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#1 15 Californians Charged in Complex Auto Insurance Fraud Ring
May 14 2024 // More than a dozen Southern California residents are reported to have conspired to create fraudulent insurance claims to illegally collect more than $350,000. They were arrested last week after an investigation reportedly...
#2 Two Montgomery Workers Charged with Insurance Fraud in Alabama
Apr 30 2024 // Montgomery, Alabama, authorities have charged two workers – a contract employee and a firefighter – with insurance fraud in unrelated alleged scams. Local news outlet reported that Michael Granger Hicks, who worked for...
#3 Everton FC Buyer Accused of Fraud, Double-Pledging Assets in Lawsuit
May 7 2024 // Lenders to 777 Partners have accused it of fraud, claiming that the Miami-based investment firm borrowed against $350 million of assets that it didn’t own, didn’t exist or were already promised to someone...
#4 Miami Retirement Fund Class Action Alleges Globe Life Officers Concealed Fraud
May 3 2024 // After an investment research firm dropped a bombshell last month and sent shares of Globe Life Inc. plunging by 53%, the insurance company denied the allegations that officers had concealed fraud and sexual harassment...
#5 California Contractor Pleads Guilty to Insurance Fraud After Underreporting Nearly $1M in Payroll
May 2 2024 // Kent Bo Fridolfsson, 67, of Benicia, California, pleaded guilty to six charges of insurance fraud and grand theft after a joint investigation with the California Department of Insurance, Solano County District...
#6 Property Owner Sued for Negligence in Hiring of Worker With Criminal Record
Apr 24 2024 // April Hurley’s attacker entered her apartment after identifying himself as the building maintenance man — a job he should never have obtained, according to a lawsuit filed Monday that accuses the property owner and...
#7 New York AG, Trump Attorneys Agree to Changes in $175M Bond in Civil Fraud Case
Apr 23 2024 // Lawyers for former President Donald Trump and the New York attorney general on Monday agreed to changes in the terms of the $175 million surety bond Trump secured with Knight Specialty Insurance Co. (KSIC). Attorney...
#8 China Construction Bank Sued in US Over Reinsurance Fraud Losses
May 10 2024 // China Construction Bank Corp., the nation’s third-largest commercial lender, was accused in a US lawsuit of enabling a massive fraud in the reinsurance industry that left companies with “monumental...
#9 Class Action Settlements Flooded With Fraudulent Claims by Scammers
May 3 2024 // Artsana, a maker of child car booster seats, last year agreed to settle claims that it had misled customers about how to use its products, offering $50 to people who had bought Chicco-brand seats. The company, which did...
#10 New Mexico Restaurant Settles Wage-Theft Complaint After Prolonged Legal Battle
May 2 2024 // New Mexico labor announced a legal settlement that resolves longstanding accusations of unpaid wages against a restaurant business in northwestern New Mexico. The Workforce Solutions Department said in a news release that...
#11 Iowa Woman Charged With Insurance Fraud
May 13 2024 // Sarah Rahm, age 39, of Bondurant, Iowa was charged with one count of Insurance Fraud – Presenting False Information (Class D Felony), following an investigation by the Iowa Insurance Division’s Fraud...
#12 Michigan Police Arrest 6 Men for Stealing $8M Worth of Vehicles
May 20 2024 // LANSING, Mich. (AP) — Six men working as part of a criminal organization in Michigan have been arrested in connection with the theft of more than 400 vehicles worth about $8 million, authorities said last week. The men,...
#13 Alabama City Councilman Hit With New Auto Insurance Fraud Indictment
Apr 22 2024 // Authorities have added four more insurance fraud charges to those already lodged against an city official in coastal Alabama. Prichard City Councilman Derrick Griffin last week was indicted by a grand jury for the second...
#14 McKinsey Faces US Criminal Probe Over Opioids Work, Sources Say
Apr 25 2024 // McKinsey & Co is under criminal investigation in the United States over allegations that the consulting firm played a key role in fueling the opioid epidemic, with federal prosecutors homing in on its work advising...
#15 California Insurance Broker Sentenced for Identity Theft
May 8 2024 // Robert Kirby Wells, 64, of Woodland, California, was sentenced this week to two years in prison for aggravated identity theft. Court documents show Wells was an insurance broker for a company in Denver, Colorado, that...
#16 Michigan Doctor Faces Trial for Alleged $400K Disability Insurance Fraud
Apr 23 2024 // A Michigan doctor was bound over last week in the 48th District Court in Bloomfield Hills on charges stemming from an allegedly fraudulent disability insurance claim and subsequent years of receiving fraudulent payments,...
#17 California Business Owner Ordered to Pay $687K in Restitution for Workers’ Comp Fraud
May 3 2024 // A California business owner convicted of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud was ordered to pay $687,560 in restitution to the victims. An investigation by the California Department of Insurance determined...
#18 Range Rover Buyers Offered Insurance Cash After String of Thefts
May 9 2024 // Jaguar Land Rover Automotive Plc is offering to pay part of customers’ insurance costs for new Range Rovers after a string of thefts caused premiums to soar and left some unable to get cover. The British carmaker...
#19 Indigenous Consultant Accuses Chicago Blackhawks of Fraud, Sexual Harassment
May 17 2024 // A consultant the Chicago Blackhawks hired to improve relationships with American Indian tribes has filed a lawsuit accusing the team, its charity foundation and its CEO of fraud, breach of contract and sexual...
#20 Report: Cybercrime ‘A Thriving Business’ as US Claims Frequency Rises
Apr 26 2024 // Cyber claims frequency in the U.S. rose 13% last year, a new report shows. According to Coalition’s 2024 Cyber Claims Report, released this week, cybercrime is “a thriving business that adversely impacts”...
