insurance fraud

Identity theft is a crime that can have long-lasting implications. Now the number of repeat victims is on the rise.

Two U.S. Navy service members were sentenced in San Diego federal court Friday for their roles in an insurance fraud scheme that involved making false medical claims to a military insurance program in exchange for unearned benefits.

Four of the ten suspects accused of rolling back car mileage have been arrested.

A South Jersey doctor is accused of supplying more than a million doses of opioids to multiple patients over the course of three years, according to the Burlington County prosecutor’s office.

Two Trump Tower residents allegedly lost more than $350,000 of jewelry to a thief or thieves, the NYPD said.

A man trashed his pizza restaurant and ice cream shop near Atlanta to fake a racially motivated burglary so he could file an insurance claim, police said. Gwinnett County police officers responded just before 9:30 p.m. Wednesday after a 911 call reporting a man damaging the businesses, according to a Friday news release. The caller said the man was driving...

A Mira Mesa dentist was charged Tuesday with insurance fraud for falsifying hundreds of root canal records to scam insurance companies out of nearly $600,000, the San Diego County District Attorney’s Office said.

A Mira Mesa dentist faces dozens of felony charges for insurance fraud after she claimed she performed 623 root canals on 75 patients. NBC 7’s Monica Dean has more.

A transgender woman convicted of insurance fraud is serving time at a men’s prison in North Carolina despite her repeated requests to transfer to women’s housing. The News and Observer reports 37-year-old Kanautica Zayre-Brown is believed to be the state’s only post-operative transgender prisoner. But the state recognizes her as a man and by her birth name, which was legally...

An office manager for a medical practice was convicted Thursday for a workers’ compensation kickback scheme that defrauded insurance companies of more than $22 million, the San Diego District Attorney’s Office announced Friday.

A Shawnee State University professor is suing officials after receiving a written warning for violating its nondiscrimination policy by not addressing a transgender student using the gender terms preferred by the student. Nicholas Meriwether, a philosophy professor and evangelical Christian, filed a federal lawsuit this month against officials at the university in Portsmouth.

A newly unsealed lawsuit by Tennessee’s attorney general says the maker of the world’s top-selling painkiller directed its salesforce to target the highest prescribers, many with limited or no pain management background or training....
The lawsuit says Purdue violated a 2007 settlement with the state, placing profits over people with a deceptive narrative that claimed its opioids were safer than they...

A San Diego County Sheriff’s deputy faces multiple felony charges for allegedly faking a back injury to receive workers’ compensation, announced the District Attorney Monday.

A San Diego doctor with a history of drug and alcohol abuse and a felony conviction for prescription fraud can continue practicing medicine, after settling her discipline case with the Medical Board of California.

Florida officials say arsonists have ignited about 320 wildfires so far this year, burning more than 20,000 acres across the state.

Insurance fraud cases are an expensive drain on the state’s economy totaling billions annually, according to the state’s insurance commissioner.

The paramedics who looked at Robert Breininger’s lifeless body in his twin bed suspected right away that whatever happened didn’t match the story being told by his 10-year-old son.

A central Pennsylvania psychologist has been jailed on charges that “touching therapy” he used on two female patients really amounted to sexual abuse, for which he fraudulently billed insurance companies more than $71,000.