Woman In Arson, Firefighter Murder Case Has Filed 14 Insurance Claims

Thu Hong Nguyen has operated five nail salons dating back to 2006 and each one them had some kind of catastrophic event — usually a fire — that closed them down for good.
July 23, 2018 Auto Fraud Property Missouri Texas

Floridian Charged in Massive Health Insurance Fraud Worth $1M

A Florida man is now facing charges in a massive health insurance scam. To swindle his insurance company out of about a million dollars, he allegedly assumed the identity of a doctor in New Jersey.
July 18, 2018 Fraud Life & Health Florida

Dallas Woman With Extensive Claims History Sentenced For Arson

A Dallas woman with a history of filing 31 insurance claims against a dozen companies got burned when one turned out to be arson.
July 16, 2018 Fraud Property Texas

Pop-Up Hail Repair Company Accused Of Forgery, Insurance Fraud

Vernon Jones dropped his car off at a pop-up hail dent repair tent but says the company never finished the job and forged his signature to get more than $5,000 from his insurance company.
July 13, 2018 Auto Fraud Colorado

Rogue Geico Insurance Adjusters Part Of Bogus Claim Ring In Miami

The call that came into a GEICO auto insurance claims department seemed routine: A Lexus GS350 was involved in a fender bender with a Chrysler 320 in North Miami-Dade. Within days, adjusters from a team that covers the area reported inspecting the Lexus and authorizing a series of payments totaling over $16,000.
July 11, 2018 Auto Fraud Florida

Insurance Agencies Push Back On Rater’s Outlook After Hurricane Irma

Florida Property & Casualty Association, an association of Florida-based home insurers, is disputing claims made by Weiss Ratings, including that, "Many Florida homeowners are still waiting for their insurance claims to come through after a severe hurricane season last year."
July 3, 2018 Auto Catastrophe Fraud Property Florida

2 Addiction Treatment Center Owners Indicted After Reaping $50 Million From Insurers

Federal prosecutors unsealed indictments on Wednesday charging eight people — sober home and drug treatment owners, employees and a doctor — with health care fraud and money laundering in two of the highest profile investigations in the crackdown on corruption in South Florida’s drug treatment industry.
June 29, 2018 Fraud Florida

Insurers Turn To Artificial Intelligence In War On Fraud

From bogus claims to shady brokers, insurance fraud costs companies and their customers more than $40 billion a year, the FBI estimates. And that’s excluding medical insurance fraud, which is estimated by industry groups to cost tens of billions more.
June 27, 2018 Fraud Risk Management Technology

Attorney Who Filed Fraudulent Roof Hail Damage Claims Sentenced To Prison

A former attorney with offices in Arlington and McAllen, Texas was sentenced to five years in prison Friday after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and barratry, or litigation for profit, the Tarrant County district attorney’s office said.
June 25, 2018 Fraud Property Texas

Beverly Hills Doctor Sentenced To 10 Years For Massive Workers’ Comp Scheme

Beverly Hills Radiologist Ronald Grusd and two of his corporations, California Imaging Network Medical Group and Willows Consulting Company, were sentenced in federal court today after a jury trial in December resulted in convictions on 39 felony fraud counts.
June 19, 2018 Fraud Workers' Compensation California

Adjuster Sentenced To Ten Years For Participation In Staged Collision Ring

An insurance adjuster has been sentenced to 10 years in state prison and ordered to pay nearly $700,000 in restitution to a half-dozen insurance companies for his role in what prosecutors described Wednesday as a staged auto collision ring.
June 15, 2018 Auto Fraud

INFORM And NICB Partner To Deliver An Automated Search Solution For Fraud Detection

INFORM, a global provider of fraud management and claims process optimization technology and the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), the nation’s premier not-for-profit organization dedicated exclusively to fighting insurance fraud and crime, today announced a new technology partnership.
June 14, 2018 Fraud Technology

North Texas Arson Investigators Forecasting Increase In Car Fraud Fires

Severe storms and crowded freeways are just two of the reasons North Texans pay an average of nearly $1,900 a year in annual auto insurance premiums. That’s $400 more than the national average.
June 11, 2018 Auto Fraud Texas

Law Student Found Guilty Of Insurance Fraud

A South River, NJ, law student was found guilty of insurance fraud for making fraudulent claims with Liberty Mutual.
June 8, 2018 Fraud Property New Jersey

The Auto Insurance Triple Threat

Property and casualty claims involve a delicate balance between pace and precision. If you move too quickly, then you may miss critical information. If you dive too deep, then you may wind up compromising customer experience and personal productivity, with no real benefit to anyone.
June 7, 2018 Auto Fraud Risk Management Technology
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