Will Election Changes Boost Anti-Fraud Efforts?
The late David Bowie sang about “ch-ch-ch-ch-changes” in his memorable rock song. This theme could define anti-fraud legislation in 2017. A new year always brings aspirations for success.
January 5, 2017
Fraud
Legislation & Regulation
Workers Comp Investigation Catches Claimant Teaching Martial Arts
New York State Inspector General Catherine Leahy Scott and Richmond County District Attorney Michael E. McMahon today announced the arrest and guilty plea of a Staten Island phone company lineman who was caught teaching kickboxing, and performing all the requisite combat moves, while claiming work-related injuries kept him from performing his job.
December 23, 2016
Fraud
Workers' Compensation
New York
Woman With History Of Fraud Offenses Jailed For Fake Claim
A 43-year-old woman with a lengthy record of embezzlement and forgery crimes will serve three months in the Benton County jail for falsely claiming she was hurt after a garage door fell on her car.
December 22, 2016
Fraud
Washington
Former Adjuster, Cohorts Ordered To Repay Nearly $400K From Fraud Scheme
An investigation led by the Fraud Division of the Kentucky Department of Insurance (DOI) has resulted in $388,803.80 in court-ordered restitution for one business.
December 21, 2016
Fraud
Kentucky
Kansas County Files Property Claim Following Employee Fraud
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.
December 19, 2016
Fraud
Property
Kansas
Ohio Homeowner Charged With Arson, Murder Of Firefighter
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.
December 14, 2016
Fraud
Property
Ohio
Homeowners Financial Troubles Led To Arson
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.
December 12, 2016
Fraud
Property
Minnesota
U.S. Supreme Court Rules Against Insurer In Katrina Fraud Case
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.
December 6, 2016
Fraud
Litigation
Property
Risk Management
Illinois
Mississippi
GPS Devices In Leased Vehicles Aid In Loss Prevention, Fraud Investigation
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.
December 5, 2016
Auto
Excess & Surplus Lines
Fraud
Utah
Milwaukee Farmer Pleads Guilty To Crop Insurance Fraud
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.
November 23, 2016
Fraud
Wisconsin
Aflac Employee In California Charged In $4M Disability Scam
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. Attorneys office statement.
November 17, 2016
Fraud
Legislation & Regulation
California
Wyoming Man Pleads Guilty To Prescription Fraud And Child Endangering Charges
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.
November 14, 2016
Fraud
Legislation & Regulation
Wyoming
Employees Of Fire-Damaged Businesses Transferred While Officials, Adjusters Investigate
Beyond the structure loss, its the employees of businesses seriously damaged last week in a fire that are most impacted by the blaze that fire officials called "suspicious."
November 10, 2016
Fraud
Property
Ohio
Son Has Hit-And-Run In Dads Car; Father Claims He Is Childless
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.
November 9, 2016
Auto
Fraud
Liability
California
Little Rock Couple Says $100,000 In Jewelry Stolen From Home
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.
November 8, 2016
Fraud
Property
Arkansas



