January 2, 2006
Eight members of an alleged staged-crash-ring, accused of filing more than $100,000 in fraudulent insurance claims in a staged accident have been arrested in Miami. Brothers and suspected ringleaders Jimmy Desir, 27, and Nildo Desir, 29, planned and recruited the …
January 2, 2006
A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain last summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a second-degree felony. …
January 2, 2006
A Southern California man was found guilty of federal fraud charges for bilking the customers of Employers Mutual LLC, which purported to provide healthcare coverage to more than 20,000 people nationwide, but left more than $20 million in unpaid claims …
January 1, 2006
Todd Graves, U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri, reported that a former Kansas City, Mo., police officer pleaded guilty in federal court recently to a scheme to collect insurance on a fraudulent stolen car claim. Michael J. Galley, …
January 1, 2006
The Florida Division of Insurance Fraud has released a list of arrests, convictions and ongoing investigations showing that 32 people have been arrested, eight convicted and 84 are being actively investigated. According to Nina Bannister, DOI spokeswoman, the department received …
January 1, 2006
A St. George, Utah, man who faked his death on Pine Valley Mountain last summer and then fled to Australia pleaded guilty to one count of conducting a false or fraudulent scheme to obtain fees or services, a second-degree felony. …
December 19, 2005
An insurance broker-agent has been arraigned in Los Angeles County Superior Court on two felony counts of financial elder abuse and four felony counts of grand theft following a two-year investigation by the California Department of Insurance (CDI) Investigation Division. …
December 19, 2005
Florida Attorney General Charlie Crist and U.S. Attorney Alexander Acosta announced four individuals, including two Miami physicians, have been arrested for allegedly participating in an organization that illegally diverted millions of dollars worth of highly valued AIDS drugs from Medicaid …
December 19, 2005
Five individuals who reported fraud perpetrators have received $16,000 in cash rewards from the Florida Financial Services Department after the recipients, including a child, provided information that led fraud detectives to thwart more than $1 million in fraudulent insurance claims. …
December 19, 2005
A trash bin in Longwood, Fla. near Orlando has revealed boxes of medical records with photographs, names, Social Security numbers and personal information about chiropractic patients in Lawrence, Mass. treated by Prestige Pain Management and Physical Therapy. The discarded records …