Most Popular Fraud Headlines This Year
The most viewed headlines from our Fraud Topic Page over the last year.
#1 Longtime Alabama Dentist Charged With Insurance Fraud in 2025 Office Explosion
Jan 28 2026 // In March of 2025 a well-known dentist’s office exploded in the town of Evergreen, Alabama, near the Florida line. Today, the owner of that office, a dentist described as “very successful” and a...
#2 Florida Contractor in Fatal Fall Incident Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud
Feb 25 2025 // A Florida framing contractor has been sentenced to 48 months in prison and millions of dollars in fines and restitution after he failed to obtain workers’ compensation insurance and ignored safety practices, leading...
#3 Illinois USPS Employee Indicted for Alleged Workers’ Comp Fraud
Jan 26 2026 // A United States Postal Service employee has been indicted on federal fraud charges for allegedly collecting augmented workers’ compensation benefits to which she was not entitled, the U.S. Attorney’s Office,...
#4 Racketeering Suit Alleges NY Insurance Fraud Scheme by Lawyers, Medical Providers
Jun 19 2025 // A New York specialty insurance managing underwriter for contractors and construction risks has sued a New York City personal injury law firm and dozens of medical providers, alleging a wide-ranging scheme to defraud...
#5 Kansas Woman Sentenced for Insurance Fraud
Sep 2 2025 // A Kansas woman has been sentenced to 12 months of probation for insurance fraud. Kenna Robinson, 50, pleaded guilty in the Douglas County District Court to one felony count of insurance fraud. Robinson involved multiple...
#6 Five Charged in Multi-Million-Dollar Insurance Fraud Case
Apr 15 2025 // Five people have been charged in a large-scale insurance fraud scheme involving misrepresented life insurance policies that resulted in fraudulent commissions totaling over $1.4 million. The five, which include a former...
#7 Aon Adds to List of Brokers Suing Howden US for Alleged Poaching, Theft
Dec 15 2025 // A new broker is now suing Howden US and a pair of former employees for allegations of poaching and theft of trade secrets. Last week Aon Risk Services Cos. filed suit in U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New...
#8 South Florida Insurance Broker Pleads Guilty to Fraud in $133M ACA Enrollment Scheme
Apr 22 2025 // A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. Dafud Iza, 54,...
#9 Former Florida Broker, Others Charged in Insurance Fraud Schemes
Feb 20 2025 // One person in Texas and four people in Florida, including a previously licensed insurance broker, face insurance fraud charges in separate schemes, local and federal authorities said Wednesday. In Hialeah, Florida, three...
#10 Iowa Woman Charged With Insurance Fraud
Jan 13 2026 // Cristal Gale Kastantin, of Wheatland, Iowa, was arrested on January 3, 2026, on outstanding arrest warrants for committing insurance fraud, the Iowa Insurance Division announced. Kastantin was charged with one count of...
#11 Husband and Wife Sentenced for $20 Million Insurance Fraud Scheme
Jul 10 2025 // A Maryland husband and wife have been sentenced to 12 years in prison and four years in prison, respectively, after their convictions for a $20 million scheme to commit insurance fraud. In addition to their prison...
#12 Sugar Executive Charged With Stealing $28 Million From Candy Firm Mars
Mar 31 2025 // Before his arrest Wednesday, Paul Steed was a respected sugar market expert for a subsidiary of famed candymaker Mars Inc. He served on a U.S. trade advisory committee for sweeteners as well as on industry group boards,...
#13 AIG Can Continue Trade Secret Theft Allegations Against Dellwood
Mar 31 2025 // About a year into the litigation between American International Group and startup Dellwood Insurance Group, a federal judge will allow much of AIG’s lawsuit to proceed against its newest potential competitor in the...
#14 Texas Man Sentenced to 13 Years in Prison for Multi-Million Dollar Insurance Fraud
Feb 24 2025 // A Texas man was sentenced last week to more than 13 years in prison for constructing a $5 million insurance fraud scheme, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of Texas announced. Jordan Ford, 32, was charged...
#15 Kansas Man Sentenced to Probation for Insurance Fraud
Jan 2 2026 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt this week announced a Sedgwick county man has been sentenced to 18 months of probation for insurance fraud. Shawn Gales, age 37, pleaded guilty on December 18, 2025, in Sedgwick...
#16 Freight Broker Says $400K in Lobster Meat Stolen in Fictitious Pickup
Dec 30 2025 // A shipment of lobster meat worth $400,000 that was being held in a Massachusetts cold storage facility never made it to the Costco stores in the Midwest where it was supposed to be delivered. Instead, it appears it was...
#17 Husband and Wife Insurance Agents Charged With $700K Fraud Scheme
Aug 29 2025 // A Massachusetts couple was arrested this week for their alleged involvement in a scheme that defrauded at least 50 individuals or insurance providers of more than $700,000 through their insurance agency, BL Insurance...
#18 Uber Alleges Fraud Scheme by New York Groups Faking Car-Crash Injuries
Jan 31 2025 // Ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. filed a racketeering lawsuit against a group of law firms, doctors and pain-management clinics it claims staged fake car accidents and performed unnecessary surgeries to take...
#19 Another Kentucky Farmer Pleads Guilty to Crop Insurance Fraud
Apr 1 2025 // A Kentucky farmer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal crop insurance program of almost $1.5 million. Robert Thomas Hunt, of Taylor County in central Kentucky, asked grain haulers to sell...
#20 Lawsuit Alleges Farm Bureau Financial Concealed Fraudulent Activities
Nov 24 2025 // Two former top investigators for Farm Bureau Financial Services are suing the company for fraud, racketeering and wrongful termination. The lawsuit alleges the insurer’s management group knew of fraudulent activity...
