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Five Arrested in Fla. Scheme to Defraud Seniors
May 3 2004 // Southeast News • March 23 “These people should not have been given probation. They should have been sent to prison, their assets frozen and distributed back to the elderly people that were fraudulently used in...
Five Arrested in Fla. Scheme to Defraud Seniors
May 3 2004 // Southeast News • March 23 “These people should not have been given probation. They should have been sent to prison, their assets frozen and distributed back to the elderly people that were fraudulently used in...
Five Arrested in Fla. Scheme to Defraud Seniors
May 3 2004 // Southeast News • March 23 “These people should not have been given probation. They should have been sent to prison, their assets frozen and distributed back to the elderly people that were fraudulently used in...
Two Fla. Residents Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Apr 19 2004 // Two Florida men are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges after insurance fraud investigators with the Department of Financial Services conducted investigations of numerous construction sites in and around...
Three New Wholesale Brokerages Join IMK Environmental Insurance Network
Apr 8 2004 // IMK Services announced that three new wholesale brokerages have joined the IMK Environmental Insurance Network The new members of the include: · Agency Intermediaries Inc. · Jimcor Agencies Inc. · Travis-Pedersen and...
Eleven Good Reasons to Reassign a Commercial Lines Account
Apr 5 2004 // In most offices, it’s easier to get a bone from a starving dog than it is to take a commercial account from an agency producer. That’s because the current producer is always the executive on a business account...
Ten Tips to Improve a Contractor’s Surety Program
Apr 5 2004 // In today’s tight market, it’s becoming harder and harder for contractors to secure the bonds they need. Whether they are a small operation starting out, or an established leader—chances are they have found it...
One TPA Says it Has the Secret to Reining in Comp’s Transition Costs
Apr 5 2004 // At first glance, Jeffrey McDaniel does not seem disabled. He is built like a football player, and in his mesh green and gold jersey he looks like one too. A pat on the back reveals his muscled frame, the one that helped...
Nine “Insider Insurance” Conspirators Arrested in California
Mar 30 2004 // State Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced the arrests of nine suspects today by the California Urban Auto Fraud Task Force for embezzlement, conspiracy and tax evasion in connection with an...
One TPA Says it Has the Secret to Reining in Comp’s Transition Costs
Mar 22 2004 // At first glance, Jeffrey McDaniel does not seem disabled. He is built like a football player, and in his mesh green and gold jersey he looks like one too. A pat on the back reveals his muscled frame, the one that helped...
Five Arrested in Fla. Scheme to Defraud Seniors
Mar 22 2004 // Florida Chief Financial Officer Tom Gallagher and Attorney General Charlie Crist announced the arrests of five south Florida residents on charges that they systematically defrauded hundreds of senior citizens in an...
One Step Closer to Reform’
Mar 22 2004 // Ironically, there was no shortage of things to write about when it came to filling the pages of our Workers’ Compensation issue. All over the West, workers’ comp has been the hot topic in many states—not just...
Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Feb 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five businesses in one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operations in the history of Monterey County. Arrested were: 40-year-old David Alan Long, owner of...
Two Fla. Residents Face Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges
Feb 13 2004 // Two Florida men are facing workers’ compensation fraud charges after insurance fraud investigators with the Department of Financial Services conducted investigations of numerous construction sites in and around...
Eleven Untapped Sources of New Business Leads
Feb 9 2004 // An east coast agent surprised me, in the recent past, by revealing that he had run out of insurance leads. This amazing declaration came from someone living and doing business near the largest U.S. city of all, New York....
Three Years Later, Industry Puts Toxic Mold into Perspective
Feb 9 2004 // Whatever became of mold? Only three years ago, newspaper headlines, fueled by overzealous trial attorneys and misguided scientific information, trumpeted mold as “the next asbestos.” Since then, however, mold...
One-on-One with Arizona State Fund President Don Smith
Jan 26 2004 // In recent months, we’ve heard nothing but praise for Arizona’s workers’ compensation system, especially when compared to the trouble California system. Wondering what all the hoopla was all about, I...
Five Monterey County Shop Owners Arrested in Auto Fraud Ring
Jan 23 2004 // Monterey County Sheriff’s Department arrested five business in sting concluding what has turned out to be one of the largest undercover insurance fraud sting operation in the history of Monterey County. Arrested...
Six More Lawsuits to be filed tomorrow by Holocaust Survivors
Jan 16 2004 // Six Holocaust survivor families, have filed lawsuits to recover life insurance benefits due to them arising out of the death of their heirs during the Holocaust. The lawsuits claim that Generali, a large Italian insurer,...
NINE NEW FRAUDSTERS JOIN “HALL OF SHAME”:
Jan 12 2004 // Nine of the nation’s top convicted insurance swindlers of 2003 have been elected to the Insurance Fraud Hall of Fame by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud (www.InsuranceFraud.org). The East Coast scored well with...
