A man who faked his own death to cheat on his insurance turned himself in when he discovered his wife had killed herself and their two young children because of his disappearance.

A bumbling Manhattan jeweler claims he lost two diamond rings worth a total of $1 million that he was supposed to re-size for a wealthy client — but prosecutors say he actually stole them.

There’s plenty of attention paid when a company like Target or Home Depot gets hacked. These major cyber breaches attract extensive media coverage, often creating the illusion that it’s only big businesses that are at risk of an attack. But that’s far from the case.

The Information is reporting today on Apple’s five-year struggle to tackle iPhone repair fraud. The scheme centres around crime gangs who were buying or stealing iPhones, removing valuable parts like CPUs and screens, and then claiming their devices were broken at Apple Stores and getting the Genius to replace them under warranty. The parts were then sold on.

In the exact spot where Hurricane Katrina demolished the Plaquemines Parish Detention Center, a new $105 million jail now hovers 19 feet above the marsh, perched atop towering concrete pillars. Described by a state official as the "Taj Mahal" of Louisiana corrections, it has so much space that one of every 27 parish residents could bunk there.

Two Twin Cities chiropractors have been sentenced for participating in separate multi-million dollar insurance fraud conspiracies.

For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group.

The owner and an employee of a Fountain Valley-based treatment facility, along with five doctors and four so-called body brokers, have been arrested and charged in what authorities say was a scheme to fraudulently bill insurance companies millions of dollars for experimental, unnecessary and potentially harmful surgeries on recovering addicts, the Orange County district attorney’s office announced Wednesday.

A group of insurance companies are reportedly on the hook for the sum of $9.7 million relating to an accident that occurred two years ago.

Insurance companies with legacy systems can find it extremely challenging to bring their data together because of different data formats and system access methods.

The Miami-Dade Police Department announced Tuesday one of their own has betrayed the badge. The department said a Miami-Dade police lieutenant has been arrested and charged with scheme to defraud, insurance fraud and grand theft.

Eleven people from the Sicilian capital Palermo have been arrested, police said. They include a hospital nurse who would procure painkillers for the victims in order to lessen their screams as their bones were broken.

A Renton Woman pleaded not guilty to one charge of first-degree theft and two counts of filing a fraudulent insurance claim in King County Superior Court on Monday.

A botched arson-for-hire plot left a Scranton man dead and his father and a homeowner charged with murder. It was a simple plan, police said. Brett Sweeting Jr., 26, would set fire to Chad Kenowski’s home at 52 Roosevelt St. in Scranton, then flee the blaze with his father and getaway driver, Brett Sweeting Sr.

A Loudoun County, Virginia, woman who ran a sleep study clinic has been convicted on charges of running a health care fraud that siphoned $83 million from Medicare and private insurers.