SC Store Owner gets Trial Date for Fraud, Arson

Back in September of 2011, we brought you the case of Claudette Hulsey, who was the owner of Jack Be Nimble Children’s Clothing Store in South Carolina, which burned down on January 26, 2011, during what was reported as a robbery. The event, in which Hulsey was allegedly assaulted, caused a lot of...

April 23rd, 2013 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

“The Noodle” Sentenced for Fake Comp Claims

Eating ramen, cooking spaghetti and saying the phrase “using your noodle” are a few examples of the good things you can do with noodles. Using “The Noodle” as your stage name for MMA fighting while you are out on worker’s compensation is not a good thing however. Back in April we...

March 7th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Money Train Derailed for LIRR Doctor

Choo choo: The free-ride for retirement train is leaving the station; and it’s leaving behind numerous guilty pleas. We first brought you the story of the massive amount of fraud being committed by the Long Island Rail Road (LIRR) and its employees back in October of 2011; and apparently the story...

February 12th, 2013 | 4, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Chainsaw Amputation Scam Finally Ends at Sentencing

You may recognize the name David Player if you have been keeping up with our blog stories. If not, then shame on you. But seriously, he’s the 58-year-old ringleader of the insurance scam that involved cutting off the hand of a mentally disabled man. You can read all about that scheme here. Player was...

December 20th, 2012 | Scandalous Schemes | Read More

FL Chiropractor Pleads Guilty for part in Staged Accident Scam

Back in June we followed up on a story we originally brought you in May, about a staged accident ring in Floridainvolving 26 defendants, 2 separate indictments, fraudulent insurance documents, and 8 clinics. Yet another defendant, chiropractor Jennifer Adams, has now pled guilty, this time to Conspiracy...

November 8th, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

Golf Tournament Insurance Fiasco Continues, CEO Arraigned

Back in May we brought you the story of the hole-in-one gone wrong; a company allegedly sold a “hole-in-one” policy for a golf tournament, in which a participant sunk the lucky shot, but they wouldn’t pay out the prize money. According to the NorwalkPatch, the company’s CEO, Kevin Kolenda,...

September 28th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

Zisa Receives 5 years but Stays out on Bail

There is some new information on a story that we last told you about in August, the story of Ken Zisa, the former Hackensack Police Chief who was found guilty of misconduct and insurance fraud. He’s back in the news now due to the September 20th delivery of his five-year prison sentence. According...

September 21st, 2012 | 1, Insurance Fraud | Read More

Chainsaw Amputation Scam Ends with Guilty Plea

As if movies such as Saw and Texas Chainsaw Massacre aren’t enough, there’s also the story we brought you back in February about Gerald B. Hardin, the guy who cut off a mentally disabled man’s hand with a chainsaw in order to get the $671,000 insurance payout. At the time of that article we didn’t...

September 19th, 2012 | 2, Scandalous Schemes | Read More

Eight Floridians Arrested for Staged Crashes

Florida’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO) announced on September 4th that eight South Florida residents were arrested and charged with participating in several staged accidents in connection with six insurance fraud rings. According to the WPLG News and CFO Jeff Atwater, fraud has been a contributing...

September 5th, 2012 | Staged Accidents | Read More

$154M Alleged Surgery Scam Trial Begins

Back in November we brought you this story, about several people who were accused of participating in a scheme that brought in healthy patients for unneeded surgeries in order to get the money that would come out of the fraudulent insurance bills to follow. According to The Orange County Register, the...

August 30th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

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