Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Four Southern Californians Arrested for Employer Premium Fraud Scheme
Jul 12 2000 // Following a nine-month investigation, Mostafa Behesti, 43, and Rahimi Morteza, 59, owners of Castello Inc., along with bookkeeper Emma Luz Guerzon, 46, and Margaro Haro, 37, owner of Haro’s Landscaping, were all...
Life in the Fast Lane
Jul 10 2000 // Three Southern California residents— Raul Eduardo Pero, 58; Monique Liza Pero, 24, Raul’s daughter; and Emma Gloria Alcaraz (a.k.a. Gloria Emma Barrett), 65, of Los Angeles—have been charged with insurance fraud...
Ex-aide to Quackenbush target of criminal probe
Jun 30 2000 // One day after the resignation of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a former aide has been targeted in a criminal probe alleging he accepted kickbacks while on the job. Attorney General Bill Lockyer opened the...
U.S. Attorney Cracks $1.3 Million Auto Body Repair Scam
Jun 22 2000 // A Worcester, Mass. man was charged Wednesday with operating an auto body shop that routinely inflicted damage on cars brought in for repair and defrauded insurance companies by submitting false claims for the extra...
Insurance Companies Sue Denver Chiropractic Clinics
Jun 21 2000 // June 21, 2000 9:35 a.m. CDT Allstate Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Progressive Casualty Company and three of its affiliates, served summons and complaints throughout the Denver area last Thursday...
New York DOI Arrests 18 for Insurance Fraud
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that 18 individuals were arrested following an undercover sting investigation involving a garage that functioned as a “chop shop”. The...
Operation Cleansheet is Soiled
Jun 12 2000 // Nine suspects were arrested on May 18 following a 15-month joint investigation code-named “Operation Cleansheet,” conducted by the CDI Bureau of Investigations and Fraud Division, the FBI, the U.S....
Honeymoon’s Over
Jun 12 2000 // In conclusion to one of the largest workers’ comp fraud cases in San Diego county history, Doug and Ricki Stricker of Escondido, Calif., and owners of the Stricker Organization, a well-known roofing company, have...
Working for a Living
Jun 12 2000 // Steven Alan Ford of Norco, Calif., was recently arrested on workers’ compensation fraud. According to CDI fraud investigators, the 47-year-old man filed a w/c claim in 1995 for an injury sustained to his back. He...
N.Y. Insurance Fraud Conviction
Jun 7 2000 // Anthony Callicchio, owner of General Auto Glass Repair in New York, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to make full restitution after pleading guilty for defrauding Cerebral Palsy Transport’s...
NICB Report Shows Higher Risk for Vehicle Theft in Port and Border Communities
Jun 7 2000 // The NICB analysis reported that close to 450,000 cars and trucks were stolen countrywide in 1998 in metropolitan areas with ports or close to international borders. Each year more than 200,000 vehicles are exported...
NetDetect Weighs Risk of Fraud at All Stages of Claims Lifecycle
Jun 5 2000 // Scheduled for release later this year, NetDetect scores claims for potential fraud — not just at first notice of loss — but throughout the claims lifecycle. The announcement was made at IASA 2000, the Insurance...
Mother/Son Clinic Operators Guilty of Insurance Fraud in Massachusetts
May 31 2000 // The operators of a Lowell, Mass. medical clinic catering to patients claiming injuries from automobile accidents have pled guilty to charges of operating a scheme to defraud automobile insurance providers between 1993 and...
Arizona DOI Sponsors Fraud Awareness Event at D-Back Game
May 30 2000 // Last week, as the Arizona Diamondbacks faced the Pittsburgh Pirates at Bank One Ballpark, the Department of Insurance (DOI) staff members were joined by McGruff, the Crime Dog to spread the message that insurance fraud...
It Takes One to Know One
May 29 2000 // Tina Marie Gains of Elk Grove was arrested and charged with five felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of unemployment benefits fraud. The 42-year-old woman allegedly made false statements in order to...
Taking a Bite Out of Fraud
May 15 2000 // Thanks to the Arizona Department of Insurance Fraud Unit, the Department of Public Safety, the Phoenix Police Department, and the help of a forensic odontologist, a 30-year-old Phoenix man with a broken front tooth who is...
Rock Star Singing the Blues
May 1 2000 // Larry Ollison, a former member of the rock band The Platters, pled guilty of one felony count of insurance fraud. According to CDI fraud investigators, the 50-year-old Stockton man filed roughly 22 false claims with...
American Names Set to Take on Lloyd’s of London on Home Turf
Apr 24 2000 // The accusations are fierce, the stories heart-wrenching. Lost homes, marriages, fortunes and even lives are piling up on the doorstep of Lloyd’s of London, which has been accused for years of not disclosing potential...
Colorado Bill Aims To Strengthen Fraud Investigations
Apr 18 2000 // The Colorado House Business Affairs and Labor Committee unanimously approved a bill allowing insurance companies to share with each other information about suspected fraud cases. The bill requires insurers to report fraud...
COW TOWN CONVICT
Apr 10 2000 // Dr. Hubert Cameron Gibson III has been convicted of nine counts of mail fraud and one count of income tax evasion. Gibson, the owner of New Beginnings Rehabilitation and Turning Point centers in Fort Worth, was indicted...
