An Illinois pharmacist has been sentenced to seven years in federal prison for stealing customers’ identities to make fake prescriptions and collect money from insurance companies. Federal prosecutors say 76-year-old Ronald Kielar of Mundelein collected more than $1.7 million by …
An Ohio man has been ordered to repay nearly $60,000 in workers’ compensation death benefits, the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation reported. Adam Osterman pleaded guilty Feb. 13 in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of …
An Ohio chiropractor was sentenced to pay nearly $70,000 in restitution and investigation costs to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC). Tariq Arif pleaded guilty Jan. 13 in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to one count of …
Missouri insurance regulators announced a settlement agreement with Nationwide Agribusiness Insurance Co. and Farmland Mutual Insurance Co. following a market conduct examination into the companies’ handling of workers’ compensation insurance. Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff reported that as …
An Ohio man owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $40,000 after he was discovered working while receiving workers’ comp benefits. Dominic Musarra, who was working as a satellite cable installer in Point Pleasant, W.Va., was charged …
A Sharon Springs, Kan., attorney and former insurance agent has been ordered to repay $47,685 and will serve 18 months’ probation after pleading guilty to forgery, failing to forward an insurance premium, theft by deception and false impersonation, Kansas Attorney …
The wife of a man convicted of bilking millions of dollars out of people in North Dakota, South Dakota, Minnesota and elsewhere in an investment fraud scheme cannot collect proceeds from his insurance policy, a federal judge ruled. Verlin Swartzendruber, …
A former Texas insurance agent has been convicted of a first-degree felony for diverting more than $150,000 in premium payments for personal use, the Texas Department of Insurance reported. The DOI said Leslie Ray Collins of Sugar Land was convicted …
A resentencing proceeding for a former doctor convicted in the bombing of the leader of the Arkansas Medical Board left him with his original life sentence but afforded his lawyer a chance to again claim his client is innocent. Randeep …
A St. Paul, Minn., man has been sentenced for filing a false insurance claim for artwork he had reported as stolen. Thirty-nine-year-old Jason Sheedy was sentenced in federal court to three years’ probation on one count of wire fraud. Sheedy …
