Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Former Iowa Insurance Claims Rep Pleads Guilty to Fraud Charge
Jul 2 2018 // A former claims representative in West Des Moines, Iowa, has pleaded guilty to defrauding an insurance company, the Iowa Insurance Division reported. Cora Harrington entered a guilty plea on June 25, 2018 to Fraudulent...
Former Hawaii Police Officer Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud
Jul 2 2018 // A former Honolulu, Hawaii police officer suspected of staging a home burglary pleaded guilty to two charges of insurance fraud related to the incident. Travis E. Copeland pleaded guilty last week and faces up to five years...
North Texas Attorney Charged with $400K Insurance Fraud
Jul 2 2018 // A Travis County grand jury has indicted a Texas attorney on charges of workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly billing clients for services that were not provided, false billing and tampering with a government...
Connecticut College Savings Plan Accounts Breached, $1.4M Taken
Jun 29 2018 // State Treasurer Denise Nappier announced Wednesday that 21 Connecticut Higher Education Trust college savings accounts were recently breached, resulting in more than $1.4 million in unauthorized withdrawals. Nappier said...
New Jersey Chiropractor Gets Prison Term for Medical Fraud Ring Role
Jun 27 2018 // A chiropractor involved in a medical fraud ring that bilked nearly $4 million overall from several insurers is now headed to prison. John Langeraap received a three-year sentence Friday. The 39-year-old Sparta, N.J., man...
Texas Attorney Sentenced for Insurance Fraud Involving Hail Claims
Jun 26 2018 // A former Texas attorney is headed to prison on charges of insurance fraud and barratry for a scheme involving fraudulent lawsuits filed after hail storms, the state insurance department announced. A Tarrant County judge...
Vermont School District Says $50K Stolen Electronically
Jun 26 2018 // A Vermont school district says $50,000 was stolen electronically from one of its bank accounts. Cindy Brownell, the board chair of the Pownal Elementary School District, says officials believe the theft occurred from...
Fine Art Theft Is Relatively Easy – but Selling Stolen Art Is Almost Impossible
Jun 26 2018 // Ten days ago, a Banksy print valued at about $40,000 was stolen from a Canadian exhibit of the artist’s work. It was a seemingly effortless crime—a man walked in, took the work off the wall, and walked out—but...
Florida Man Sentenced to Five Years’ Probation for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jun 25 2018 // A Trinity, Fla., man has been sentenced to five years’ probation, with the first six months to be served on home detention, for making a false statement in connection with his workers’ compensation benefits. As...
Timeline: More Than $1 Billion in Cryptocurrency Thefts Since September 2012
Jun 22 2018 // Investors’ shaky confidence in virtual currencies took another hit after crypto exchange Bithumb, ranked seventh in the world by traded value on Coinmarketcap.com, suffered a hack that saw about 35 billion won ($32...
Texas Attorney Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud
Jun 20 2018 // Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County grand jury has indicted attorney Leslie Casaubon of Lewisville, Texas, on three counts of workers’ compensation...
South Carolina Searching for Man Stealing Cars from Dealerships
Jun 20 2018 // Police across South Carolina are trying to find a man who is taking cars from dealerships across the state. Sumter County deputies said Monday the man most recently stole a new car from a Sumter dealership, drove it to...
Supreme Court to Hear Appeal Over Liability for Securities Fraud
Jun 18 2018 // The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday agreed to hear an appeal by a New York investment banker banned from the industry by the Securities and Exchange Commission in a case that could limit the scope of those who can be held...
Report Says Record Number of Data Breach Notices Filed in New York in 2017
Jun 18 2018 // The New York Attorney General’s Office (NYAG) this year released a report outlining a record number of data breach notices filed with the office in 2017 – the highest since NYAG started receiving data breach...
WCIRB: California Workers’ Comp Written Premium to be Down Again This Year
Jun 15 2018 // Lower workers’ compensation rates in California will bring down written premium once again this year, according to a forecast from the Workers’ Compensation Insurance Rating Bureau. That revelation is expected...
Delaware Couple Arrested for $100K Insurance Fraud
Jun 15 2018 // A Delaware couple has been arrested for insurance fraud after filing false medical claims for an automobile accident that never occurred, leading their insurance provider to be billed more than $100,000. “We take...
Iowa Insurance Agent Arrested, Charged with Fraud
Jun 14 2018 // The Iowa Insurance Division reported that a Madrid, Iowa, insurance agent has been charged with fraud after an investigation by the division’s fraud bureau. The IID said Joy Marie Heldt, age 48, was charged with...
California Doctor Indicted in $700K Workers’ Comp Fraud Scheme
Jun 13 2018 // Dr. Gary Royce Wisner, 61, of Lodi, Calif., is scheduled for arraignment today at the San Joaquin County Superior Court on 11 felony counts of insurance fraud for allegedly bilking insurers out of more than $700,000 by...
New York Top Court Narrows Martin Act in $11B Credit Suisse Case
Jun 13 2018 // New York’s highest court on Tuesday curbed the state attorney general’s ability to fight fraud on Wall Street, awarding a victory to Credit Suisse Group AG as it tries to end an $11 billion lawsuit over risky...
Florida Restoration Contractor Arrested Over $140K AOB Fraud Scheme
Jun 13 2018 // A restoration contractor company owner has been arrested over an alleged assignment of benefits (AOB) fraud scheme that impacted 19 homeowners in eight Florida counties and one Texas county, according to a statement from...
