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Insurance Category: Subject Description: Information on auto insurance. Page Sections: Topics · Documents · Article Index |
| National Automobile Theft Bureau |
| Date | Document | Details |
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| 1987 publication date | [Annual Report, 1987] | Research Report ( PDF) 5.5MB · 38 pagesPublisher: National Automobile Theft Bureau |
| 4 March 2020 hearing date | Drivers of Discrimination: An Examination of Unfair Premiums, Practices, and Policies in the Auto Insurance Industry Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Housing, Community Development, and Insurance of the Committee on Financial Services | Hearing Transcript ( PDF) 36.0MB · 205 pages Publisher: U.S. House of Representatives |
| Date | Article | Details |
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| March 1986 | Automobile Insurance Fraud Pays...and Pays Well A multimillion dollar automobile insurance fraud scheme came to light in mid-1982 through an investigation conducted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Atlantic City. | Commentary ( PDF) Publication: FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin Byline: Mary Ellen Beekman |
| 5 June 2023 | CURE Auto Insurance Goes Live in Claims Operations with Cloverleaf Analytics’ Insurance Intelligence Platform In 2021, CURE began migrating from a legacy platform to coincide with the launch of their Michigan market expansion. | Press Release ( PDF) Publisher: Cloverleaf Analytics via PRWeb Byline: Michael Schwabrow Dateline: San Francisco, California  Topic: CURE Auto Insurance |
| 21 February 2024 | Cary Businessman Pleads Guilty to Evading More than $1 Million in Taxes The investigation revealed that BIA operated a high-volume, cash-intensive business that, among other things, registered and titled vehicles on behalf of undocumented aliens through the use of assumed business name certificates filed with the register of deeds. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: New Bern, North Carolina |
| 26 February 2024 | New Orleans Woman Guilty of Staged Automobile Accident Conspiracy Shirley Harris and Antoine Clark made false police reports, filed fraudulent lawsuits, lied during deposition testimony, and sought unnecessary medical treatment to further their fraudulent claims. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 6 March 2024 | Columbia Man, Woman Sentenced in $1.1 Million Insurance Fraud Scheme Lawrence Courtney Lawhorn recruited friends, acquittances, family, and friends of friends to participate in the staged accidents. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Missouri Dateline: Jefferson City, Missouri |
| 21 March 2024 | California man sentenced to federal prison for defrauding local business out of $10 million Defendant used stolen funds to buy yacht, amphibious plane, luxury vehicle. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of Ohio Dateline: Columbus, Ohio Topics: Root, Brinson Caleb Silver |
| 7 May 2024 | Five Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Local Pair with Conspiracy to Commit Murder of Federal Witness in Connection with the Staging of Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the Indictment, Ryan J. Harris, Jovanna R. Gardner, Cornelius Garrison, and others participated in a scheme in which they intentionally caused staged automobile collisions with other vehicles in the New Orleans metropolitan area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 3 June 2024 | New Jersey Man Sentenced To 10 Years In Prison For Leading One Of The Largest No-Fault Insurance Frauds In New York History New York and New Jersey No-Fault insurance laws require a driver’s automobile insurance company to pay automobile insurance claims automatically for certain types of motor vehicle accidents, provided that the claim is legitimate and below a particular monetary threshold. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 25 July 2024 | United States Sues National General Holdings Corp. and Subsidiaries for Falsely Placing Insurance on Hundreds of Thousands of Borrowers’ Vehicles The government’s complaint alleges that, from at least 2008 and through the latter part of 2016, National General systemically failed to accurately track whether cars financed by Wells Fargo had the requisite insurance coverage from an outside carrier, and thereby knowingly or recklessly force-placed its own, much costlier CPI on at least 655,000 vehicles that already had outside insurance. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Western District of Pennsylvania |
| 7 August 2024 | Fraud Ringleader and Former Fugitive William Mize Pleads Guilty in Federal Court These schemes greatly increase insurance premiums and costs for everyone, making it more expensive for ordinary Americans to own a car and to have reliable transportation for themselves and their families. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Washington Byline: Robert Curry Dateline: Spokane, Washington |
| 8 August 2024 | San Francisco Tow Company Operator Charged With Insurance Fraud And Money Laundering The indictment also alleges that, at the time of the offenses in 2019, Badillo owned and/or controlled at least two companies engaged in the business of towing vehicles: Jose’s Towing, LLC, and Auto Towing, LLC, both of which operated out of San Francisco. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California Topic: Jose Vicente Badillo |
| 28 August 2024 | San Francisco Tow Company Operator Charged In Second Insurance Fraud Case According to an indictment returned by a federal grand jury, Kirill Afanasyev, Jose Vicente Badillo, both of San Francisco, and Jaime Respicio, of Pleasant Hill, California, conspired to defraud an auto insurance company by submitting a fraudulent insurance claim on a wrecked car that Afanasyev purchased in May 2019. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of California Dateline: San Francisco, California |
| 17 October 2024 | Four Defendants Charged In Multi-Million Dollar No-Fault Insurance Fraud Scheme And Money Laundering Conspiracy Kenan Tariverdi, Nazim Tariverdi, and Dilshod Islamov devised a fraudulent scheme to take advantage of New York’s no fault insurance law, which enables the driver and passengers of a vehicle registered and insured in New York State to obtain benefits of up to $50,000 per person for injuries suffered in a car accident, regardless of fault. | Press Release (text & document) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Southern District of New York |
| 3 December 2024 | Cary Businessman Sentenced to Prison for Over $1 Million in Tax Evasion Scheme “This businessman’s convoluted scheme involved titling cars for cash and using that cash to creatively conceal his income and fuel a lifestyle complete with high-end vehicles and a million-dollar home.” said U.S. Attorney Michael F. Easley Jr. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of North Carolina Dateline: Raleigh, North Carolina |
| 9 December 2024 | Ten Count Indictment Unsealed Charging Eight Individuals and Two Law Firms with Offenses in Connection with Staged Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to the superseding indictment, defendants Harris, Alfortish, Motta, Motta Law, Giles, The King Firm, Morgan, Parker, Stalbert, and Lawrence were members of a conspiracy that engaged in a fraud scheme, obstruction of justice, witness tampering, witness tampering through murder, and retaliation against a witness through murder. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |
| 13 January 2025 | Man Admits Staging Auto Accidents to Commit Insurance Fraud He went to the emergency room complaining of “non-determinative pain that required expensive tests that never identified any particular injury.” | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Missouri Byline: Robert Patrick Dateline: St. Louis, Missouri |
| 16 January 2025 | New Orleans Man Guilty of Murder in Connection with Staged Automobile Collisions in the New Orleans Area According to court filings, Ryan J. Harris admitted to acting as a “slammer” in a scheme in which he and his co-conspirators intentionally staged automobile collisions in the New Orleans metropolitan area. | Press Release (text) Publisher: U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of Louisiana Byline: Shane M. Jones Dateline: New Orleans, Louisiana |