A North Carolina insurance agent and his client were each charged with insurance fraud for an alleged life insurance scheme.

Two indictments charge a dozen people in Florida with operating a health care scheme defrauding car insurance companies of about $22.5 million.

The last of 36 defendants in Texas was convicted of conspiracy to defraud American Family Life Assurance Co. (Aflac) of more than $3 million by filing false injury claims.

A trial has begun for a Hackensack, N.J., police chief who allegedly interfered with the scene of an auto accident and filed a false insurance claim to protect his girlfriend.

A Jefferson, Pa., woman recently was accused of cashing more than $13,000 in insurance checks made out to the dental office she managed and pocketing the money.

Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed into a law a bill enabling the state insurance regulators to fight false certificates of insurance and those who request them.

The owner of Safe & Fare Transportation, a limousine and taxi service based in Newton, N.J., was indicted for allegedly registering and insuring his vehicles in New Jersey under false pretenses to obtain lower insurance premiums.

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.

The U.S. Department of Labor is giving states new resources to help them detect, prevent and recover improper unemployment payments and fraud.

Louisiana’s insurance commissioner, Jim Donelon, warned insurance agents of an alleged scam involving possible fraudulent insurance covering habitation risks that has at least one victim.