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.
An automobile insurance fraud sting operation led to the arrest of four people, including three from Contra Costa County, officials said Friday. The undercover sting was conducted by the California Department of Insurance, Contra Costa County District Attorney’s Office and the National Insurance Crime Bureau.
More than 50 people were involved in a series of hit-and-run accidents with Uber rideshare vehicles in the Columbia area that an insurance company claims either never happened or were deliberately caused as part of an insurance scam.
Would-be fraudsters in Georgia are increasingly turning to U-Haul trucks with hopes of making a quick buck by staging crashes, insurance regulators say.
The government wants to take up to 1,300 acres of land and $575,000 from a Central Kentucky farmer if he is convicted in an alleged conspiracy to file false crop insurance claims. The request is included in an indictment against Earl Lee Planck Jr., of Nicholas County, handed down as part of an investigation of widespread crop insurance fraud in Central Kentucky.
New York’s financial regulator on Wednesday filed civil charges accusing the National Rifle Association of offering insurance to its members without a license and concealing how it routinely kept some of their premiums for itself.
A public adjuster in Delaware County has been charged with insurance fraud and related offenses for allegedly stealing $722,000 from a manufacturer in the Bridesburg section of Philadelphia.
The ongoing legal battle between Government Employees Insurance Co., Geico Indemnity Co., Geico General Insurance Company and Geico Casualty Co. (collectively Geico), and six parties has come to a close in an Arizona courtroom.
Investigators in California have arrested four suspects for their alleged involvement in a car insurance fraud ring. Their alleged activities cost scammed insurers $500,000 until they were found out by the California Department of Insurance, San Diego County District Attorney’s Office, and the California Highway Patrol.
Insys Therapeutics Inc. founder John Kapoor and other former executives convicted of bribing doctors and lying to insurance companies to boost sales of an opioid painkiller should pay $306 million in restitution to insurers, federal prosecutors said in a court filing.
A U.S. government watchdog is raising fresh concerns that health insurers are exaggerating how sick Medicare patients are, receiving billions of dollars in improper payments as a result.
