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.

While the insurance industry grapples with the coming influx of Covid-19 litigation, transportation insurers would be wise to use their 2008 playbook for insight into how claims trends will unfold.

Four alleged organized criminal organizations that operated as rival tow truck companies involved in a violent battle for territory in the Toronto area have been dismantled, police said Tuesday.

A well-organized Nigerian crime ring is exploiting the COVID-19 crisis by committing large-scale fraud against multiple state unemployment insurance programs, with potential losses in the hundreds of millions of dollars, according to a new alert issued by the U.S. Secret Service.

The inclusion of pain-management specialists in multi-disciplinary clinics over the last several years in the no-fault claims industry has grown rapidly. Unfortunately, it has also opened the door to fraud.

The COVID-19 outbreak has had a tremendous impact on every aspect of life in the United States. Like most companies, the insurance industry has had to drastically alter the way it does business.

Internet search queries for "how to set fire" are spiking amid the downturn from the coronavirus pandemic, which experts say is a sign that some people may be planning to commit insurance fraud.

As the world continues to deal with the fallout from the coronavirus, it occurred to me there may be some analogies that fraud-fighters may draw from this worldwide pandemic to help us better understand our own battle against insurance fraud.

A B.C. broker has been banned from holding a licence for five years and fined $5,000 for committing insurance fraud.

The coronavirus has upended markets, disrupted supply chains and forced quarantines. It's all fertile ground for lawsuits.

An Antioch woman has been charged in Contra Costa County with workers’ compensation insurance fraud after authorities said she showed a pattern of slipping and falling while working for different employers.