Two Kern County farm labor contractors surrendered to authorities July 12 after a two-year investigation found that they had allegedly under-reported their business’ payroll by $1 million. The investigation began after a routine audit by State Compensation Insurance Fund that …
Cordell Bunton, of Stockton, California, has been sentenced to six months in the San Joaquin County jail after pleading guilty to 10 felony and two misdemeanor counts that included grand theft, insurance fraud, forgery, and transacting insurance without a license. …
Fraud costs the insurance industry between $85 billion and $120 billion a year, according to the Insurance Information Institute. Independent agents, claims adjusters, and most importantly consumers, are impacted by this problem. Insurance Journal magazine, which produces www.insurancejournal.com and www.claimsguides.com, …
A San Jose, California husband and wife pled guilty to charges of workers’ compensation premium fraud and will serve 14-month jail sentences and pay $2 million in restitution following a multi agency investigation into the crimes. The owners of San-Jose …
A Modesto insurance agent/broker has been arrested and charged with 36 felony counts of insurance fraud stemming from a five-month joint criminal investigation conducted by the CDI and the Stanislaus County District Attorney’s Office. The investigation focused on alleged fraudulent …
Carmelo Sanfei and William Paul Crouse, accused by Florida’s Department of Financial Services of bilking more than 7,000 Floridians of more than $2.5 million in unpaid insurance bills, have pleaded guilty to charges of racketeering and unlawful transaction of insurance. …
An Encino chiropractor and her legal assistant have been arrested and charged with two counts each of insurance fraud following an investigation by the California Department of Insurance Fraud Division. Chiropractor Nasrin “Nancy” Hadizadeh Fathi, and legal assistant Behrouz Beck …
California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi announced that a Landers roofing contractor has pled guilty to workers’ comp premium fraud and other charges. Michael Louis Curran pled guilty on June 8 to one felony count of making material misrepresentations to the …
Sandra Canas, a resident of Daly City, California, pleaded guilty on May 11 to a felony charge of workers’ compensation insurance fraud. Canas was arrested on Nov. 10, 2004 by investigators from the California Department of Insurance Fraud Department for …
Investigators announced that Jay Neal Wright, a former Bay Area businessman and owner of Highland Framers of Northern California Inc., was formally sentenced in Alameda County Superior Court to three years in state prison and ordered to pay $3.1 million …
