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Jul22
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This week was a very busy one for insurance fraud and scams in general. I am a little miffed as to the reason behind the first story. Why would the two nurses and the doctor give lethal doses of drugs to patients? I am assuming they were not colluding together but instead made a huge mistake with the quantity of the dosages. If you can shed some light on that particular story then please let us know.
- Patient Deaths Due To Overdose - Louisiana Attorney General Charles C. Foti, Jr., announced that his Medicaid Fraud Control Unit (MFCU) has made three arrests in the investigation surrounding patient deaths at Memorial Medical Center in New Orleans. The investigation involves allegations that some doctors and nurses administered lethal doses of the drugs morphine and/or midazolam to several patients who were in the long term care unit, operated by Lifecare Hospitals, on the seventh floor of Memorial Medical Center.
- Workers Compensation Fraud - Oklahoma Attorney General Drew Edmondson reported that the former claims director for CompSource Oklahoma is accused of one count of workers' compensation fraud in a Multicounty Grand Jury indictment unsealed recently in Oklahoma County District Court.
- Home Repair Fraud - An Oklahoma City man was arrested this morning on allegations of home repair fraud after an investigation by Attorney General Drew Edmondson's Consumer Protection Unit. The man arrested “is accused of contracting to perform various home repair and remodeling projects at four locations and failing to perform any work or refund down payment money," Edmondson said. "The total monetary loss in this case is $29,200, with individual losses ranging from $500 to $21,000."
- Insurance Agent Embezzlement - Shawn Edwin Linger, a former insurance agent in Clarksburg, W.Va. has been sentenced to one felony count of embezzlement according to Insurance Commissioner, Jane L. Cline.
- 3 Arrests For Working Without Workers Comp Insurance - Job site inspections in St. Lucie County, Fla. have resulted in the arrests of three individuals and the issuance of 15 Cease and Desist orders for unauthorized workers and two citations of $2,500 for unlicensed contracting.
- $400,000 Hurricane Fraud - Two licensed public adjusters who fraudulently collected more than $400,000 from two insurance companies by submitting bogus contractor agreements have been arrested in Miami by detectives in the Department of Financial Services Division of Insurance Fraud.
- Insurance / Credit Fraud - A judge striving to be the fairest of them all on Tuesday sentenced to a year in jail a woman who pretended to be a Saudi Arabian princess as she fleeced insurance and credit card companies. It was not a storybook ending for Antoinette Millard, 43, who admitted to criminal charges brought after she stole hundreds of thousands of dollars by failing to pay for items she had charged on her American Express Centurion black card. She also admitted she had tried to collect a $262,000 insurance payout by saying that jewels she had sold had been stolen.
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