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Four in La. Accused of Torching Apartment for Insurance
Jul 19 2007 // A 26-year-old woman has been accused of hiring men to set fire to her public housing apartment in Reserve, La., for $20,000 in insurance. After the men allegedly torched two other apartments by mistake, the renter hired...
Six R.I. State Departments Lose Electricity
Jul 11 2007 // Rhode Island crews were working Monday evening to restore electricity to six state departments that lost power earlier in the day because of an underground electrical fire, officials said. The outages at the Pastore Campus...
Five Uninsured, Unlicensed Contractors Arrested in South Lake Tahoe
Jul 6 2007 // California Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner announced the results of the first undercover operation stemming from the Angora Fire in South Lake Tahoe. The operation took place at a residence in the disaster area that...
Two houses lay destroyed and toppled outside New Orleans after
Jun 18 2007 // Hurricane Katrina.
Two Sentenced in Los Angeles for Capping, Fraud
May 23 2007 // A California medical clinic administrator and law office administator have been sentenced for insurance fraud. According to the California Department of Insurance, Magdalena Zanoletti, 54, a medical clinic administrator,...
Three Calif. Doctors Arrested in Outpatient Surgery Center Scam
May 17 2007 // The California Department of Insurance and the Orange County District Attorney’s Office have arrested three doctors for medical fraud. The doctors are the latest charged defendants in what’s being dubbed the...
Eleven West Virginia Counties Added to Federal Disaster List
May 14 2007 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has added 11 West Virginia counties to an earlier disaster declaration by President Bush stemming from last month’s flooding. The additional counties that can seek federal...
Three in Mass. Plead Guilty in $30 Million Unreported Payroll Scheme
May 3 2007 // Three Quincy, Mass. residents pleaded guilty on Tuesday as their federal trial was to begin on charges they failed to pay required taxes and insurance for hundreds of temporary workers over a decade. Prosecutors said the...
Three More Charged in Probe of Ohio Workers’ Comp Bureau
Apr 19 2007 // Three former employees of the state’s insurance fund for injured workers were charged with accepting golf outings, meals and other items from investment firms seeking to do business with the state, authorities said...
Two charged in bicoastal restaurant insurance brokerage scam
Apr 9 2007 // A Canadian man has been extradited to the United States to face trial on charges that he swindled $7 million from the victims of a fraudulent commercial insurance policy scheme, Acting New York Insurance Superintendent...
Two charged in bicoastal restaurant insurance brokerage scheme
Apr 9 2007 // A Canadian man has been extradited to the U.S. to face trial on charges that he swindled $7 million from the victims of a fraudulent commercial insurance policy scheme, according to Acting New York Insurance Superintendent...
Two charged in bicoastal restaurant insurance brokerage scam
Apr 9 2007 // A Canadian man has been extradited to the United States to face trial on charges that he swindled $7 million from the victims of a fraudulent commercial insurance policy scheme, Acting New York Insurance Superintendent...
Three Arrested in La. for Alleged Insurance Fraud Scheme
Mar 28 2007 // The Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud and Auto Theft Unit recently announced the arrest of Jeomalyeous Thomas, 24, Eric Mayberry, 29, and Larry Henson, 27, on felony insurance fraud warrants stemming from an alleged...
Two Indicted on Workers’ Compensation Fraud Charges
Mar 27 2007 // An Albuquerque couple has been accused of defrauding the New Mexico Workers’ Compensation Administration. Rafael and Elvia M. Herrera, owners of Rafa’s Roofing Inc., were indicted on charges of forgery; fraud;...
Three ways to bag more personal lines sales
Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...
Three ways to bag more personal lines sales
Mar 26 2007 // The Post Office isn’t the only way to deliver insurance marketing materials. Inserts, e-mails, Web site downloads, and hand delivery are some of the other options that are available. The first three methods are...
Eleven AIG Companies Fined by Okla. Insurance Department
Mar 22 2007 // Oklahoma Insurance Commissioner Kim Holland announced the largest fine of an insurance company in state history – $400,000 – against eleven AIG insurance companies doing business in the state. The companies...
Four Indicted in Texas on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Mar 22 2007 // Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that four people were indicted, in separate cases, in Travis County, Texas, on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. The company’s...
Two Arrested in Calif. for Staging Auto Accidents
Mar 7 2007 // Two suspects in California have been arrested in connection with staging automobile accidents and filing insurance claims for medical treatment they falsely claimed to have received in other countries, according to the...
Two Giant Glass Repair Firms Become One as Belron Acquires Safelite
Mar 5 2007 // Belron S.A., a large vehicle glass repair and replacement company, has completed its acquisition of another, Safelite Group Inc. According to Dan Wilson, president and chief executive officer.f the new joint organization...
