Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Insurance Fraud Violator Jailed
May 27 2002 // Steven W. Schermerhorn of Sandy, Utah, is spending 30 days in jail for insurance fraud. In October 1999, Schermerhorn suffered water damage in his basement as a result of a hose left running in a neighbor’s yard....
Orange County Woman Pleads Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 27 2002 // Noel DeSota of Orange County was arrested by CDI fraud investigators and was sentenced to serve 60 days in Orange County Jail, complete 120 hours of community service, three years probation, and pay a $200 court...
Doctor Files Fraudulent Workers’ Comp Claims
May 27 2002 // The CDI arrested a Redding man on six felony counts of insurance fraud, six counts of grand theft and one count of conspiracy. Richard W. Powell, M.D., 43, was arrested at his office in Redding, Calif. and booked into the...
LA Civilian Employee Convicted for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 27 2002 // A former Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) civilian employee, pled no contest to one count of felony insurance fraud for allegedly filing a false workers’ compensation claim. Richard Montellano...
Long Beach Woman Surrenders to Fraud Charges
May 27 2002 // A Long Beach, Calif., woman surrendered on an outstanding warrant related to felony insurance fraud charges. Yvonne Boyce allegedly slipped and fell while on the job in 1998 injuring her shoulder. She proceeded to receive...
NY Fraud Investigators Charge 12 in Stolen Car Insurance Scam
May 24 2002 // Twelve persons have been arrested in a sting operation in Queens, charged with falsely reporting that their vehicles had been stolen and collecting the insurance proceeds, totaling around half a million dollars. The...
Oakland Man Accused of Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 22 2002 // William Hall, 65, of Oakland, surrendered to authorities on 23 counts of insurance fraud. Hall was arrested and booked into the Alameda County Jail, but later released on $10,000 bail, according to the California...
Farmers Home Group Offers Identity Theft Protection Plan
May 16 2002 // Minnesota-based Farmers Home Group is partnering with PromiseMark, ™ Inc. of Fairfax, Va., to offer the comprehensive Identity Theft Protection Plan through the FHG Network at www.farmershome.com. Farmers Home said the...
Ventura Co., Calif. Man Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 16 2002 // Following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division, Todd Owen Balcom was arrested at his residence in Port Hueneme pursuant to an arrest warrant...
Bogus Calif. Agent Arrested on Grand Theft Charges
May 15 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Investigations Bureau arrested Scott D. Veitch, 35, vice president of Golf Marketing World Wide LLC. Veitch, who is not...
Modesto, Calif. Man Surrenders on Fraud Charges
May 14 2002 // Investigators with the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division arrested a Modesto man on two counts of insurance fraud. If convicted, Jose Munoz could face up to five...
NY Judge Orders Prison for WTC Fraud
May 13 2002 // U.S. District Judge Mary Ann Vial Lemmon ordered Jihad Razzaq, a 35-year old illegal immigrant from Palestine, to serve 15 months in federal prison for making a false claim to the New York Life Insurance Co. that his wife...
Los Angeles Family Members Plead No Contest to Auto Fraud Charges
May 13 2002 // Three Los Angeles residents have pled no contest earlier in the week to charges of auto insurance fraud. David Chatalbashyan, 26, and his wife Aida Karapetyan, 26, of Glendale, and Chatalbashyan’s mother, Knarik...
CALIF. CITIES MAKE DUBIOUS TOP 10 IN AUTO-THEFT LIST
May 13 2002 // Fresno, Calif., Sacramento, Calif., and Stockton, Calif. made a rather unwanted list—the top 10 in a study and list naming the metropolitan areas with the most auto thefts in the nation for 2001—according to the San...
NYSID Frauds Bureau Receives Kane Award from Auto Theft Investigators
May 10 2002 // The Northeast Chapter of the International Association of Auto Theft Investigators (IAATI) recognized the New York State Insurance Department’s Frauds Bureau for outstanding achievement in the field of fraud...
LexisNexis™ Insurance Solutions Launched to Facilitate Investigations and Information Verification
May 9 2002 // News and information provider LexisNexis™ has launched an online investigative tool for insurers, LexisNexis™ Insurance Solutions, using public records’ collections to facilitate investigations and information...
Calif. Cities Make Dubious Top 10 in Auto-Theft List
May 6 2002 // Fresno, Calif., Sacramento, Calif., and Stockton, Calif. made a rather unwanted list—the top 10 in a study and list naming the metropolitan areas with the most auto thefts in the nation for 2001—according to the...
NYSID Lauds Passage of ‘Runners’ Bill
May 2 2002 // New York’s Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio lauded yesterday’s passage in the State Senate of S.123, a bill which would create new felony crimes for insurance fraud involving “runners”. The...
Royal and SunAlliance Investigates Alleged Fraudulent Use of Name
Apr 30 2002 // Royal & SunAlliance USA announced that it is investigating the unauthorized and apparent fraudulent use of its name to offer various insurance and financial products through print advertisements and the Internet. The...
Premium Variance Reveals Nationwide Savings for Consumers
Apr 29 2002 // You’re leaving money on the table, and there are savings to be added if you’re willing to spend some energy looking for it.” Those are the sentiments of Alex Ho, consumer brand director for Progressive...
