A Miami-Dade woman who received $12,359.39 from FEMA for damage claimed to a house she no longer owned has pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud, the U.S. Attorney’s Office told the South Florida Sun-Sentinel. Miranda Woodard, 36, was …
Rev. Joyce Chandler has been apprehended in Miami-Dade County, Fla. and accused of filing a false insurance claim with Citizens Property Insurance Company for $89,000 for damages done to her home last September by Hurricane Frances. Chandler’s house was demolished …
A Miami federal grand jury indicted 18 members of a ring accused of “crashing for cash.” Court documents indicate the individuals recruited drivers to claim they were in automobile crashes, went to four clinics for treatments and fraudulently charged 30 …
Without hearing arguments, the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has upheld a lower court ruling that permits four corporations to bypass the state regulator’s liquidation procedures involving failed carrier Legion Insurance Co. and obtain their settlement monies directly from Legion’s reinsurers. The …
Medicaid fraud consisting of financial abuses by doctors, providers and patients will be targeted by a new 10-member fraud unit being formed in North Carolina. “We have to ensure that every Medicaid dollar is well spent,” Allen Dobson, a top …
London insurance companies facing asbestos, pollution and other long-tail liabilities to U.S. policyholders that resort to so-called “solvent schemes” to cut off claims and avoid liquidation have been dealt a serious blow. An English High Court ruling denying such a …
During this already active hurricane season, officials at the Texas Department of Insurance are reminding all Gulf Coast home and business owners that is important to periodically review your insurance policies to ensure that coverages are adequate and up-to-date. Ideally …
Ohio Gov. Bob Taft recently reversed course and agreed to release weekly reports from top officials at the embattled state insurance fund for injured workers, according to the Associated Press. Releasing the reports from January 1999 through August of last …
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s office reported that a former employee of Gore’s Southlake Insurance Agency has been charged with multiple violations of the state’s computer crimes act and embezzlement. According to Attorney General Drew Edmondson, Sabrina Diane Sands, 27, was …
The removal of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act, set to expire Dec. 31, could return the insurance market to the uncertainty of the aftermath of Sept. 11, 2001, according to Florida Insurance Commissioner Kevin McCarty. The Florida Office of Insurance …