A North Carolina man has been accused of stealing more than $5 million in federal crop insurance funds.

The owners of a Bird Island home destroyed by fire in January have now been charged in connection with that fire.

Consider what happened over the weekend inside the downtown Denver jail equal parts unusual and awkward. With a warrant in hand, Denver police officers walked into the jail looking for a suspect in an insurance fraud case on Saturday.

A 55-year-old Florida man has been sentenced to nine years in state prison for filing more than $1.2 million in false insurance claims related to refrigerated cargo allegedly spoiling while being transported cross country by his long-haul trucking companies based in Middlesex County.

A Wheatfield hit-and-run fatality in 2014 continues to reverberate through local courtrooms. The driver who killed Ryan Fischer, 16, of North Tonawanda, faces charges of illegally padding an insurance claim he filed after the teenager’s mother, who was drunk at the time, rammed his garage door and damaged his vehicle.

A man who damaged a Tuckerton marina and other boats has entered a guilty plea. The Ocean County Prosecutor’s Office announced that Bruce Roslin entered a guilty plea April 12 for the charge of second-degree conspiracy to commit theft by deception.

A Winnetka man who owned a dental office building in Corona that was ravaged by a 2014 fire has pleaded not guilty to several insurance fraud charges plus grand theft, after an investigation outlined a series of suspicious claims for the building.

A New Jersey woman has been accused of stealing more than $46,000 by collecting her dead mother’s worker’s compensation dependency benefits for nearly three years.

Hundreds of health-care providers in Ontario are billing insurance companies for an improbable number of daily hours spent treating car crash victims, recent insider data suggest.

Eric Garcia-Cebollero worked as a high-ranking claims adjuster for Citizens Property Insurance, the state-run company that insures hundreds of thousands of Florida homeowners. He boasted over two decades of experience in the field, and had wide authority to approve large claims for homes and businesses damaged by floods and fires.

A new fleet of satellites could become the ultimate foil for fraudsters looking to make a quick buck in the wake of a natural disaster. That’s the intention of Planet, a San Francisco company that has sent around 380 satellites into space since 2013.

A federal lawsuit filed Friday by a Pennsylvania insurance company claims that a fire that extensively damaged the Springfield Shooting Center last year was intentionally set by owners John and Kathryn Jackson, or their representatives.

Like or loathe, the term “fake news” is now part of our national culture. Even the venerable Webster’s Merriam Dictionary now includes “fake news."

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission is having trouble serving a court summons to a binary options trader charged in January with stealing more than $1 million in bitcoin.

Fire safety product maker Kidde is recalling nearly 500,000 smoke alarms that could be faulty.