigation involving the California Department of Insurance found he had underreported wages at...
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California Leads Nation in Auto Theft Rates for 2003
Dec 6 2004 // No South Central states in the top 10 list. The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2003, car thieves were most active in California. Six of the nation’s 10 hottest spots for...
California Leads the Nation in Auto Theft Rates for 2003
Dec 6 2004 // The National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) reported that for calendar year 2003, car thieves were most active in California. Six of the nation’s 10 hottest spots for vehicle theft rates are in California, while the...
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Pair Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 6 2004 // An Inyokern, Calif. couple who reportedly bilked the workers’ comp system out of more than $76,000 in a disability scheme was sentenced to prison Nov. 16 on the charges and ordered to pay $102,706 in restitution and...
Corona Man Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Dec 3 2004 // Luis Roberto Diaz, of Corona, Calif., surrendered to the San Bernardino Superior Court on November 22, 2004, after being charged with two counts of grand theft, three counts of insurance premium fraud, one count of...
La. Repair Shops Under Fraud Investigation
Dec 2 2004 // As many as 25 New Orleans-area auto repair shops might be connected to about 700 false claims filed with Shell Oil Co. for fuel gauge repairs, according to the head of the Louisiana state police insurance fraud...
Owner of Maintenance Company that Worked for UCLA, Rose Bowl Charged in Fraud Scam
Dec 2 2004 // The 61-year-old owner of a building maintenance company that did work for UCLA and the Rose Bowl has been charged with multiple counts of filing between $600,000 to $900,000 in fraudulent workers’ compensation...
S.C. Legislature to Discuss Insurance Fraud
Dec 1 2004 // During the past five years, insurance fraud complaints have grown by 61 percent in South Carolina, while the average U.S. family pays an extra $1,030 in insurance premiums each year to cover the cost of medical, auto, and...
