Insurance fraud has been around since, well, the beginning of insurance. The ancient Greeks created a form of maritime insurance to indemnify against potential losses incurred with the sinking of a commercial ship in transit. It became a common scheme for the boat owner to hide the boat in a foreign port and collect the insurance money.
Two former officials of a Florida city are charged with conspiring with two businesses to bilk the federal government out of $5 million in Hurricane Michael cleanup money, the U.S. attorney’s office announced Tuesday.
PG&E Corp. says it has found suspicious monetary claims by victims of California’s wildfires, including one from a man who says a 500-pound (227-kilogram) emerald worth $280 million was destroyed at his home a year ago in the most destructive and deadliest wildfire in state history.
An effort to crack down on alleged fraud in the auto-glass repair industry, particularly along the Interstate 4 corridor, is spurring an insurance battle in the state Legislature.
A 48-year-old San Jose man pleaded guilty this week to orchestrating a series of fires as part of a scheme to collect millions of dollars in damages, authorities said.
A federal judge has ruled against Nathan Carman regarding an insurance policy for his sunken boat. Carman was rescued off the coast of Massachusetts in September 2016. His mother Linda was also on the boat but hasn’t been seen since.
A Lutherville-Timonium resident was convicted by a federal jury Monday for conspiring to defraud insurers of more than $15 million by setting fire to his Baltimore-based business in 2015, the Maryland U.S. Attorney’s Office announced.
A local man is in jail for allegedly filing a false insurance claim after losing his truck while intoxicated. Joseph Michael Harrington, 41, of Washington City, faces one second-degree felony count of filing a false or fraudulent insurance claim, along with two misdemeanor charges for providing a written false statement and for reporting a fraudulent emergency to police, fire or medical, according to the probable cause statement filed in support of the arrest.
Investigating and litigating singular fraud cases for first- and third-party claims used to be the mainstay of special investigation units. While these tactics can be relatively successful, there is still a whole world of abuse and misrepresentation stemming from medical providers, durable medical equipment suppliers, diagnostics entities, premium fraudsters, auto body shops, copy service providers, and more.
Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced this week a Three Forks man charged with fraudulently collecting workers’ compensation benefits from the Montana State Fund has pled guilty.
“The improbable can happen. But when a number of improbabilities occur consecutively within a short period of time it is very difficult to accept that they are coincidences.”
A Zanesville man and former county deputy sheriff must reimburse the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation nearly $235,000 in restitution following his felony conviction for workers’ compensation fraud Monday in a Franklin County courtroom.
