A Scranton, Pa., man was charged with insurance fraud for allegedly filing a false insurance claim after he reported multiple pieces of property stolen, including his truck.

Allstate Insurance Co. sued 83 New York area people, seeking to recover $6.3 million, in its seventh civil insurance fraud suit filed this year.

A Stamford, Conn., man pleaded guilty to conspiring to defraud more than 10 insurance carriers of about $1.7 million, according to federal prosecutors.

A former Martin County, Fla., insurance agent pleaded guilty to organized fraud concerning a Fort Lauderdale-based insurance company.

A Wake Forest, N.C., man pleaded guilty Nov. 29 to his role in a $2.7 million workers’ compensation scheme, according to Florida insurance regulators.

The U.S. Supreme Court refused to address a petition by an auto insurance company over a West Virginia ruling preventing it from retaining private medical records used against it in a civil suit.

A group of New Jersey residents pleaded guilty to an insurance fraud and theft ring, operating out of a Philadelphia auto body repair shop.

Two Leesburg, Va., men, an accountant and a lawyer, pleaded guilty to an insurance scheme to fraudulently acquire $500,000 in life insurance proceeds from the accountant’s daughter.

New Jersey’s anti-fraud effort, launched in March as part of a campaign to eliminate wasteful spending, have prevented about $56 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance payments, officials said recently.

An estate and financial-planning lawyer in Philadelphia, his father and several investment brokers in New Jersey were accused of operating an $8.5 million Ponzi scheme that allegedly defrauded 73 investors.