A Buckhannon, West Virginia man who admitted to defrauding insurance companies by staging vehicle accidents and filing fake claims will spend 18 months in prison. U.S. District Judge John Preston Bailey sentenced 42-year-old Christopher John Thrain earlier this week on …
Teddy Marks, 41, of Morgan Hill, Calif., who the California Department of Insurance is calling a “key figure” in an organized auto insurance fraud ring, has been arrested on two felony counts of insurance fraud and one felony count of …
Authorities are describing the takedown of a massive auto insurance fraud ring in New York the largest of its kind involving New York’s no-fault law. The fraud scheme involved 10 licensed medical doctors, three personal injury lawyers, thousands of patients, …
Louisiana State Police have arrested four people for allegedly staging traffic accidents in Ouachita Parish. Detectives tell The News-Star they looked into six of 20 crashes where individuals filed false bodily injury claims. Trooper says the insurance companies in two …
A western Pennsylvania woman will stand trial on charges she fraudulently applied online to insure her daughter’s car less than an hour after an accident, and then had her daughter to lie about the time of the crash. Forty-two-year-old Heidi …
Maria Ramirez’ job heading the battle against automobile fraud in the state’s most populous county is tough enough. But her division is “operating on fumes” amid a rise in that type of crime and scaled-back local government budgets, so the …
Florida insurers, government agencies and consumer advocate groups have established a statewide alliance to push for legislative reforms aimed at cracking-down on staged-accidents that the industry says are costing Florida drivers nearly $100 higher in annual premiums. The Sunshine Alliance …
A Middletown man who thought he was doing favors for unlicensed family members and friends by registering and insuring their cars was arrested for falsifying business records, the New York State Insurance Department reported. Ruben Godinez has been accused of …
Eight Floridians who provided information that led to arrests and convictions in five major insurance fraud cases have been given rewards totaling $50,500. These citizens helped uncover more than $2 million in fraudulent insurance billings leading to 26 arrests to …
