Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Calif. Correctional Officer Arrested on Two Counts of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 24 2001 // A California Department of Corrections Correctional Officer surrendered to a Riverside Court last week on two felony charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. The suspect allegedly failed to notify his...
Dallas Janitorial Company Guilty of Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jul 23 2001 // AM-KO Inc., a janitorial company providing services for the City of Dallas, entered a plea of “no contest” to a third degree felony for defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund (Texas...
Texas Farmers Plead Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud
Jul 23 2001 // Three Nolan County, Texas, farmers pleaded guilty in a Lubbock federal court July 12 to filing over $540,000 in fraudulent crop insurance claims with the federal government. According to the Lubbock Avalanche-Journal, the...
Orange County Man Charged With Fraud
Jul 19 2001 // The California Department of Insurance announced that Raymond Ellis Wilson, Orange County, Calif., was charged with four felony counts of insurance fraud and booked into an Orange County Central jail last week, and bail...
CDI Arrests Fresno Couple on Charges of Insurance Fraud
Jul 13 2001 // A pair of Fresno, Calif., residents were arrested following a 10-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Criminal Investigations Branch’s Fraud Division and several other task forces,...
NAII Says Calif. Bill Would Hinder Fraud-Fighting Tactics
Jul 10 2001 // The National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII) announced that the California Assembly Insurance Committee on July 11 will hold a hearing to debate legislation that would impede insurer efforts to investigate...
RI Chiropractor Loses License For Insurance Fraud
Jul 9 2001 // Rhode Island’s Medical Disciplinary Board has revoked Chiropractor Andrew J. Lombardi’s license to practice in the State following an indictment in Massachusetts alleging that that he had submitted 39...
House Committee Approves Financial Services Anti-fraud Bill
Jul 9 2001 // Federal legislation aimed at helping prevent fraud from within the ranks of the rapidly converging financial service sector has been voted out of the House Financial Services Committee. This legislation — the Fin-ancial...
Indicted for Insurance Fraud
Jul 9 2001 // A Travis County grand jury has indicted Houston businessman Randall C. Long on charges of defrauding the Texas Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fund of some $167,000 in premiums. With the indictment, Long, owner of ST...
NICB Reports Efforts to Fund Models for Street/Drag Racing Can Lead to Fraud
Jul 2 2001 // According to the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), illegal street racing may be “Fast and Furious” as a popular film suggests, but the real production is largely funded by fraud and theft. The popular...
eTailer Alliance Aims to Fight Online Credit Card Fraud
Jun 27 2001 // RC Knox & Company, the insurance agency subsidiary of People’s Bank, announced the formation of the eFraud Alliance and the eTailer Fraud Solution Insurance Policy (eFSIP) to protect online businesses from the...
Auto Dismantler Arrested for Auto Insurance Fraud
Jun 26 2001 // Following a six-month investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI), Organized Automobile Fraud Interdiction Task Force, a former Sacramento auto dismantler was arrested on four felony counts of insurance...
4X4 For Fraud
Jun 25 2001 // CDI fraud investigators arrested a Fresno resident, Kyle Cory Bettencourt, 27, on auto insurance fraud charges on May 22, 2001 and booked him into the Fresno County Jail. Bettencourt was charged with four felony counts of...
Temp Could Do Time on Fraud Charges
Jun 25 2001 // CDI investigators arrested Martha Rodriquez of Riverside on charges of workers’ compensation fraud and perjury. Rodriquez, 37, also known as Graciela Castro, was booked into Riverside County Jail on a $5,000 felony...
Insurance Co. Alleges Theft
Jun 22 2001 // Cincinnati, Ohio-based Great American Insurance Co. went to U.S. Bankruptcy Court in an attempt to rescind a crime insurance policy it had issued to the now defunct Tri-State Armored Services of Hammonton. The insurer...
CPCU Society, NICB Join Together to Provide Education During Insurance Fraud Prevention Week
Jun 22 2001 // In an effort to educate consumers nationwide about insurance fraud and the price we all pay for these crimes, the Chartered Property Casualty Underwriters (CPCU) Society and National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) released...
Former San Diego Agent Receives Seven Year Sentence
Jun 21 2001 // The California Department of Insurance (CDI) announced that Ronald Allen Prasky, 31, owner and operator of Border Pacific Insurance Services, was sentenced in San Diego Superior Court today to seven years in state prison....
PA Couple Given 14 Years in Faked Death Insurance Fraud
Jun 20 2001 // Lee Likhit Kongsiri and his wife Phatcha, former Lehigh County residents, were each given 14 year prison terms for defrauding six different life insurers a total of $1.6 million by faking Lee’s death in Thailand in...
NICB Says Insurance Fraud Scams Not Uncommon
Jun 20 2001 // A report by the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) notes that the most common insurance fraud schemes include anyone from organized criminals, corrupt doctors, lawyers and body shop operators to residents who pad...
Fraud Probe Launched in Independent Collapse
Jun 19 2001 // The U.K.’s Financial Services Authority, which oversees the insurance industry, has asked the country’s serious fraud office to investigate certain aspects surrounding the collapse of Independent Insurance Co.,...
