A former Pennsylvania judge lost his bid to get his conviction and sentence on charges linked to filing false insurance claims overturned in federal court.

A former police officer with the Norfolk (Va.) Police Department pleaded guilty to mail fraud charges in federal court in connection with a false insurance claim filed on his Mercedes Benz.

Seventeen people from Pennsylvania and New Jersey, including a chiropractor and lawyer, face charges of mail fraud in connection with a scheme to cheat insurers out of hundreds of thousands of dollars by staging phony auto accidents.

A former Lancaster County, Pa., doctor, charged in March 2009 with bilking patients and insurers of $8 million, pleaded guilty in federal court in Harrisburg, Pa., to charges of health care fraud and mail fraud.

Two former executives with The Hartford pleaded guilty in federal court to accepting BMWs and millions in cash to help a Texas attorney obtain settlements in one of his cases.

A Royersford, Pa., man admitted to a scam in which he received $79,600 from Allstate Insurance for jewelry he reported as stolen, but was actually used as collateral for loans.

A California physician could be sentenced to 166 years in prison after his conviction for defrauding insurance companies by billing cosmetic work as “medically necessary” procedures.

The former bookkeeper of a Dalton, Ga., insurance company faces federal charges of mail fraud and bank fraud for allegedly stealing $1 million from her employer for personal expenses, including trips to Disney World, New York and Washington, D.C.