Archive for the ‘Insurance Fraud’ Category

Allstate Suing for $3.8M in New York

Allstate Suing for $3.8M in New York
Since 2003, Allstate Insurance Company has filed 47 fraud lawsuits in New York State, attempting to recover over $235 million in damages. They are now on their third insurance fraud lawsuit of 2013, and are trying to collect $3.8 million against six physicians and five medical professional corporations. Allstate...
May 22nd, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

South FL Chiropractor Arrested for Fraud

South FL Chiropractor Arrested for Fraud
It sounds like a story we normally write, but this time it’s much closer to home. Taking place in our own backyard, a Fort Myers chiropractor was arrested last week for paying patients to fake injuries after car crashes; all so he could rip off insurance companies. According to investigators and NBC...
May 20th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

PA Woman, Co-Conspirator Sentenced for “Stolen” Lexus

PA Woman, Co-Conspirator Sentenced for “Stolen” Lexus
Back in March we brought you the story of Kathleen B. Chung, the 69-year-old Philadelphia woman who took part in a car insurance scam with Kyung Soon Kim. Both participants were recently sentenced. Chung was sentenced last week to seven years of probation for her two felony insurance fraud charges and...
May 16th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

PA Man Claims Fake Burglary, gets Charged with Insurance Fraud

PA Man Claims Fake Burglary, gets Charged with Insurance Fraud
A Pennsylvania man was arrested on May 9th for allegedly filing a false insurance claim from a phony burglary. Dunmore police said he came into the Police Headquarters on March 14th to report the “burglary” that happened on March 6th and ended up costing him almost $4,300 in electronics and accessories...
May 14th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Father Charged with Murdering Son for Insurance Money

Father Charged with Murdering Son for Insurance Money
Joaquin S. Rams, 40, has been indicted on a murder charge after he was accused of drowning his 15-month-old son for the life insurance money. His trial will begin on August 5th. According to court documents, Rams took out over $500,000 in life insurance on his son, Prince McLeod Rams, who was the cause...
May 14th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Armin Wand receives 3 Consecutive Life Sentences for Arson, Murder

Armin Wand receives 3 Consecutive Life Sentences for Arson, Murder
Back in September we brought you the gruesome story of Armin Wand, the man who tried to obtain insurance money by burning down his house and brutally murdering his three sons and attempting to murder his pregnant wife and their 2-year-old daughter in the process. Sharon Wand, the badly burned young mother...
May 14th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Indiana Woman Accused of Setting Fires, Claiming “Destroyed” Items

Indiana Woman Accused of Setting Fires, Claiming “Destroyed” Items
An Indianapolis Department of Public Works employee, Donna Fitzgerald, 48, was arrested on May 2nd on two charges each of arson and insurance fraud, both felonies. She is accused of setting a string of fires and then fraudulently collecting thousands of dollars from the insurance company. Investigators...
May 10th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

NC Man Convicted for role in $5.3M Embezzlement Scheme

NC Man Convicted for role in $5.3M Embezzlement Scheme
Back in September we brought you the story of an insurance embezzlement scheme that investigators say cost a North Carolina company over $5 million. The second of four men indicted for that scam has now been convicted. Court clerks in LenoirCounty said Marvin Quinn, 56, was convicted on two counts each...
May 8th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Survey Shows Public Less Tolerant of Insurance Fraud

Survey Shows Public Less Tolerant of Insurance Fraud
New findings from an Insurance Research Council (IRC) public opinion survey showed that the number of Americans who believe it is acceptable to pad an insurance claim is declining. According to the survey, only 24% of respondents believe it is okay to increase an insurance claim by a small amount to...
May 3rd, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Another TX Chiro Pleads Guilty for $3M Scam

Another TX Chiro Pleads Guilty for $3M Scam
Back in January we told you about the unraveling of Lindsey Chiropractic Care, along with its co-owner, due to involvement in a conspiracy to defraud several automobile insurance companies of more than $3 million. Now, another person, 42 year-old Marion Young, who co-owned Private Chiropractic Care,...
May 2nd, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More
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