Allen E. Weintraub of Miami, Fla., collected more than $100,000 in worthless Global hurricane insurance premiums he sold to at least 45 consumers. Weintraub was booked into the Miami-Dade County Jail on 45 counts of grand theft and 45 counts …
Five Tampa-area clinic owners have been arrested and a warrant issued for the arrest of a sixth owner for “selling” patients, most of whom were accident victims, to diagnostic facilities that billed auto insurers thousands of dollars in claims. In …
To combat fraud and protect workers from serious injury and death, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries has cited a Tacoma roofing contractor for workers’ compensation fraud and multiple safety violations. An industrial insurance audit showed that Tacoma-based Armstrong …
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 …
Three Marines based in Twentynine Palms, Calif., have pleaded not guilty to felony insurance fraud charges for allegedly filing a false claim that a vehicle was stolen and vandalized. The trio also pleaded not guilty to a misdemeanor count of …
To combat fraud and protect workers from serious injury and death, the Washington Department of Labor and Industries has cited a Tacoma roofing contractor for workers’ compensation fraud and multiple safety violations. An industrial insurance audit showed that Tacoma-based Armstrong …
California Superior Court Judge Christopher G. Wilson has ordered the owner of three Humboldt County bars to pay State Compensation Insurance Fund $66,355. Salvatore Constanzo of Eureka, Calif., was ordered to pay State Fund in restitution after his conviction for …
San Bernardino, Calif., District Attorney Investigators, working with the Newport Beach Police Department, recently arrested Michael David Hebert, 38, of Newport Beach, Calif., on suspicion of committing automobile insurance fraud. On April 17, 2004, Hebert’s 2004 Mitsubishi Galant was involved …
A former insurance agent has been sentenced after pleading guilty to one misdemeanor count of unlawful concealment of insurance payments. The California Department of Insurance Investigation Division determined that former insurance agent Yvette Roberta Lopez of Camarillo, Calif., and her …
Two attorneys pleaded guilty in connection with a Southern California insurance fraud ring that allegedly staged vehicle collisions and filed false insurance company claims, according to state officials. Curtis Mitchell Shaw, 61, of Beverly Hills, Calif., and Keith Darran Washington, …
