A Miami clinic owner and four others are in jail on charges of reportedly staging an accident after the clinic owner crashed his Humvee into two other cars in a scheme to collect insurance payments, according to investigators with the …
Criminal charges of insurance fraud have been filed against Cory and Tiffany Thurlow of Modesto, Calif., by the District Attorney’s Office of Stanislaus County. They are charged with two felony counts and a misdemeanor. These charges arise from an insurance …
John Vernon Liller, 53, of Carson City, Nev., was sentenced after pleading guilty to felony fraud charges. Liller was the owner and agent at a Farmers Insurance office for more than 22 years. Between March 2000 and March 2001, Liller …
Ohio Insurance Director Ann Womer Benjamin announced that insurance agent Steven Goodyear agreed to the revocation of his insurance license, effective immediately. Goodyear signed a department consent order in which he reportedly admitted that he misappropriated $200,279.43 that was intended …
A Marion, Iowa, insurance agent was sentenced to four years in prison for selling fraudulent securities, according to The Marion Star. Paul L. Edwards, 68, received three years for reportedly engaging in a pattern of corrupt activity and one year …
A Berthold, N.D., man was sentenced to serve a year in the Ward County Jail and ordered to pay $5,618 in fines and restitution after pleading guilty to charges of filing false workers’ compensation claims, according to the North Dakota …
The Kansas Department of Insurance’s new fraud unit announced its first prosecution. Acting in concert with the attorney general and Douglas County District Attorney Christine Kenney, the Unit has filed a 14-count criminal complaint against Rhonda Wilder. The complaint charges …
North Dakota Insurance Commissioner Jim Poolman issued a cease and desist order against My Smart Benefits Inc., an Indiana company that administers self-funded employee benefit plans for several employers in the state. The commissioner has ordered My Smart Benefits Inc. …
The Allstate Insurance Company, Encompass Insurance and Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company have filed a RICO (Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act) action in the Supreme Court of New York against 74 defendants, seeking to recover more than $100 million from …
A former insurance broker has been arrested on nine felony counts of grand theft and one felony count of forgery totaling $73,990, according to CDI investigators. Ronald Nhi Bang, 34, allegedly collected premiums from at least nine business owners and …
