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Twitter Helps Catch 60-Year-Old Fugitive Convicted of Insurance Fraud 1 Aug 2013 | 08:01 pm
David Boroff of the New York Daily News reports that 60-year-old San Diego native, Wanda Podgurski, a former Amtrak clerk, was charged with insurance fraud after investigators discovered that she had ...
ICU Update: “Disabled” NJ Police Officer’s Pension Revoked 1 Aug 2013 | 07:59 pm
In ICU’s May 2013 Newsletter, we reported the story of Joseph Derrico, a retired Hamilton Township, New Jersey police officer, collecting a disability pension of about $70,000 per year. New Jersey Wat...
Auto Theft Ring Leader Pleads Guilty in NJ 1 Aug 2013 | 07:57 pm
An article in Insurance Journal reports that Jose D. Lopez, 33, of South Amboy, New Jersey has admitted to directing a vehicle theft ring including 100 stolen vehicles and totaling more than $550,000....
Ten Frequented Types of Insurance Fraud 1 Jul 2013 | 05:48 pm
Businessinsurance.org weighs in on ten frequented types of insurance fraud: 1. Vehicle Theft Vehicle Theft fraud scams are most commonly carried out by people that sell their vehicles to a chop s...
Electronically Stored Information: Demand and Necessity 1 Jul 2013 | 05:45 pm
Electronically Stored Information, or ESI for short, is a demand and necessity in the ever-changing world of technology from an investigative standpoint, and ICU takes pride in offering this informati...
Social Media Fraud Scams Affect Large Demographic Audience 1 Jul 2013 | 05:39 pm
According to an article on www.thefrauddog.com, scams are popping up all over social media sites like Facebook, Vine, Pinterest, etc., for the purpose of putting your information on a list that is the...
Pastor and Friend Sentenced in Liberty Mutual Insurance Scam 3 Jun 2013 | 08:29 pm
Carl Hessler Jr. of The Reporter states that Kyung Soon Kim, a Montgomery Township pastor, and friend Kathleen Bangwhan Chung, have been sentenced in connection to a car insurance scam on behalf of Li...
Medicare Scam Sends Ambulance Operator to Prison 3 Jun 2013 | 08:27 pm
According to John P. Martin of the Philadelphia Inquirer, William Hlushmanuk, a Ukrainian resident of Northeast Philadelphia, started an ambulance service that frequented dialysis centers three times ...
Insurance Fraud? “No Big Deal,” According to 24% of Americans 3 Jun 2013 | 08:23 pm
Carrie Burns of Insurance Networking News reports that according to Insurance Research Council’s public opinion study, 24% of Americans think it is suitable to falsely increase a claim to compensate f...
Keep an Eye Out for these Auto Insurance Scams 1 May 2013 | 06:42 pm
1. Counterfeit Air Bags Jim Quiggle, a spokesman for the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud in Washington, D.C., says this in reference to repairing deployed airbags after car crashes: “Crooked repair ...
