April 20, 2023
An insurance company offering home warranties must refund Californians who were reportedly deceived by a misleading mailer sent to hundreds of thousands of consumers. According to an investigation by the California Department of Insurance, Response Indemnity Company of California worked …
April 12, 2023
A California Department of Insurance-led investigation with assistance from the California Department of Justice has resulted in the arraignment of 12 suspects on more than 110 felony counts including conspiracy, insurance fraud, and grand theft for their alleged involvement in …
March 29, 2023
Kemper Independence Insurance Co. has issued more than $1.5 million in refunds to thousands of California homeowners after the California Department of Insurance found the carrier overcharged policyholders for wildfire risk. Kemper and its affiliate insurance company, Unitrin Auto and …
March 27, 2023
A California couple was arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance fraud over allegedly staged collisions that were posted on YouTube. Christopher Phelps, 40, of Yucaipa, and his wife, Kimberly Phelps, 40, were arrested on multiple felony counts of insurance …
March 24, 2023
Eliu Canales, 43, was arraigned this week on 54 felony counts of insurance fraud, assault with a deadly weapon and reckless driving after a joint investigation by the California Department of Insurance and San Joaquin County District Attorney’s Office found …
March 13, 2023
Wesley Owens, 54, of Atlanta, Georgia, and Beau Wilson, 38, also of Atlanta, pleaded no contest to multiple felony counts of insurance fraud and conspiracy in Los Angeles Superior Court over charges filed after a California Department of Insurance investigation …
February 8, 2023
The Pill Club Holdings Inc. (dba The Pill Club) paid $3.2 million after the California Department of Insurance alleged it violated the California Insurance Frauds Prevention Act by submitting false claims to insurance companies for reimbursement for telehealth visits and …
January 24, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court will not take up a lawsuit from Applied Underwriters Inc. over a decision by the California Department of Insurance to put its affiliate into conservatorship. The court on Monday declined to hear the case. A CDI …
January 13, 2023
Sally Nava Kanarek, 76, of Huntington Beach, was arrested this week on multiple felony counts of financial elder abuse, grand theft of an elder, and forgery after a California Department of Insurance investigation found she allegedly defrauded an elderly client …
December 27, 2022
Anaiza Villarreal Lopez, 30, of McFarland, California was sentenced in Kern County Superior Court on one count of grand theft by embezzlement after pocketing clients’ premium payments and leaving several of them uninsured. After receiving a complaint, the California Department …