LoJack Signal on Reported Stolen Car Reveals Organized Insurance Fraud Ring Detectives from the California Department of Insurance, arrested four people early this morning for allegedly ripping off four auto insurers for more than $34,000 by filing fraudulent insurance claims. …
For years, Spyros Panos seemed like a successful orthopedic surgeon, seeing dozens of patients a day and bringing in millions of dollars in fees for his suburban New York medical group. In fact, he was inflating charges and billing for …
A reputed Philadelphia mob boss who reinvented himself as a restaurateur relapsed into a life of crime by orchestrating a healthcare fraud that made a fortune for an East Coast crime syndicate, a prosecutor said Tuesday in opening arguments at …
A Texas doctor wrote unnecessary prescriptions for powerful drugs that contributed to the overdose deaths of at least seven people over a four-year period, according to a federal indictment unsealed Wednesday. Howard Gregg Diamond, 56, was arrested Tuesday on charges …
Healthcare fraud related financial losses amount to tens of billions of dollars each year, according to the National Health Care Anti-Fraud Association. As medical claims fraud in the property/casualty sector has evolved so too has the process to uncover it, …
Fraud continues to be problem for the insurance industry and medical fraud, in particular, is growing according to Andy Tolsma, solutions manager for the P&C Medical Fraud payments accuracy division for Verisk Health. Industrywide 10 percent of all P&C have …
An orthopedic surgeon was charged as the ringleader in one of the state’s biggest health fraud schemes, which included unnecessary operations by an untrained assistant that scarred patients forever, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday. Dr. Munir Uwaydah and 14 associates, …
A North Texas chiropractor has been sentenced to more than 12 years in prison for billing healthcare providers for services that were never rendered. Dr. Abbas Zahedi of Carrollton was sentenced Monday in federal court and ordered to pay $2.4 …