Auto insurance fraud receives more attention from state agency

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Insurance Department begins to increase its efforts to combat insurance fraud throughout California The California Department of Insurance has begun to focus more heavily on fighting auto insurance fraud in the Los Angeles area. The agency has been working to track down and eliminate fraud in this area for some time, but has only found modest success. Those participating in fraud have, thus far, managed to find ways to sidestep regulations and continue exploiting consumers and insurance companies alike. Recently, the agency has found more success in its fight against…

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Insurance fraud activities bring arrest of a Los Angeles man

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The individual’s alleged schemes occurred outside of California and were focused on residents of Louisiana. A man from Los Angeles, California has now been placed under arrest by authorities in New Orleans after having allegedly been taking part in an insurance fraud scheme that involved the sale of fake employer’s liability and workers compensation policies throughout Louisiana. This insurance scam announcement was made by Attorney General Buddy Caldwell. The individual in this insurance fraud case, fifty year old Terry Frances, has now been charged with five separate counts of theft…

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Insurance agent loses license after alleged DNA fraud

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The former employee of Mukilteo State Farm following a number of different ethical violations. A former insurance agent named Jaime Sue Joyner, previously of Mukilteo State Farm, has now had her license revoked by Washington state after investigators discovered that she had been involved in a number of activities that are not permitted. Joyner was allegedly involved in a number of different ethical violations while she was on the job. Among the ethical violations of which she has been accused was submitting a sample of her own DNA in place…

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Man pleads guilty to murder in life insurance fraud case

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The individual has admitted to helping a friend kill his wife in order to claim the policy’s benefits. A DNA match in evidence from a murder case has led a man to plead guilty to having helped his friend to kill his wife so that benefits could be claimed on the life insurance policy that had been taken out for her. Initially, Dellendo Campbell had thought that he was not going to be caught for his involvement in the murder. The reason that Campbell believed that he wouldn’t be caught…

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Homeowners insurance fraud scheme in California sells fake policies in fire risk areas

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There has been a vicious rash of bogus coverage sales as property owners desperately seek new protection. According to a recent homeowners insurance news release by the California Department of Insurance, yet another arrest has been made as property owners in areas at a high fire risk have fallen victim to a fake policy scam. The report identified 57 year old Dean Joseph Basler of Ventura as the latest embezzler. It stated that the Ventura County Sheriff had arrested Basler following a homeowners insurance investigation conducted by the Department of…

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