May 2, 2022
Via: Insurance JournalA South Florida man has been charged in connection with what appears to be a new twist on auto insurance fraud. State and local authorities said that Victor Van Vickery, 33, of Delray Beach, claimed to be in a Uber […]
March 31, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessA Connecticut woman has been sentenced to 66 months in prison for her role in an insurance and loan fraud scheme worth $33 million. Erin Verespy, 50, was accused of misappropriating client healthcare funds and defrauding multiple lenders. The chief […]
February 22, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessA Rhode Island woman is headed to federal prison for stealing insurance payments meant for the customers of the auto repair shop where she worked as an office secretary, according to the Department of Justice. Idalee Johnston, 48, devised a […]
February 16, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessA California man is headed to prison after admitting to unemployment insurance fraud to the tune of more than $170,000. Kier Jordan Parker, 25, fraudulently obtained unemployment benefits by submitting multiple unemployment claims in other people’s names and using benefits […]
February 11, 2022
Via: Insurance JournalThe former owner of a group of health spas and clinics in Los Angeles has admitted to participating in a $20 million insurance fraud scheme involving Botox injections, laser hair removal and other procedures, federal prosecutors said. Roshanak Khadem, 54, […]
February 4, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessNew York City Mayor Eric Adams’s chief of staff has been issued a subpoena for documents related to a $4.5 million insurance fraud lawsuit filed by GEICO. In a complaint filed in federal court in Brooklyn, GEICO alleged that a […]
January 31, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessA Michigan insurance agent is headed to jail for a year for scamming her clients out of hundreds of thousands of dollars, according to the state’s attorney general. Alicia Holbrook-Bloink and her insurance firm, Holbrook Insurance Agency, pleaded guilty to […]
January 18, 2022
Via: Insurance BusinessAn insurance agent from West Valley City, UT has been served a five-year prison sentence for conspiracy to commit wire fraud, after he was found guilty of orchestrating an investment fraud scheme that targeted elderly clients. Tony Scott Sellers, 62, […]
January 5, 2022
Via: Insurance JournalA Jonesboro, Louisiana fire chief and a Jackson Parish sheriff’s deputy have been arrested for insurance fraud over an alleged fraudulent vehicle crash that involved two Jonesboro Fire Department vehicles. In August 2021, Louisiana State Police Insurance Fraud/Auto Theft Unit-Monroe […]
December 27, 2021
Via: Insurance JournalThe New York State Police in Brunswick arrested 53-year-old Michael LePage of Glens Falls, New York, on December 17, 2021, for insurance fraud in the fourth degree, a class E felony, and making a false written statement, a class A […]
December 22, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessAn investigation into a Phillipsburg, NJ truck stop has uncovered a massive $20 million insurance fraud scheme, with 12 individuals charged in connection with the fraud ring. The charges cover about $2.7 million in underpaid insurance premiums for just the […]
October 19, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessTime may be gold, but a Washington man might be getting more than he bargained for after he was charged for filing a false insurance claim over a luxury Rolex timepiece he claimed was “lost”. Christopher Michalke of Seattle, WA […]
October 11, 2021
Via: Insurance JournalFormer Georgia Insurance Commissioner Jim Beck will have to wait a little longer to learn his fate, after his sentencing date was postponed until Tuesday. Federal prosecutors are now asking that he serve 10 years in prison and pay fines […]
October 8, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessIn what could arguably be called the greatest foul play in their professional careers, 18 former NBA players were charged in New York federal court for their alleged involvement in a massive health insurance fraud scheme. Prosecutors said that the […]
October 7, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessA former employee with Washington, D.C.’s Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) was sentenced to 78 days in jail for her involvement in an insurance fraud scheme, as well as in a separate $40,000 bribery scheme. Kendra Coles, 46, of Beltsville, MD, […]
September 30, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessA Houston businessman has been sentenced to two years in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.8 million in restitution – nearly five times the money he collected in an insurance fraud scheme. Robert Lance Kuperman, who pleaded […]
September 13, 2021
Via: Insurance JournalZachary Navo, 38, of Visalia, Calif., was arraigned yesterday on five felony counts of insurance fraud after a California Department of Insurance investigation revealed he allegedly underreported wages by over $2.5 million in an attempt to fraudulently reduce workers’ compensation […]
August 26, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessThe US Justice Department has announced that two lawyers and two surgeons in New York have been indicted on mail- and wire-fraud charges, for their alleged role in a complex $31 million insurance fraud scheme involving staged accidents that spanned […]
June 25, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessMichigan Attorney General Dana Nessel and the state Department of Insurance and Financial Services (DIFS) have announced that a local insurance agent charged with fraud and stealing from his clients has pleaded guilty. Sixty-three-year-old Charles Booker, Jr. of Muskegon, MI […]
April 28, 2021
Via: Insurance BusinessAn ex-insurance broker from Lake Forest, California has been charged with 90 counts – which include grand theft, theft from an elder, fraudulent insurance benefit claims, assisting in a false claim, making false entries in records or returns, and forgery […]