A Carbon County man lied to collect insurance in February when he reported his $42,000 construction vehicle stolen from an Upper Macungie Township work site, investigators said.
Drug users, desperate to break addictions to heroin or pain pills, are pawns in a sprawling national network of insurance fraud, an investigation by The Boston Globe and STAT has found.They are being sent to treatment centers hundreds of miles from home for expensive, but often shoddy, care that is paid for by premium health insurance benefits procured with fake addresses.
In what is believed to be the first case of its kind to use data from a beating heart as evidence, a Butler County judge ruled Tuesday that evidence from a pacemaker used to get a Middletown man indicted for arson can be presented at trial.
A Washington state insurance agent has been charged with felony theft for a workers’ compensation scam. James C. Kooy, 53, has been accused of claiming he was too disabled to work while running his own insurance agency. Authorities say he fraudulently received more than $233,000 in benefits.
Two men are behind bars accused of intentionally setting fire to their home near Magnolia earlier this month. One firefighter was injured battling the blaze when he fell through a hole in the second floor.
A DuBois man accused of torching his auto repair shop last year in hopes of cashing in on the insurance payment remains in jail, his charges bound to a higher court.
A former employee of Insys Therapeutics Inc pleaded guilty on Monday to having conspired to defraud insurers into paying for an expensive fentanyl-based drug that is at the heart of an investigation into the company.
A federal jury in New Haven has found two Norwich residents guilty of fraud and conspiracy offenses related to their staging of car accidents to defraud automobile insurance companies.
A Cecil Township man was arraigned Thursday on charges filed by a special agent with the state attorney general’s office for allegedly making a false insurance claim last August.
Julian Rigby, a Bacon County farmer, and Jasper Allen and Benjamin Swain, his sons-in-law, have agreed to pay the federal government $675,000 to settle a suit accusing them of creating false crop insurance claims.
Although a major hurricane hasn’t unleashed its full fury on Florida in more than a decade, property insurance rates are climbing statewide because of another kind of storm — claims abuse.
A suburban Chicago woman has been sentenced to four years in prison for defrauding Illinois out of nearly $7 million in unemployment benefits. The U.S. attorney’s office says 54-year-old Letitia Garcia of Round Lake Beach helped hundreds of people prepare and file unemployment insurance claims that contained false information.
A ringleader of a group that allegedly staged wrecks and accompanying injuries in Harrison, Marion and Taylor counties to get insurance payouts has pleaded guilty.
A Quincy man, convicted for his role in a fire that destroyed two pieces of farm equipment in 2014, has been sentenced to five months in federal prison.
Today, the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB) announced the addition of LexisNexis Risk Solutions to the NICB Strategic Partner network of companies that work together to combat fraud.
