Latest Fraud Headlines

All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.

LOUISIANA AGENT FACES CHARGES

Feb 24 2003 // Acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley confirmed that a Monroe, La. insurance agent was arrested as a part of an ongoing statewide crackdown on insurance fraud being conducted by the La. Department of...

CDI Makes Progress with Fraud Cases

Feb 21 2003 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division announced recent developments in these insurance fraud cases: ·Mauricio Acosta, 23, was arrested at his residence without incident and booked...

Frankel Co-Conspirator Pleads Guilty in Ark. Court

Feb 21 2003 // Arkansas Insurance Commissioner Mike Pickens announced that a guilty plea to a felony charge of violating the maintenance of home office records law has been entered for Gary Atnip, an alleged co-conspirator with Martin...

Workers’ Comp Insurers Must Check Criminal List When Claim is Filed

Feb 19 2003 // Unless a claim is filed, workers’ compensation insurers reportedly would not know if an employee’s name is included in the infamous Specialty Designated National (SDN) list of criminals and terrorists targeted...

N.Y. Dept., Albany County D.A. Announce Arrest of Albany Lawyer

Feb 18 2003 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio and Albany County District Attorney Paul Clyne announced the arrest of Leonard Krouner Esq., 55, of Loudonville, N.Y., for reportedly fraudulently obtaining disability...

False Identity Leads to Guilty Pleas in Fraud Cases

Feb 18 2003 // District Court Judge John S. McGroarty accepted the guilty pleas of Warren Wright, 63, formerly of North Las Vegas, on two felony counts of insurance fraud. Wright agreed to pay $12,763.38 in restitution to the insurance...

Allstate Adjustor Found Guilty in Fraud Conspiracy

Feb 14 2003 // An insurance adjustor who allegedly defrauded Allstate Insurance Company and several Allstate-insured homeowners who suffered damages during the 1994 Northridge earthquake was recently convicted of federal fraud...

Fla. Construction Owner Charged With Workers’ Comp Fraud

Feb 14 2003 // A Brevard County, Fla., construction company owner has been charged with workers’ compensation insurance fraud after investigators with the Florida Department of Financial Services made an unannounced visit to one of...

Soda Delivery Driver Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud

Feb 14 2003 // Armando M. Villesca Sr. of Fort Stockton, Texas, pleaded guilty to charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. A Travis County District Court judge ordered Villesca to submit to three years of community...

Florida Roofing Co. Owners Face Fraud Charges

Feb 11 2003 // Florida’s Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher announced that the owners of an Orange County roofing company were arrested for workers’ compensation fraud and organized fraud. Investigators with the...

Woman Arraigned for WC Fraud

Feb 10 2003 // Emilia Sanchez, 37, was arraigned on workers’ compensation fraud charges in November, according to investigators with the California Department of Insurance Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. The...

Two Men Plead Guilty to Fraud Charges

Feb 10 2003 // Two San Fernando Valley, Calif. residents, Timothy Caffery, 24, and Jose David Duarte, 22, pled guilty to insurance fraud charges as a result of a four-month investigation by the CDI Urban Auto Fraud Task Force. The two...

CDI Busts Up Fraudulent Auto Scheme

Feb 10 2003 // CDI Fraud Division Investigators arrested four individuals after executing search warrants at their homes and an auto body repair shop located in Oakland. California residents Art Mercado, 56, of Alameda, Scott Carey, 31,...

Warsaw NY Woman Receives Prison Sentence for Arson Insurance Fraud

Feb 6 2003 // The NYSID announced that Victoria Walczak, of Warsaw, New York, has received a 2 to 6 year prison sentence from the Genesee County Court for arson. She was also ordered to pay restitution in the amount of $32,943.57 to two...

Calif. Nurse’s Technician Pleads Guilty to WC Fraud

Feb 5 2003 // Marsha Arlene Johnson, a 47-year-old resident of Inglewood, Calif., pleaded guilty to a felony charge of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Johnson was ordered to pay full restitution in the amount of $28,861.77,...

Louisiana Agent Booked on Multiple Charges

Feb 4 2003 // Acting Louisiana Insurance Commissioner Robert Wooley confirmed that a Monroe, La. insurance agent was arrested as a part of an ongoing statewide crackdown on insurance fraud being conducted by the La. Department of...

Rochester Man Sentenced to Prison for Insurance Fraud

Feb 4 2003 // Anthony Allen was sentenced to serve a term of two to four years in New York State Prison by Judge Patricia Marks in Monroe County Court, as a second felony offender, following his guilty plea on November 6, 2002 to...

Ariz. DOI Makes Arrests in Ariz./Calif. Auto Fraud Scheme

Jan 31 2003 // The Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit assisted the Phoenix Police Department’s Fugitive Apprehension and Investigations Detail in arresting Juan Reyes Marrufo, 35, Maricela Armenta, 34, and Cristina...

CDS Business Mapping Adds Crime Scores to the RiskMeter Online

Jan 31 2003 // CDS Business Mapping, a provider in online hazard mapping, has added crime scores to the RiskMeter Online (www.riskmeter.com). The scores use predictive modeling technology to estimate the risk of crime for any location in...

NAII Files Amicus Brief in Ill. Upholding Validity of Appraisal Clause in Claims

Jan 31 2003 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) filed an amicus brief this week with the Illinois Supreme Court to dispute an attempt by the Illinois trial bar to regulate the insurance industry in the...