Gemstar-TV Guide International Inc. has sued an insurer, seeking to recover $50 million in liability coverage the media and technology company claims it is due to help cover judgments stemming from lawsuits about inflated revenues. In its complaint, filed in …
Does the world seem to be careening from one crisis to another, or is it all hype by news outlets? Unfortunately, it’s not hype; it’s reality. Not a day goes by without reports of terrorist threats and attacks somewhere around …
Terry Lee Villers of Wirt County, W.Va. has been sentenced to two felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud according to Insurance Commissioner Jane L. Cline. Villers was sentenced Dec. 16 in the Circuit Court of Kanawha County to two terms …
Thirty-eight reports have been filed with Memphis, Tenn. authorities by the Mid-South Red Cross after an internal audit revealed $75,000 in thefts involving scams in which people attempted to claim money meant for Hurricane Katrina victims. Memphis police are investigating …
Kentucky Attorney General Greg Stumbo announced that oral surgeon Robert Michael Clear was sentenced to three years in prison on felony Medicaid fraud charges. The Jefferson Circuit Court sentence was probated for five years on the condition that Clear pay …
An agreement has been reached between Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and Quality Plus Restoration, a Houston, Texas-based water extraction company, settles allegations of fraudulent business practices, including price gouging, following Hurricane Ivan in 2004. The settlement will remove liens …
A Miami man is facing more than 48 felony charges after surrendering to insurance fraud detectives with the Department of Financial Services investigating the theft of nearly $1 million in a 2002 mortgage transaction. The diversion led to foreclosure of …
A Florida corporation and its owner selling fraudulent contracts for home health care services to senior Floridians has been sued by Attorney General Charlie Crist. Clearwater-based Intrust Home Care and its president, Roy F. Fitzgerald, are accused of taking more …
A lawsuit asking a Miami-Dade Circuit Court to make sure victims of a Chalk’s Ocean Airways crash receive their share of the company’s insurance money, was filed on by relatives of a woman and her infant daughter who were killed …
Comprehensive reform of South Carolina’s workers’ compensation system, including repeal of the Second Injury Fund are top legislative priorities of the Property Casualty Insurers Association of America during the state’s 2006 legislative session in Columbia, S.C. “Workers’ compensation costs are …
