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.
A Columbus roofing contractor has been charged with intentionally vandalizing the roofs of two homes in Muscogee County, Insurance Commissioner Ralph Hudgens said in a release Friday.
A Grand Junction man accused of filing two insurance claims for the theft of the same road bicycle, and another for a home burglary that his girlfriend at the time said never occurred is facing fraud charges.
According to the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud, billions in fraudulent claims are made every year in the U.S. This includes all types of insurance, from personal auto to workers compensation to homeowners to health care.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
