Latest Law Enforcement Headlines
All the headlines from our Law Enforcement Topic Page, ordered by recency.
4 NYPD Officers, 12 Others Charged in Auto Fraud Case; OneBeacon Helped Investigators
Nov 17 2003 // The New York State Insurance Department announced that 16 people, includng four current and one former NYPD officer, have been charged with grand larceny and other offenses in the theft of nearly a quarter of a million...
N.J. Mother, Son Sentenced for Auto Fraud & Official Bribery Scam
Oct 9 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an East Orange mother and son were sentenced for their reported participation in an organized scheme to illegally obtain valid police accident reports in order to...
N.J. Man Sentenced for Participation in Phony Staged Auto Accident Scheme
Sep 10 2003 // New Jersey Attorney General Peter Harvey announced that an Essex County man has been sentenced in Superior Court for his reported role in an organized scheme to illegally obtain official police accident reports in order to...
Former Fla. Policeman Charged with Aiding PIP Fraud
May 9 2003 // A former detective in the Hialeah Police Department was arrested on charges that he filed several fictitious accident reports to create “patients” for a friends’ medical clinic, according to the Florida...
PIANY Says Increased Motor Vehicle Fees are Misdirected
May 1 2003 // The Professional Insurance Agents of New York State Inc. has issued a statement indicating that the state budget proposal to raise the current $1 annual Motor Vehicle Law Enforcement Fee to $5 is misdirected. “If the...
Fraud Charges Filed in Two Counties Against North Carolinian
Dec 19 2002 // North Carolina Insurance Commissioner Jim Long, in conjunction with Chief Tom McCarthy of the Fayetteville Police Department and Chief Tommy Hagens of the St. Pauls Police Department, announced the arrest of Eugenia Rose...
$100,000 in Stolen Equipment Recovered in Pa.
Nov 28 2002 // A new partnership between the National Equipment Register (NER) and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) is beginning to put a dent in heavy equipment theft with the recovery of more than $100,000 in stolen equipment...
N.Y. Fraud Investigation Results in 71 Arrests
Nov 22 2002 // Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown, Police Commissioner Raymond W. Kelly and New York State Insurance Superintendent Gregory V. Serio, announced today that 28 car owners and 43 other individuals have been arrested...
Police Reports Now Available Via ISO’s All-Claims System
Nov 12 2002 // Insurance Services Office Inc. (ISO) now offers police reports as part of its public records offering on the ISO ClaimSearch® antifraud system. The enhancement of ISO ClaimSearch service includes access through its...
Former Miami Policeman Charged With Buying Accident Reports
Nov 5 2002 // Florida Treasurer and Insurance Commissioner Tom Gallagher announced that a former City of Miami police officer is facing numerous felony charges after he allegedly bought more than 280 police accident reports for $25 each...
Brooklyn Police Officers Charged in Auto Insurance Fraud Scheme
Oct 24 2002 // Three police officers of the 61st Precinct in Brooklyn, N.Y. have been charged with insurance fraud after allegedly falsifying at least two dozen auto accident reports resulting in more than $1.5 million in fraudulent...
Police Dispatcher Arrested for Fraud
Sep 2 2002 // A Vacaville, California Police Department dispatcher was charged with three counts of felony insurance fraud. Lenette Weishaar, 42, of Vallejo, Calif. allegedly injured her lower back on Oct. 26, 1994, when she slipped and...
Chubb Hosts Security Seminar for N.J. Police
Aug 26 2002 // The Chubb Group of Insurance Companies announced it has completed a two-day security evaluation seminar for New Jersey police and emergency service officials. The seminar was intended to assist law enforcement and other...
Workers’ Comp Fraud Investigation Leads to Felony Arrest of Calif. Police Dispatcher
Jul 30 2002 // Lenette Weishaar, 42, of Vallejo, Calif., was arrested and charged with three counts of felony insurance fraud in one of the largest individual workers’ compensation fraud cases in the city of Vacaville. Weishaar was...
21 More Persons Arrested in NY Auto Fraud Scam
Jun 20 2002 // The New York State Insurance Department announced the arrest of an additional 21 persons (112 were indicted last December), charged with participating in an auto fraud insurance ring in Queens. The NYSID said that the...
Is the Texas Personal Auto Market Another Homeowners in the Making’
Apr 29 2002 // The personal automobile insurance market in Texas may not be approaching the crisis level at which the homeowners market currently finds itself, but signs indicate that it may be in for a rough ride. According to the Texas...
Calls Being Made for Safe Driving Practices
Apr 29 2002 // The fundamental question is, does irresponsible use of cell phones while driving cause more accidents? Nicole Mahrt, American Insurance Association director of public affairs (western region), says that her association...
Police Smash Massive NYC Auto Insurance
Dec 6 2001 // Law enforcement officials announced the break up of a multi-million dollar automobile insurance fraud ring in the New York metropolitan area, resulting in charges being filed against 112 individuals and four corporations...
U.S. Financial Firms, Law Enforcement Seek Ways to Track Terrorists
Nov 28 2001 // The leading U.S. financial firms and law enforcement agencies are mulling over an agreement that would give authorities sweeping power to track terrorists using the financial system, the Wall Street Journal reported. The...
Police Question AXA’s de Castries, Bébéar in
Jun 13 2001 // French police detained and questioned AXA’s Management Board Chairman Henri de Castries, and his predecessor the company’s founder Claude Bébéar, who now presides over its Supervisory Board, about...
