Fraud Roundup

Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud

A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation insurance fraud and payroll tax evasion. Vint was ordered to pay restitution of …

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

The managing co-owner in The Leavitt Group’s Albuquerque office has been dismissed for reported misrepresentations made in proposals to 20 current or former clients over a six-year period. The misrepresentations were made in annual insurance renewal proposals, in which a …

CDI Arrests Three

The California Department of Insur-ance (CDI) has arrested three suspects–Richard Contreras, 41, his wife Jun Nigh Contreras Carrasco, 42, of Fontana, Calif., and Robert Bird, 65, of La Quinta, Calif.–for insurance fraud, grand theft, conspiracy and labor code violations for …

South Dakota

S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme: A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits. Connie S. Finneman, …

FLORIDA

Former Agent Accused of Taking $92,000 Joel Berg, the former owner of J.B. Williams & Co. in Weston, Fla., and Seacoast Marine Insurance Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, was arrested for allegedly misappropriating more than $92,000 in insurance premiums from more …

Managing Co-Owner Dismissed

Man Fined For Workers’ Comp Fraud A San Diego County Superior Court judge has sentenced Kevin Vint, 50, of Del Mar, Calif., to three years formal probation for conspiracy to commit workers’ compensation insurance fraud and payroll tax evasion. Vint …

S.D. Farm Couple Pleads Guilty to $1.3 Million Scheme:

A Rapid City, S.D. couple has pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court to conspiring to defraud the U.S. government out of more than $1.3 million in farm benefits. Connie S. Finneman, 46, and David M. Finneman, 50, were both indicted …

Ohio Clinic Owners Plead Guilty in Fraud Case:

The owners of the former MedBack chiropractic clinics in Toledo and Northwest Ohio have entered into plea agreements in federal court for a conspiracy and money-laundering scheme to defraud $4.8 million from federal and private insurers. Chiropractor Paul M. Neumann, …

U.S. Attorney Joints Ill. Lawsuit Against AmeriGroup:

U.S. Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald has filed a request to join a whistleblower lawsuit against AmeriGroup Illinois that accuses the insurer of defrauding Medicaid, the government health plan for the poor, as means of boosting profit. The case centers on former …

$20,000 False Claims in St. Petersburg

The Prosecutor’s Office has charged five St. Petersburg residents with filing false claims and defrauding two car insurance companies after a May 2004 two-car wreck in Pinellas Park, Fla. Zlatan Ramic, Alija Boskovic, Safet Beganovic, Ferida Beganovic and Izet Beganovic …

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