A New Jersey man was sanctioned for helping people cheat on a New Jersey continuing education course on long-term care insurance.

A registered financial representative from Edgewater, N.J., was fined $5,000 for altering customer’s phone numbers in his company’s database to deter other employees from following up with those people after he left the job.

A Connecticut man was fined $5,000 by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) for taking financial advisors’ state continuing education examinations and helping others to complete the tests, records show.

A registered financial representative from Martinez, Ga., was barred by the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) after he improperly took money from a client’s variable annuity.

The owner of an Essex County pain management center will pay more than $88,000 in penalties and restitution through a deal with New Jersey officials to settle allegations including fraudulently billing insurance companies.

Following up on an emergency cease and desist order issued last month, Maine regulators are prohibiting a Tennessee company and its operators from continuing activity in the state and have ordered the firm to pay of $1.2 million in civil penalties.

A bill penalizing insurers for denying coverage of medically necessary tests is moving forward in the Delaware House of Representatives with the support of state insurance regulators.

Regulators in South Carolina have issued an emergency cease and desist order against two state residents and several individuals and companies, in what they are calling a “nationwide, multimillion dollar health insurance fraud scheme.”

A former Ponte Vedra Beach, Fla., financial advisor is now permanently barred from the industry for misappropriating more than $1.9 million of his clients’ funds and taking other actions to hide his scheme.

A registered financial representative from Curwensville, Pa., was fined and barred by FINRA for two years for failing to get actual customer signatures on variable annuity forms.