Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feds Stop ‘Bumper Car’ Fraud Scheme
Nov 20 2000 // Federal authorities charged 53 people last week in a $1 million insurance fraud scheme in New York. The FBI arrested 29 suspects, including the managers of a physical therapy clinic. The rest were being sought, except for...
Illinois Insurance Fraud Task Force Makes Recommendations
Nov 20 2000 // The Illinois Insurance Fraud Task Force has unveiled recommendations to create more detailed reporting requirements and a whistle blower statute to combat organized insurance fraud in Illinois. Director of Insurance Nat...
Liberty Mutual Suit Accuses New Jersey Chiropractor of Intricate Fraud Scheme
Nov 16 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. served summons and complaints this week against Scott Greenberg, D.C., a New Jersey chiropractor whom the company claims defrauded personal injury protection benefits through an intricate...
Connecticut to Host Insurance Fraud Summit
Nov 15 2000 // The Connecticut Insurance Department will be hosting its second annual Insurance Fraud Summit on Nov. 21, 2000 in Hartford, Conn. The summit will be a day-long event featuring state and national experts, including Howard...
Baldwin Park Woman Turns Herself in For Auto Fraud, Grand Theft
Nov 15 2000 // Elvira Marcela Santamaria of Baldwin Park, Calif., turned herself in to the Tulare Superior Court, Visalia Division, after learning a five-count auto insurance fraud and grand theft warrant had been issued for her...
National Insurance Crime Bureau Lists Top Autos Targeted by Thieves
Nov 14 2000 // Thieves continue to find sport utility vehicles, pickup trucks, and mini-vans attractive targets. According to a new study conducted by the National Insurance Crime Bureau, a not-for-profit insurance organization committed...
Madera County Calif. Woman Arrested for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Nov 13 2000 // A Madera County, Calif. woman was arrested last week on workers’ comp fraud charges. Jennelle Nanleen Allen, 38, was arrested by the California Department of Insurance and Madera District Attorney’s Office...
Special Investigative Units Battle Insurance Fraud, ‘Crime of the ’90s’
Nov 13 2000 // People outside the industry are always surprised to learn how much fraud insurance companies are actually forced to deal with. It wasn’t until fairly recently, in the late 1980s, that insurance companies and local,...
His Crime Doesn’t Compute
Nov 13 2000 // Following a 17-month investigation, Evangelos Tsorakis of Elk Grove, Calif., was arrested at his residence yesterday on four felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of perjury. The 47-year-old man was booked...
37 Indicted in Auto Insurance Fraud
Nov 10 2000 // An insurance fraud ring run by Ukrainian and Russian immigrants was broken up Thursday with the arrest of 22 people involved in selling cars then allegedly reporting them stolen. In all, 37 people were indicted in the...
Sacramento Man Arrested on Three Felony Counts of Insurance Fraud
Nov 8 2000 // On the night of Nov. 6, David Wayne Derr was arrested at his residence and booked into Sacramento County Jail for insurance fraud. If convicted, the 42-year-old man could face up to five years in state prison and/or a...
Arizona DOI Fraud Unit Investigation Leads to No-Contest Pleas
Nov 3 2000 // An investigation by the Arizona Department of Insurance (DOI) Fraud Unit led to no-contest pleas last week in Maricopa County Superior Court by three owners of Phoenix, Ariz.-based Advantage Auto Glass LLC in connection...
Liberty Mutual Files Suit Against Psychological Group
Nov 2 2000 // Liberty Mutual Insurance Co. has served summons and complaints against New Jersey’s Spring Lake Psychological Group, and its owners Warren L. Goldberg and Carmela Gutierrez, for allegedly engaging in a fraudulent...
Bakersfield Residents Arrested on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Nov 2 2000 // California Department of Insurance Investigators in conjunction with Kern County District Attorney’s Office arrested Bakersfield residents Lonzoe Richard Hart, 64, and Barbara Jean Cornelius, 52, on workers’...
FBI Arrests 12 People Involved in Highly Organized Fraud Ring
Oct 31 2000 // The efforts of FBI agents and Los Angeles police officers have led to the arrest of 12 people involved in a highly organized fraud ring that staged auto accidents to steal millions of dollars from insurance companies. The...
17 New Yorkers Charged with Workers Comp Fraud
Oct 23 2000 // Seventeen individuals have been charged with bilking the New York Insurance Fund and other carriers of over $130,000 in workers’ comp benefits by falsely claiming they were disabled, said New York Superintendent of...
Survey Reveals Insurers Top Fraud Concerns
Oct 20 2000 // According to a recent survey compiled by the National Association of Independent Insurers (NAII), medical fraud rings, staged auto accidents, arson, and workers’ comp scams top the list of fraud concerns for the...
CDI Won’t Pay Quackenbush’s Legal Fees for Criminal Investigation
Oct 20 2000 // California Insurance Commissioner Harry Low released a statement yesterday that the California Department of Insurance (CDI) will not pay legal fees for former Commissioner Quackenbush, William Palmer; George Grays or...
Yahoo Launches New Initiatives to Insure Purchases Against Fraud
Oct 17 2000 // Yahoo Inc. launched a new program backed by coverage from Lloyd’s of London to protect purchases made on its auction and shopping sites. According to Brian Fitzgerald, producer for Yahoo auctions, the move is...
Massachusetts Men Charged with Insurance Fraud
Oct 2 2000 // Albert F. Melchione, 71, of Rockland, Mass., and his grandson, Richard J. Melchione, Jr., 30, of Hull, Mass., have been indicted by a federal grand jury on conspiracy and mail fraud charges in connection with a scheme to...
