Two owners of a south Chicago area home health care business and a suspended podiatrist were arrested for allegedly defrauding Medicare of more than $1.5 million.

A Charles County, Md., man was indicted for allegedly setting his house on fire Feb. 15 intentionally to collect insurance payments.

A Des Moines, Wash., insurance agent pleaded guilty to eight counts of first degree theft for selling fake insurance to more than 40 oral surgeons in two western states.

Four Rhode Island people, including an unlicensed insurance adjuster, pleaded guilty to conspiring to collect an insurance claim on an uninsured home with flood damage.

A Miami, Fla.-area man pleaded guilty to participating in two separate fraud schemes that led to the submission of more than $200 million in fraudulent claims to Medicare, according to federal prosecutors.

A Bothell, Wash., insurance agent who used clients’ identities to steal more than $200,000 from banks and credit card companies, was sentenced to three years in prison.

A Billings, Mont., businessman pleaded not guilty in federal court to allegations that he assisted a former claims adjuster to defraud a Wyoming insurance company in a fake claims scheme.

Two former owners of a Stoughton, Mass.-based temporary employment agency were convicted of paying their employees under the table to avoid paying more than $7 million in taxes and workers’ compensation insurance premiums.

A former Edmond, Okla., insurance agent faces a felony charge of embezzlement for allegedly pocketing some of a couple’s auto and home premium payments.

Five people were sentenced to state prison, the latest members of a Jersey City, N.J.-based drug ring that trafficked prescription pain pills in Hudson, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean and Bergen counties, according to the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office.