Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
NYS Senate to Hold Auto Fraud Hearing
Jan 19 2004 // The New York State Senate Insurance Committee plans to hold a hearing Feb. 9 on New York’s auto insurance fraud problem. Fraud investigators and the insurance department are expected to testify on how staged...
N.Y. Fraud Squad Busts Queens No-fault Insurance Ring; 33 Arrested
Jan 16 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio joined New York City Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown in announcing multiple indictments charging a group of...
Fla. Advises on ‘Top 10’ Investment Scams to Beware of for 2004
Jan 15 2004 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Don Saxon, Director of the Office of Financial Regulation, warned that investors will be challenged with increasingly complex and confusing investment frauds in...
Travelers Unveils Master Policy Protection From Crime of Identity Theft
Jan 15 2004 // Travelers Property Casualty Corp. announced the availability of its new master policy to cover identity theft expenses. Financial institutions or other commercial businesses can purchase this policy on behalf of their...
Fraud Targeted by New Texas Initiative
Jan 14 2004 // With the creation of the Texas Committee on Insurance Fraud, the Texas insurance industry, state and county agencies, and national organizations are pulling together for the first time a coordinated effort to battle...
Allstate Seeks $3.5M in Medical Fraud Lawsuit Against Calif. Chiropractor
Jan 13 2004 // Allstate Insurance Company and Allstate Indemnity Company began serving summons and complaints upon an Los Angeles County chiropractor and his wife, accusing them of taking part in schemes designed to defraud the...
N.Y. Charges Two with Arson Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced the arrest of Joseph Dolcimascolo and his mother, Martha, on charges of insurance fraud in the third degree and grand larceny in the third degree. The...
Nev. Man Found Guilty of Felony Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // Attorney General Brian Sandoval announced that Patrick Lee Miller was found guilty of a felony insurance fraud, making false representations to an insurance company. The matter was heard in Humboldt County’s 6th...
Anonymous Tip, Employer Cooperation Solve Pair of Wash. L&I Fraud Cases
Jan 12 2004 // Washington has ordered a 62-year-old woman from Okanogan to pay back $117,004 after an investigation reportedly showed that she had collected survivor benefits illegally. And a 52-year-old Olympia man, Richard Sundblad,...
L.A. Man Pleads No Contest to Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // A Los Angeles man pleaded no contest to two felony counts of insurance fraud after CDI Fraud investigators determined that he misrepresented injuries allegedly sustained in his workplace. Tommie Lee Robinson, 55, claimed...
NINE NEW FRAUDSTERS JOIN “HALL OF SHAME”:
Jan 12 2004 // Nine of the nation’s top convicted insurance swindlers of 2003 have been elected to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Fame by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (www.InsuranceFraud.org). The East Coast scored well with...
The Right Man for the Right Job
Jan 12 2004 // An Exclusive Interview with Gregory Serio Gregory V. Serio, the superintendent of the New York State Insurance Department, is a busy man—moving between Albany, Manhattan, Washington D.C. and elsewhere about the country....
Insurers Seek $100 Million in Biggest N.Y. Fraud Suit
Jan 12 2004 // The Allstate Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company have filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action in the Supreme Court of New York against 74...
Pa. Man Charged in Arson-for-Hire Fraud Scam
Jan 12 2004 // Authorities in New Jersey have charged Robert Halpin, 23, of Horsham, Pa., with two counts of arson for hire, conspiracy, aggravated arson, arson to collect insurance proceeds and attempted theft by deception for...
N.Y. Arrests Psychotherapists for Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // A 263-count indictment, filed in Kings County Supreme Court, charges Gabriel Feldmar Ph.D., a licensed psychologist, and three psychotherapists under his employ, Brian McCarthy, Tomeka Austin and Nasim Jadoon, with...
FLA. OUTPACES NATION IN FRAUD CONVICTIONS:
Jan 12 2004 // Florida once again leads the nation in the number of insurance fraud convictions and cases presented for prosecution, according to a study released recently by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, a national alliance of...
Fla. Business Charged With Comp Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // The owner of a Tallahassee, Fla., pool construction business has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud and presenting a fake certificate of insurance. Wilbur Sellars, owner of Pro Pools Inc., surrendered to...
Miami Clinic Owner, Four Others Arrested in Auto Fraud Scheme
Jan 12 2004 // A Miami clinic owner and four others are in jail on charges of reportedly staging an accident after the clinic owner crashed his Humvee into two other cars in a scheme to collect insurance payments, according to...
Fla. Goes on Offensive to Fight Fraud
Jan 12 2004 // Florida is like many other states when it comes to insurance fraud — it recognizes the problem and is doing something about it. Recently, Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Bob Neumann, director of the Division of...
ARK. AGENT ARRESTED:
Jan 12 2004 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that Steven Edward Gwin was arrested and charged with a class D felony count of Fraudulent Insurance Act. According to investigators with the Arkansas Insurance...
