Latest Fraud Headlines
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Southern California Couple Who Charged Police with Racism Nabbed for Fraud
May 1 2017 // A Southern California couple who had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report. Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31, were...
7 Texas Auto Dealer Employees Charged with Insurance Scams, Theft
Apr 27 2017 // Police in El Paso, Texas, say seven current and former employees of an auto dealership have been arrested for running a series of illegal schemes that included taking vehicles from the lot and stealing tires. Authorities...
French Prosecutors Probe Peugeot Parent over Alleged Emissions Fraud
Apr 25 2017 // French prosecutors started a preliminary investigation of alleged fraud at PSA Group, the latest car manufacturer to be targeted over potential violations of emissions rules in the aftermath of Volkswagen AG’s...
Pennsylvania Says It Busted Up Fraudulent License Plate Ring
Apr 21 2017 // Pennsylvania’s attorney general’s office on Wednesday charged a dozen people as part of an organized crime ring that it said had made millions of dollars renting out fraudulently obtained license plates,...
Appeals Court Affirms Texas Physician’s Workers’ Comp Fraud Conviction
Apr 20 2017 // The Third Court of Appeals in Austin, Texas, has affirmed a trial court’s 2014 conviction of Howard Douglas, III, M.D., of Frisco on felony fraud charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Co. Douglas was convicted...
Police, Advocates Clash Over New Hampshire Pot Decriminalization Bill
Apr 18 2017 // With Republican Gov. Chris Sununu on board, advocates for marijuana decriminalization hope this is the year New Hampshire joins its New England neighbors in removing criminal penalties for possessing pot. But the measure...
Southern California Couple that Charged Police with Racism Arrested For Fraud
Apr 17 2017 // A Southern California couple that had filed an official complaint accusing police officers of racism, has been arrested for insurance fraud and filing a false police report. Lamont Goodwin, 33, and Sylvia Camarillo, 31,...
Grand Theft Auto Video Game Teaches Autonomous Cars How to Drive
Apr 17 2017 // In the race to the autonomous revolution, developers have realized there aren’t enough hours in a day to clock the real-world miles needed to teach cars how to drive themselves. Which is why Grand Theft Auto V is in...
Golden Bear Claims Manager Addresses Agency Fraud
Apr 17 2017 // Beth Ossino, claims manager at Golden Bear Insurance Co. in Stockton, Calif., puts dealing with agency fraud high on her radar. She talked with Insurance Journal about agency fraud, and how agency owners should go about...
Owners of California Hotel Cleaning Firm Plead Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 17 2017 // The owners of a cleaning company serving luxury hotels in Southern California and Nevada have pleaded guilty in connection with a nearly $7 million insurance and tax scam. Hyok “Steven” Kwon and his wife, Woo...
Owners of California Hotel Cleaning Firm Plead Guilty to Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 11 2017 // The owners of a cleaning company serving luxury hotels in Southern California and Nevada have pleaded guilty in connection with a nearly $7 million insurance and tax scam. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported Hyok...
Q&A: Art Theft and Its Impact on the Insurance Industry
Apr 11 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Bill Anderson, a managing partner of Brooklyn, New York-based Art Guard, recently spoke with Insurance Journal about issues related to insurance and artwork. Anderson has observed that...
Ohio Coal Miner Creates Fake Employment Records in Workers’ Comp Fraud
Apr 10 2017 // A former coal miner from northeast Ohio owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $40,000 after BWC investigators found him creating phony employment records to secure BWC cash benefits, the...
Claims Manager at Golden Bear in California Addresses Agency Fraud
Apr 6 2017 // Powered by InsuranceJournal.tv Beth Ossino, claims manager at Golden Bear Insurance Co. in Stockton, Calif., puts dealing with agency fraud high on her radar. She talked with Insurance Journal about agency fraud, and how...
Minnesota Insurance Fraud Probe Expands with Chiropractor Indictment
Apr 5 2017 // Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced that an additional Twin Cities area chiropractor has been indicted on federal criminal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation of large-scale health care...
Winterthur Exhibit in Delaware Offers Insight into Detecting Art Fraud
Apr 5 2017 // A painting with problematic pigment. A Chanel suit dressed up with acetate trim instead of silk. A Stradivarius violin that, well, just doesn’t sound right. They’re all part of a new exhibit at Delaware’s...
Tennessee Revokes Licenses of 4 Insurance Producers Over Violations
Apr 5 2017 // The Tennessee Department of Commerce and Insurance (TDCI) announced disciplinary actions including fines against four former Tennessee insurance producers who violated various provisions of Tennessee law, according to a...
South Carolina Real Estate Broker Accused of Stealing $3M From Firm
Apr 5 2017 // Authorities say a woman stole more than $3 million from the South Carolina real estate company she worked for more than a decade. A police report obtained by WMBF-TV said an audit at Hoffman Corporation determined...
Chubb Returns Stolen Norman Rockwell Painting 40 Years After Theft
Apr 4 2017 // More than 40 years after the theft of Norman Rockwell’s Boy Asleep with Hoe – also known as Lazy Bones or Taking a Break – the painting has been returned to the family of its original owners following a ceremony...
Florida Insurance Agent Gets 4 Years for $100K Premium Theft
Apr 2 2017 // A former Florida insurance agent has been convicted and sentenced to four years in prison for stealing more than $100,000 from two elderly clients, according to a statement from the state’s Chief Financial Officer...
