The Urban Automobile Insurance Fraud Task Force successfully dismantled an alleged auto insurance fraud ring that had been operating for years, resulting in the arrest of seven individuals yesterday. A total of 23 individuals are facing felony counts of insurance fraud and conspiracy in connection to the case.
Federal prosecutors have secured charges against five more people in an alleged years-long scheme to crash cars into big rigs and buses on New Orleans freeways for millions in insurance money.
Danny Williams, the proprietor of Southport Towing located in Mobile, is set to face trial next April following a decision by a Mobile County District Court Judge on Tuesday. The trial will revolve around charges of insurance fraud, which were brought against Williams in 2020.
When Hurricane Laura hit Lake Charles in August 2020, Aaron Sonnier’s roof was badly damaged. He was lucky: his insurance company quickly paid for repairs. But when he started noticing more damage to the house in the following months, things got messy.
Terrence Williams, a former member of the Sacramento Kings, has been handed a 10-year prison sentence by a federal judge in Manhattan for orchestrating an elaborate plot to embezzle over $5 million from the NBA’s health care program.
Technology is accelerating faster than it ever has before, giving IT and security teams more tools to fend off cybersecurity attacks from an increasingly diverse slate of bad actors, according to Comcast Business.
The threats that are posed by new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI), which had consistently reduced since 2021, is now predicted to be a growing threat for the next 12 months ahead, according to Beazley’s latest Risk & Resilience report: Spotlight on: Cyber & Technology Risks 2023.
Most property insurance policies contain ‘Concealment or Fraud’ provisions. As the name suggests, these provisions penalize claimants for material misrepresentations or concealment by releasing insurers from payment obligations, regardless of whether relevant claims would otherwise be covered.
After an extensive four-year investigation, the owner of a Pennsylvania auto body repair business has been sentenced for filing nearly 300 false insurance claims which resulted in over $400,000 in fraudulent payouts.
Verisk and the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud have recently published a study shedding light on the demographics and psychology of insurance fraud in the United States.
With the insurance industry so focused on improving the customer experience, many have turned to behavioral economists for insights into how customers actually think, as opposed to how we think they think or how we want them to think. But... wow... behavioral economists sure aren’t doing much for their credibility.
A Kansas City, MO, man who formerly lived in Columbia, MO, pleaded guilty in federal court to his role in a $1.1 million insurance fraud conspiracy that involved false claims of injuries suffered in car accidents, as well as to his role in a conspiracy to fraudulently obtain COVID-19 relief benefits.
The U.S. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) has warned the OKCoin exchange over fake insurance claims on its advertising materials and social media.
Cybersecurity Ventures estimates cybercrime will take a $10.5 trillion toll on the global economy by 2025. If it were measured as a country, the underground cybercriminal economy would be the third largest in the world after the U.S. and China.
The courtroom was impassioned, to say the least, and downright angry at what they were hearing. In our post-COVID-19 reality, the claimant in a workers’ compensation case was presenting lengthy testimony by video. The judge sat calmly as the claimant spoke about a seemingly horrific injury.
