Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
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...
Mendoza Looks for Nov. Triumph in Calif. Commissioner Race
Oct 14 2002 // Insurance Journal senior writer Dave Thomas recently interviewed Republican Insurance Commissioner candidate Gary Mendoza, the former Commissioner of Corporations about the upcoming election and the current issues facing...
Seven Found Guilty in Texas of Alleged Water/Mold Scheme
Oct 11 2002 // The Texas Department of Insurance (TDI) announced that seven people who were arrested in the Houston-area in connection with an alleged scheme to defraud insurance companies by intentionally flooding homes and filing bogus...
AAI Backs N.J. Anti-Fraud Initiatives
Oct 10 2002 // The Alliance of American Insurers (AAI) applauded anti-fraud initiatives unveiled by New Jersey Gov. James McGreevey during the 5th Annual New Jersey Insurance Fraud Summit. “The measures announced today by the...
Mariposa, Calif. Man Arrested for WC Fraud
Oct 10 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division assisted deputies from the Mariposa County Sheriff’s Department in the arrest of a convicted sex...
Florida Agent and his Mother Arrested
Oct 9 2002 // Florida Department of Insurance investigators arrested a former licensed insurance agent and his mother, who served as office manager, on charges of selling insurance without a license and issuing fraudulent certificates...
Calif. Auto Fraud Ring Arrested
Oct 9 2002 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, with the assistance of the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), obtained arrest warrants for six suspects after a...
N.Y. Man Charged with Fraudulent Claim on House Fire
Oct 2 2002 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Gregory Serio announced that Larry Dornburgh of Roseboom, N.Y. had been arrested and charged with two counts of insurance fraud. Dornburgh allegedly attempted to defraud both Utica...
Ohio Man Sentenced to Jail for WTC Fraud
Oct 1 2002 // A Court in Butler County, Ohio sentenced Ajay Chawla to serve one year in jail and pay a $1,500 fine following his conviction last August on charges of filing an insurance claim with CNA, stating that his father was...
Woman Faces 10 Fraud Counts
Sep 30 2002 // An Oakland woman was arraigned as the result of an investigation by the CDI’s Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division. Jeanette Deran, 52, surrendered to a $70,000 arrest warrant charging her with...
Modesto Woman Accused of Auto Ins. Fraud
Sep 30 2002 // Lakisha Nicole Langston, 22, of Modesto, Calif., surrendered to authorities in Stanislaus County on three counts of insurance fraud. Langston purchased an auto insurance policy from Infinity Insurance Company on Sept. 21,...
