Latest Fraud Headlines
All the headlines from our Fraud Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Their Deep Pockets Had Holes
Aug 7 2000 // Following a nine-month investigation, Mostafa Behesti, 43, and Rahimi Morteza, 59, owners of Castello Inc., along with bookkeeper Emma Luz Guerzon, 46, and Margaro Haro, 37, owner of Haro’s Landscaping, were all...
Framing a Case of Possible Fraud
Aug 7 2000 // The owners of a building framing company in Riverside pleaded innocent to charges of defrauding the state and three insurance companies out of $3.5 million. Thomas Parsons and his wife Michelle, both residents of Colton,...
Long Beach Insurance Agent’s License Revoked for Grand Theft
Aug 3 2000 // Former Interim Insurance Commissioner Clark Kelso, before leaving office, ordered the revocation of the license and licensing rights of a Long Beach insurance broker found guilty of six counts of grand theft of insurance...
Brooklyn Underwriter Arrested for Submitting Fraudulent Claims
Jul 27 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin said that Camille Sautner, 26, was arrested on various charges for defrauding Chubb Insurance Company out of $45,000. The arrest is the result of a joint investigation...
Lying, Cheating and Stealing
Jul 24 2000 // There are a number of sins to which those providing services for money are susceptible: product ignorance, market ignorance, administrative incompetence, disloyalty and betrayal, slothfulness, untruthfulness, and stealing....
ISO HELPS FIGHT FRAUD
Jul 24 2000 // The ability of insurance companies to detect fraudulent claims by cross-checking them in “all-claims” databases will become keener as insurers adopt new methods of reporting and coding claims, according to the...
New Format Increases Fraud Detection Abilities
Jul 12 2000 // The ability of insurance companies to detect fraudulent claims by cross-checking them in “all-claims” databases will become keener as insurers adopt new methods of reporting and coding claims, according to the...
Four Southern Californians Arrested for Employer Premium Fraud Scheme
Jul 12 2000 // Following a nine-month investigation, Mostafa Behesti, 43, and Rahimi Morteza, 59, owners of Castello Inc., along with bookkeeper Emma Luz Guerzon, 46, and Margaro Haro, 37, owner of Haro’s Landscaping, were all...
Life in the Fast Lane
Jul 10 2000 // Three Southern California residents— Raul Eduardo Pero, 58; Monique Liza Pero, 24, Raul’s daughter; and Emma Gloria Alcaraz (a.k.a. Gloria Emma Barrett), 65, of Los Angeles—have been charged with insurance fraud...
Ex-aide to Quackenbush target of criminal probe
Jun 30 2000 // One day after the resignation of Insurance Commissioner Chuck Quackenbush, a former aide has been targeted in a criminal probe alleging he accepted kickbacks while on the job. Attorney General Bill Lockyer opened the...
U.S. Attorney Cracks $1.3 Million Auto Body Repair Scam
Jun 22 2000 // A Worcester, Mass. man was charged Wednesday with operating an auto body shop that routinely inflicted damage on cars brought in for repair and defrauded insurance companies by submitting false claims for the extra...
Insurance Companies Sue Denver Chiropractic Clinics
Jun 21 2000 // June 21, 2000 9:35 a.m. CDT Allstate Insurance Company, Liberty Mutual Insurance Company, and Progressive Casualty Company and three of its affiliates, served summons and complaints throughout the Denver area last Thursday...
New York DOI Arrests 18 for Insurance Fraud
Jun 16 2000 // New York Superintendent of Insurance Neil D. Levin announced yesterday that 18 individuals were arrested following an undercover sting investigation involving a garage that functioned as a “chop shop”. The...
Operation Cleansheet is Soiled
Jun 12 2000 // Nine suspects were arrested on May 18 following a 15-month joint investigation code-named “Operation Cleansheet,” conducted by the CDI Bureau of Investigations and Fraud Division, the FBI, the U.S....
Honeymoon’s Over
Jun 12 2000 // In conclusion to one of the largest workers’ comp fraud cases in San Diego county history, Doug and Ricki Stricker of Escondido, Calif., and owners of the Stricker Organization, a well-known roofing company, have...
Working for a Living
Jun 12 2000 // Steven Alan Ford of Norco, Calif., was recently arrested on workers’ compensation fraud. According to CDI fraud investigators, the 47-year-old man filed a w/c claim in 1995 for an injury sustained to his back. He...
N.Y. Insurance Fraud Conviction
Jun 7 2000 // Anthony Callicchio, owner of General Auto Glass Repair in New York, was sentenced to three years probation and ordered to make full restitution after pleading guilty for defrauding Cerebral Palsy Transport’s...
NICB Report Shows Higher Risk for Vehicle Theft in Port and Border Communities
Jun 7 2000 // The NICB analysis reported that close to 450,000 cars and trucks were stolen countrywide in 1998 in metropolitan areas with ports or close to international borders. Each year more than 200,000 vehicles are exported...
NetDetect Weighs Risk of Fraud at All Stages of Claims Lifecycle
Jun 5 2000 // Scheduled for release later this year, NetDetect scores claims for potential fraud — not just at first notice of loss — but throughout the claims lifecycle. The announcement was made at IASA 2000, the Insurance...
Mother/Son Clinic Operators Guilty of Insurance Fraud in Massachusetts
May 31 2000 // The operators of a Lowell, Mass. medical clinic catering to patients claiming injuries from automobile accidents have pled guilty to charges of operating a scheme to defraud automobile insurance providers between 1993 and...
