Three men from Ft. Lauderdale, Fla., were arrested Feb. 29 for allegedly cheating health insurance companies of $3 million about two years after they were charged in one of the largest alleged Ponzi schemes in history.

A California insurance agent was sentenced to 90 days in jail Feb. 29 after being convicted of selling an annuity to an elderly woman with dementia.

A Virginia man was sentenced to almost five years in prison for his role in an investment scam that cost investors about $815,000.

A group of 36 people was accused of an alleged scheme to defraud New York insurers of more than $279 million in the largest alleged single no-fault automobile insurance fraud charge ever.

A Saratoga Springs, N.Y., businessman was accused of defrauding insureds, an insurer and New York State by enrolling at least eight ineligible business owners in a state health program and pocketing the service fees they paid him.

Former New York Sen. Nicholas A. Spano (35th District) pleaded guilty Feb. 11 in federal court in White Plains, N.Y., to filing fraudulent tax returns involving payment from an insurance company.

Two North Carolina men were arrested Feb. 9 for allegedly conspiring to file a fraudulent insurance claim on a damaged property and blaming it on Hurricane Irene.

A Virginia father was sentenced after pleading guilty to defrauding his adopted daughter and an insurance company to collect the proceeds of a $500,000 life insurance policy on his deceased wife.

Two former Ohio insurance agents and a resident agent were accused Feb. 3 in Brown County Court of Common Pleas of misleading their stop-loss insurance clients and pilfering more than $405,000 from them.

Two insurance agents in Lakeland, Fla., were arrested Feb. 3 for allegedly stealing more than $422,000 from the brokerage for which they worked and from where their mother retired.