Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
N.C. Residents Arrested in Fraud Case
Nov 4 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long and Wilkes County Sheriff Dane Mastin announced that Darryl Edward Billings and Jennifer Lyn Billings of North Wilkesboro were arrested recently on charges of Obtaining...
Identity Fraud Expense Coverage Seminar Accessible Via Online Recording
Nov 4 2002 // Property/casualty professionals can learn about coverage for identity fraud expenses by accessing an online recording of a Web seminar on the topic, held recently by the American Association of Insurance Services...
Dental Assistant Arrested for WC Fraud
Nov 4 2002 // In the evening of Oct. 30, 2002, California Department of Insurance (CDI) Fraud Division Investigators and Windsor Police Officers arrested Judith Lee Marciel (AKA Judith Lee Delgado, Judith Lee Douglas, Judith Lee Latch,...
Trio Arrested for Reported Involvement in Calif. Auto Fraud Scam
Nov 1 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Organized Auto Fraud Interdiction Task Force arrested a Rio Linda woman, along with her former common-law husband and his brother-in-law on multiple charges...
W. Va. Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Oct 30 2002 // Peggy Ann Cox of West Virginia has pled guilty in federal court on two counts of fraud. According to The Charleston Gazette, Cox made the plea to Chief U.S. District Judge Charles Haden II, admitting that between December...
ISO Introduces New Identity-Theft Expense Coverage
Oct 28 2002 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) has introduced a new optional endorsement under its Homeowners 2000 program that insurers can offer homeowners and other consumers to protect themselves against the growing crime of...
PIANY Lauds Court’s Upholding of No-Fault Fraud Regulations
Oct 28 2002 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. (PIANY) praised the Appellate Division, First Department Court in Manhattan for its unanimous decision on Wednesday to uphold new rules by the New York State...
Father & Son Brokers Plead Guilty to Grand Theft
Oct 28 2002 // Following a combined three-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and Investigation Bureau, two Sacramento residents appeared in Sacramento...
Calif. Workers’ Comp: The Road to Rehabilitation
Oct 28 2002 // We all know what the problems are in the California workers’ compensation market, and now it’s time for the solutions. With the upcoming election well underway, California will soon see a new Insurance...
‘Fast and Fraudulent’ Sting Op Nets 30+ Arrests
Oct 28 2002 // Several people were arrested for auto insurance fraud as the result of a six-month sting operation dubbed “The Fast and the Fraudulent,” conducted by the Regional Auto Theft Task Force (RATTF) and the Organized...
Pair Arrested on Auto Fraud Charges
Oct 28 2002 // John Lee Sullivan, 50, of Applegate and Debra Michell Sprigg, 42, of Sacramento were arrested and charged with two counts of felony insurance fraud. The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations...
Broker Guilty of Felony Grand Theft
Oct 28 2002 // Marc Laurence Ellen, 41, of Thousand Oaks, Calif. was sentenced in Ventura County Superior Court to serve 10 days in county jail, pay restitution, and complete 36 months of formal probation after pleading guilty to one...
ALLEGED FRAUD IN GUN BARREL CITY
Oct 28 2002 // Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County Grand Jury indicted Stan and Cynthia Doze, operators of Doze Construction Co. Inc., on a second-degree felony charge related to workers’ compensation premium...
Brooklyn Police Officers Charged in Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Oct 24 2002 // Three police officers of the 61st Precinct in Brooklyn, N.Y. have been charged with insurance fraud after allegedly falsifying at least two dozen auto accident reports resulting in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent...
AAIS Develops Endorsements Covering Expenses of Identity Fraud Victims
Oct 23 2002 // Insurers nationwide will soon have standard forms for offering coverage for the expenses their policyholders incur if they become victims of the growing crime of “identity fraud.” The American Association of...
Former Fla. Agent Accused of Stealing
Oct 23 2002 // The Florida Department of Insurance fraud division announced that Jay J. Gelfenbaum, a former investment advisor and insurance agent, surrendered to investigators. He is accused of stealing thousands of dollars from at...
Ohio Insurance Director Names Robert Smith Chief of Fraud and Enforcement
Oct 21 2002 // Ohio Insurance Director Lee Covington announced the appointment of Robert F. Smith to coordinate the Department’s investigation of insurance-related, white-collar crime as the Department’s Chief of Fraud and...
Woman Charged with 40 Counts of Ins. Fraud, Theft, Arson
Oct 18 2002 // Marcia Johnson, 42 , of Alpine, recently pleaded not guilty to charges of insurance fraud, burglary, grand theft, theft from an elder and arson, in the case of a 71-year-old missing man, according to the Inland Valley...
Texas Construction Co. Indicted for Fraud
Oct 16 2002 // A Travis County (Texas) Grand Jury indicted Stan and Cynthia Doze, operators of Doze Construction Co. Inc., on a second-degree felony charge related to workers’ compensation premium fraud. The Doze Construction Co....
JUDGE DISMISSES J.P. MORGAN FRAUD CLAIM
Oct 14 2002 // A federal judge has dismissed J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.’s fraud claim levied against 11 insurers, possibly derailing the company’s attempt to gather approximately $1 billion in losses resulting in trade...
