Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.J. Woman Charged With Using Phony Auto Insurance Card
Jul 15 2003 // New Jersey’s Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County woman has been charged by the Division of Criminal Justice – Office of Insurance Fraud Prosecutor with allegedly possessing a...
N.Y. Man Arrested for Fraudulent Claim in Home Fire
Jul 14 2003 // New York Superintendent Gregory Serio announced that Samuel Gardner, 41, of Kent, New York, was arrested and charged with Insurance Fraud, Arson and Attempted Grand Larceny. On July 28, 2002 Mr. Gardner’s home was...
N.Y. Man Pleads Guilty to Conspiracy in $1M Scam
Jul 14 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that a New York man has plead guilty to conspiracy for his reported role in helping to finance a scheme designed to fraudulently collect on a million-dollar insurance...
Wash. Man Ordered to Pay $20,300 for WC Fraud
Jul 14 2003 // A 52-year-old Olympia, Wash. man, Richard Sundblad, has been ordered to pay $20,300 in penalties and Wash. Department of Labor and Industries benefits he collected while secretly working. An investigation into Sundblad...
Calif. Trio Charged with 28 Counts of Auto Fraud
Jul 14 2003 // Three suspects were arrested and charged with 28 felony counts after an investigation by multiple agencies into a staged auto collision ring in the Los Angeles area, which cost insurance companies an estimated $1 million...
Anonymous Informant Awarded $1,000
Jul 14 2003 // Texas Mutual Insurance Company announced that, thanks to a recent anonymous tip, it is ready to recover over $8,200 in restitution and save over $26,000 in estimated future income benefits. Additionally, the confidential...
Florida Agent Arrested on Fraud Charges
Jul 11 2003 // An Orlando, Fla. insurance agent was taken into custody for allegedly misappropriating more than $30,000 in workers’ compensation insurance premiums, according to the Florida Department of Financial Services. The...
NAII Court Brief Argues for Narrow Ill. Fraud Interpretation
Jul 10 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) filed an amicus brief with the Illinois Supreme Court urging the court to reverse an Appellate Court opinion that broadens the scope of the Illinois Consumer Fraud...
IBC, Crawford Adjusters Team Up to Fight Fraud
Jul 10 2003 // The Insurance Bureau of Canada announced that it has entered into an agreement with Crawford Adjusters Canada to exchange claims data in a common format to combat fraud. “Insurance fraud costs Canadians $1.3 billion...
N.Y. Woman Arrested for Prescription Claims Fraud
Jul 9 2003 // New York’s Superintendent of Insurance Gregory V. Serio announced that an investigation into a fraudulent prescription drug reimbursement claim has resulted in the arrest of Lynn Blake, 37, of Middletown, New York,...
Texas Co. With No Employees Found Guilty of WC Fraud
Jul 8 2003 // In late June, Travis County (Texas) District Judge Patrick Keel found that a San Antonio janitorial company reportedly lied about its payroll to get workers’ compensation coverage so it could pursue lucrative...
CDI Makes Arrests for Grand Theft
Jul 7 2003 // Harrison Bailey, 54, of Yuba City, Calif., was arrested on five counts of grand theft, five counts of theft of fiduciary funds, four counts of embezzlement by an agent and one count of altering records to...
Fourteen Arrested in Fraud Sweep
Jul 7 2003 // The CDI and the Los Angeles County Auto Insurance Fraud Task Force arrested 14 people who are suspected of defrauding three insurance carriers in a criminal conspiracy. The suspects allegedly sold insurance policies to...
Fugitive Arrested in Sacramento
Jul 7 2003 // Two counts of insurance fraud and one count of attempted perjury led the CDI to the arrest of Hamman Noel Jr., aka Kenneth Arlington, 32, of Stockton, Calif., who had been a fugitive for more than a year. In April 2000,...
Woman Arrested on Grand Theft Charges
Jul 7 2003 // Arsenia Ann Mack, 55, of Sacramento, was arrested after she surrendered on two counts of insurance fraud and one count of grand theft. According to CDI investigators, Mack reported a residential burglary loss on Oct. 2,...
Insurance Agent Charged with Grand Theft
Jul 7 2003 // Arshak (Mike) Rostomyan, 27, of Glendale, Calif., was arrested for allegedly selling fraudulent insurance policies and charged with three counts of grand theft. According to CDI investigators, Rostomyan, who owns All...
HIH Investigation Produces First Criminal Charges
Jul 3 2003 // The ongoing investigation into the collapse of Australia’s HIH Insurance Ltd. in March of 2001 with debts in excess of A$5.3 billion (U.S. $3.57 billion) has produced its first criminal charges against the bankrupt...
Calif. Man Surrenders to Authorities on Fraud Charge
Jul 2 2003 // Chad Matt Schmidt, 33, of Walnut Creek, surrendered to authorities on June 13, and was booked into the Placer County Jail on five counts of insurance fraud. If convicted, Schmidt could face up to five years in prison...
AAI Says Appellate Court’s Decision Strikes Blow for Insurer Use of Databases in Underwriting, Rating
Jul 2 2003 // In an ironic twist, a recent federal appellate court opinion in an insurance fraud case seems to contradict actions by several regulators to prevent insurer use of claims databases, according to the Alliance of American...
Calif. Man Pleads Guilty to Auto Fraud
Jul 1 2003 // Brian Wynn Stevens, 34, of Helendale, pled guilty to one count of insurance fraud stemming from an auto accident that occurred while he was uninsured, according to an investigation by the California Department of Insurance...
