Sedgwick County officials have filed a property insurance claim a week after it discovered it had been scammed. The county had fallen victim to a scam and, as a result, had lost over half a million dollars to the scammers.

The man accused of setting a fire that killed a Hamilton firefighter tried to collect on an insurance policy that was set to expire just days after the fire started.

A former St. Augusta man was sentenced Thursday to more than four years in prison after previously pleading guilty to arson and illegally possessing a firearm. Travis Lee Cox, 35, was accused of setting fire to his home at 1680 Forest Glen Circle in January 2014.

The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a jury verdict that found State Farm defrauded the U.S. government when the insurance company assessed damage caused by Hurricane Katrina along the Gulf of Mexico coast in 2005.

A South Ogden woman has been charged with felony insurance fraud after she reported her Jeep Cherokee stolen and it was found at the bottom of a national forest ravine in Box Elder County.

A Waushara County farmer was convicted of crop insurance fraud. Jeffrey Lewke misrepresented how many times he irrigated a corn field in 2011 while making an insurance claim for an underperforming yield, according to federal court documents.

A Redlands woman was convicted in federal court Tuesday of bilking $4 million from her employer, AFLAC. Following a two-week trial, Patricia Diane Smith Sledge, 60, was found guilty on six counts of mail fraud. She sold disability insurance policies to sham companies and people who supposedly worked for those companies, according to a U.S. Attorney’s office statement.

Anthony Silveira has admitted to telling three of his four adopted children to act like they were injured, in order for them to get prescription medication from a doctor.

Beyond the structure loss, it’s the employees of businesses seriously damaged last week in a fire that are most impacted by the blaze that fire officials called "suspicious."

A father and son have been sentenced to jail after pleading no contest to auto insurance fraud. Harpreet Singh and his father, Satnam Singh, pleaded no contest to felony auto insurance fraud and to a misdemeanor offense of making a false report to police.

A Little Rock husband and wife said more than $100,000 in jewelry was taken while they were out of town, according to a police report.

The amount of court-ordered restitution payments for insurance fraud in Kentucky has increased by 800% this year, the Fraud Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) has said.

A Dauphin County jury convicted a man of arson after he set a fire in April 2014. Jamat Manzoor is facing endangering persons, arson of an inhabited building and insurance fraud.

The determined daughter of an 88-year-old Wildwood man who was the victim of a hit-and-run accident helped hunt down the man believed to be responsible for her father’s injuries.

An Adamsville couple has been arrested on felony charges after authorities say they set their house on fire and then tried to claim insurance for all of their belongings, which already had been stashed elsewhere prior to the blaze.