April 21, 2014
A pet shop owner pleaded not guilty to fraud and attempted theft charges in a fire at a Las Vegas, Nev., pet shop where 27 puppies and dogs were rescued by firefighters. Records show Gloria Lee entered her pleas Wednesday …
January 16, 2014
Campaign finance filings indicate Ohio Republican Josh Mandel sold a vehicle disabled in a March wreck to an online auction company after withdrawing an insurance claim. The 2004 Jeep Grand Cherokee went for $938 to Copart Inc. of Dallas. Mandel …
November 19, 2013
A Nicholas County family whose house was riddled with bullets during a July standoff is waiting for police to help repair the damage. Rick and Sonja Cool found dozens of bullet holes in their bedroom, their children’s bedroom and the …
October 25, 2013
LSB Industries, Inc., a manufacturing and marketing company, previously reported that it filed an insurance claim for losses and damages in connection with the May 15, 2012, explosion of a reactor in the 98 percent strength nitric acid plant at …
May 23, 2013
Brenda O’Malley figured she’d get the police accident report and file an insurance claim after her teenage daughter got into a car accident in Sheboygan Falls this past spring. But the report turned out to be so redacted – or …
March 19, 2013
Lingering guilt may have been what moved someone who filed an insurance claim 40 years ago to come clean with a Gastonia, N.C., insurance agency. The Gaston Gazette reports that whoever took a $280 claim check in 1973 felt guilty …
July 23, 2012
Spirit AeroSystems estimates its insurance claim from an April tornado will be about $400 million. The Kansas company said Thursday that it took a $55 million charge, or 26 cents per share, in the second quarter for expenses related to …
June 21, 2012
Federal prosecutors say a Logan County, W.Va., woman has admitted her role in starting an apartment fire in exchange for cash from someone who filed an insurance claim. U.S. Attorney Booth Goodwin says 46-year-old Kimberly D. Kinder of Chapmanville pleaded …
December 14, 2011
A southern Illinois grain elevator operator has pleaded guilty to federal fraud charges. The Belleville News-Democrat reports 47-year-old John Kniepmann of Breese in Clinton County pleaded guilty to two counts of mail fraud Monday in U.S. District Court in East …
November 29, 2011
Two men in Texas have been sentenced to prison for conspiring to commit arson in order to obtain insurance proceeds, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of Texas announced. Blaise Hancock, of Arlington, Texas, and Clint Allen, of …