A Costa Rican insurance company pleaded guilty April 20 in federal court in Richmond, Va., to a $670 million insurance fraud scheme, while its majority owner’s trial began this week.

A supervisor with the Pennsylvania State Workman’s Insurance Fund is accused of bribery for allegedly taking at least 15 kickbacks.

Two Rhode Island men, including a lawyer, were charged with allegedly stealing the identities of terminally-ill patients and elderly to obtain more than $25 million from insurance companies and bond issuers.

New York, N.Y.-based life settlement broker sold A&O’s remaining life insurance portfolio for $4.84 million after the company filed for bankruptcy.

Five employees of a life-settlement company, including two executives, who admitted to conspiring to bilk more than 800 investors were sentenced to prison for their roles in the $100 million, life-settlement fraud scheme.

A Webster, Mass.-based insurance company won a multi-million dollar civil insurance fraud lawsuit filed in Boston against chiropractic practices the insurer used to cover.

Eight people in Louisiana were indicted by a federal grand jury on charges stemming from an alleged staged crash ring operating for up to seven years.

A lawyer in Florida has admitted to conspiring to fraudulently sell life insurance policies held in the name of AIDS patients.

A Millstone, N.J., man was sentenced to three years in state prison after pleading guilty to second-degree conspiracy to commit insurance fraud in a case concerning an auto repair shop insurance scheme.

A Vineland, N.J., man was sentenced to state prison for five years after his conviction for setting his aunt’s automobile ablaze so that she could collect insurance proceeds.