A Brevard County firefighter was arrested after investigators said he lit his home on fire in an attempt to defraud his insurance company, according to an affidavit from the Florida Bureau of Fire, Arson and Explosives Investigations.
A man in the United States illegally has been sentenced to five years in federal prison for involvement in an elaborate insurance fraud scam with ties to Las Vegas.
A hardened fraudster ran a massive $18 million insurance fraud scam that involved an NYPD cop and five crooked 911 operators, prosecutors charged Thursday.
“Much the same, yet completely new.” This was the subtitle of BAE System’s report into Insurance fraud trends in 2020’ and an effective summary of how the fraud landscape has changed.
A Jay man charged with arson and insurance fraud is accused of drastically increasing the coverage of his homes insurance policy not long before dousing the house in gasoline and setting it on fire.
In a major expansion of an already sprawling FBI investigation, a federal grand jury Friday indicted 11 more people on a variety of fraud and conspiracy charges, accusing them of participating in staged accidents with 18-wheelers then filing bogus lawsuits to defraud trucking and insurance companies.
New York state filed civil charges on Tuesday accusing Teva Pharmaceutical Industries Ltd and Allergan Plc with insurance fraud for downplaying the risks of their opioid painkillers to patients and doctors.
The insurance market was set to hit new highs in 2020. Then COVID-19 happened. That forecast – and the global economic outlook – is now far less certain.
Some consumers who owe money on vehicle loans during the COVID-19 pandemic may be tempted to make false auto theft claims, an independent adjuster warns.
On the day before the July 4 holiday weekend, Mount Auburn Hospital’s information technology team identified some unusual activity. Alarmed, they quickly took steps to disconnect the Cambridge hospital’s computer system from the internet.
A statewide grand jury has indicted a Holbrook man after prosecutors said he was involved in a scheme of buying luxury cars with fraudulent financing in order to purposely damage them, collecting more than $200,000 of insurance proceeds in the process.
A delivery driver who used his wife’s name to try to pull off one of the state’s largest workers’ compensation fraud cases has been ordered to pay back nearly $340,000.
Ever wonder what makes a person willing to commit insurance fraud? A new Insurance Speak podcast featuring Michael Skiba, an international expert on economic crime and also known to much of the world as Dr. Fraud, takes us into the mind of a fraudster.