An attorney has pleaded guilty to his involvement in a life insurance scam that targeted elderly people. He was found guilty to a county of conspiracy to commit wire fraud. Prosecutors of the case said that he and a few others offered clients the promise of free life insurance for...
An insured was invited to a wedding and decided to present a photograph of the wedding to the bride and groom as a token of his gratitude. Without asking for permission with the authorities, he brought a drone and operated it sitting among the audience. As vows were being exchanged...
A woman while driving her car swerved into a café and barely missed hitting a few people. While the incident was being investigated and she was questioned on her actions, she said that she had just had a pedicure and the toe separator was still on her feet. She was...
The death of Carrie Fisher, has threatened to burn a hole in the pockets of the underwriters of Disney’s claim for loss. The studio, which owns the sci-fi saga, had wisely taken out so-called contractual-protection insurance (CPI) in case death thwarted a contractual obligation: in Fisher’s case to film and...
A man convicted in the killing of his fiancee to collect on her life insurance has been sentenced to 60 years in prison. He allegedly shot his fiancée dead after she made him the sole beneficiary of her USD100,000 life insurance policy. Authorities say he set his apartment on fire...
A man was accused of running an insurance scam in a fake call centre. He allegedly enticed innocent persons on the pretext of providing huge bonus on existing insurance policies and then cheating them in the name of depositing different taxes and charges for clearing the bonus amounts, according to...
A woman was involved in a vehicle collision. In a bid to claim more, she allegedly reported preexisting injuries from a collision earlier in the year to her insurer. The claims examiner took notice and sent law enforcement officers to arrest the woman. She has been arrested and charged with...
A group of four men were found guilty of staging fake motor vehicle collisions and claiming for medical treatment to the tune of USD80000. They were arraigned and charged with grand larceny, insurance fraud, falsifying business records, conspiracy and falsely reporting incidents. They would stage car crashes with nobody at...
A woman was injured at work when her colleagues sneaked up behind her donning Halloween masks. She was holding a glass of soda when she was startled, dropped the glass, slipped on the soda and fell on the broken shards. It was discovered that she also broke her hip in...
A lawsuit alleges that a chiropractor sent a car insurance company more than USD1 million in fraudulent bills. The doctor was claimed to have misdiagnoses and phony bills to charge the insurer USD716,453 in claims it has paid, and USD588,672 in bills it still owes. The chiropractor had set pre-determined...
