Technology is a tool, like fire or gin. It can be used for good or for ill. Most workers on a construction site or in a warehouse are willing to wear a sensor if it will keep them from getting run over by a forklift or knocked off a ledge by a crane.
In this current litigious environment, insurers and individual claims professionals face many risks while handling fraud investigations, whether the investigation focuses on an insured, an outside contractor, or a medical provider.
Cassandra Brooks is being charged with insurance fraud after incidents with Sonic. According to court documents, Brooks says she was sold a raw hamburger at a Sonic in Lake Charles.
Agents in the Fraud Investigations Division of the Georgia Insurance Commissioners Office have made 49 arrests in the first half of 2019 and are set to pass the total number of arrests from last year (60) in just the third calendar quarter.
The Wake County District Attorneys Office has called her a "hazard on the road" and now theres an investigation into whether Diana Mems is a drain on the system. The North Carolina Department of Insurance is looking into whether the Stayumbl driver has committed insurance fraud.
Three people have been charged with stealing more than $300,000 from homeowners in an alleged insurance scam. The owner of Ace Public Adjusters in Philadelphia, 56-year-old Anthony J. Hoffman, and his two employees, 35-year-old Deborah L. Felix and 35-year-old Hartman J. Wismer, are accused of defrauding more than 30 people, many of which were elderly.
A man has been charged with arson after fire officials say he set his car on fire back in April. Emmanuel Gonnell, 42, was charged with arson, a second-degree felony, July 3 after Austin Fire Department investigators say he intentionally started a fire in his 2018 BMW M3 in a possible insurance fraud scheme, according to an arrest affidavit.
A judge has ordered a fraudulent insurance adjuster and her husband to pay back the $150,000 they stole from a Henry County woman who lost her home in a fire.
Youve just wrecked your car and a Mobile police officer arranges for your vehicle to be towed, picking a towing company off a list kept by the department.
A teacher who claimed he was hit by a car at an Osceola County grocery store in 2016 was arrested last month, accused of faking the crash to defraud an insurance company, according to state investigators.
First American Financial Corp., one of the largest U.S. title insurers, may have allowed unauthorized access to more than 885 million records related to mortgage deals going back to 2003, according to a security researcher.
Federal investigators believe a quality assurance engineer responsible for inspecting parts for SpaceX had been falsifying reports. The engineer works for New York-based PMI Industries and is accused of forging signatures on at least 38 inspection reports for parts intended for use in SpaceX’s Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
Atlanta, GA – Georgia’s governor is seeking an interim insurance commissioner while the current job holder battles allegations of wire fraud, mail fraud and money laundering.
A Port Arthur, TX man has pleaded guilty to charges related to an elaborate insurance fraud scheme, which involved purchasing properties to purposefully damage for claims.