"In this case, I’m not sure that there ever was a crash," Ryan James, with the Arkansas Insurance Department, said. As U-Haul locations across Central Arkansas load up their trucks for law abiding customers, the Arkansas Insurance Department is unloading a conviction on a woman they say hitched onto a U-Haul for insurance fraud.

Jose Manuel Villa, 60, of San Clemente, a former licensed public adjuster, was arrested today at his home in San Clemente on multiple felony counts of embezzlement, grand theft, and forgery after allegedly cashing claim checks with counterfeit endorsement seals and stealing a total of $400,000 from fire victims in the Los Angeles area.

Julia Calipo has been found guilty on all eight charges for setting her east Erie home on fire in 2015 to collect insurance money. The judge also revoked Calipo’s bond and issued a warrant for her arrest.

A man who defrauded State Farm Insurance of $19,553 in a claim stemming from an alleged burglary pleaded guilty to a felony Monday in Niagara County Court.

Whenever Doris Maxey backs out of a parking spot, she honks her horn as a warning. “I am very cautious,” Maxey, 90, said. “I honk, and I look and look, because I don’t want to run over my postman.”

Steve Morang just couldn’t stand it. After reading my column about the deception committed by both Volkswagen and Wells Fargo WFC +1.56% against their customers, he simply had to reach out by email to register his outrage.

When fires devastated luxury homes in Fairfield and Westchester counties, a Chubb Corp. insurance adjuster was there to assess damages and start the restoration process. But Chubb did not know that its own adjuster was colluding with a contractor he hired to estimate repair costs.

Tina Diakos pleaded not guilty last week to an indictment charging her with the March fire that leveled Jerzeez the Diner in Vernon. Diakos’ boyfriend, and co-owner of the diner, also pleaded not guilty to the indictment charging him with conspiracy to to burn down the restaurant.

Michigan House members returned to work this week to decide whether they’ll give the state’s motorists a break on their highest-in-the-nation auto insurance premiums.

A Waterbury woman was arrested today and charged with illegally collecting $22,000 in Workers’ Compensation benefits.
ROSAURA RODRIGUEZ, age 51, of 161 Prospect Street, Waterbury, was arrested by Inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an arrest warrant charging her with one count of Fraudulent Claim or Receipt of Benefits.

The former owner of a Darby Borough auto body shop was sentenced to 23 months of intermediate punishment Thursday after pleading guilty to insurance fraud and receiving stolen property.

Two northern Maine men have been charged with burning a commercial tractor trailer truck. The State Fire Marshal’s Office have arrested the owner of the truck 47 year old John Craig, from Masardis, and his employee 23 year old Richard Gilman of Millinocket.

Federal agents have arrested two women and a man, after linking them to a ring that staged fake car crashes to defraud insurance companies through massage therapy and chiropractor services for “victims” who didn’t need medical treatment, according to federal court records.

A Tacoma-area man faces a felony theft charge after he was caught working while receiving more than $81,000 in workers’ compensation disability payments.

A man pleaded guilty Friday to torching a $139,000 Bentley he and his parents purchased at a Bergen County car dealership in a insurance scheme.