May 11, 2021
Former insurance agent Wendy Judd, 47, of Madera, Calif., pleaded guilty this week to felony grand theft after embezzling over $20,000 of insurance premium payments from consumers. The California Department of Insurance launched an investigation after receiving a referral from …
May 10, 2021
Formerly licensed insurance agent Danny Raymond Armenta, 48, of Clovis, Calif. was arraigned on Monday in Fresno Superior Court on multiple felony counts of embezzlement, grand theft and diversion of fiduciary funds after allegedly using his position as an insurance …
April 28, 2021
Former insurance broker Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Mission Viejo, Calif., was arrested on 90 felony counts including grand theft, insurance fraud, financial elder abuse, and forgery for allegedly collecting premiums and failing to place insurance coverage for her customers …
April 12, 2021
Ai Ling Lee, 61, an unlicensed insurance agent living Hacienda Heights, was convicted of nine felony counts of grand theft after reportedly stealing nearly half-a-million dollars of her small business clients’ insurance premium payments. An investigation by the California Department …
February 11, 2021
Additional charges of felony grand theft were filed this week against licensed California insurance agents Robert Farmer, 66, of Camarillo, and Marion Urcan, 68, of Agoura Hills. The additional charges were filed after Farmer and Urcan allegedly accepted more than …
February 4, 2021
Former licensed insurance agent Laura Lopez, 37, of Long Beach, Calif., was arraigned on one felony count of grand theft after allegedly collecting over $97,000 in insurance premiums from clients and pocketing the premiums. After receiving a complaint in February …
January 28, 2021
Former insurance agent, Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Lake Forest, Calif., this week was ordered to pay the California Department of Insurance $20,000 in penalties after a judge’s decision that affirms the cease and desist order issued against Dondanville for …
January 12, 2021
Licensed insurance agents Robert Farmer, 65, of Camarillo, Calif., and Marion Urcan, 67, of Agoura Hills, Calif., were arraigned this week in Los Angeles County Superior Court on multiple counts of grand theft after allegedly accepting over $687,000 in insurance …
December 7, 2020
A Buckeye, Ariz., woman who ran an insurance brokerage firm but kept premiums her clients intended to pay for their policies has been sentenced to 2 1/2 years in state prison. The Arizona Department of Insurance announced the sentence for …
November 17, 2020
A 57-year-old Snohomish, Wash., insurance agent was charged this week in U.S. District Court in Seattle with five counts of wire fraud for her theft of approximately $750,000 in premium payments from various insurance clients. Vicki Boser, who owned and …