The insurance company that paid Drake University’s theft claim has filed a lawsuit against the former Drake administrator who stole the money. The Des Moines Register reports that Employers Mutual Casualty Co. filed the lawsuit this week against Robert Harlan. …
The city of Antioch has agreed to pay $360,000 to settle a class action lawsuit alleging police formed a special unit to target and harass black residents who received subsidized rent. The City Council agreed to settle the three year-old …
Mark Lindquist, whose against-the-odds story of survival and heroism in the Joplin tornado touched people around the world, got some good news Monday: The insurance company that initially denied his medical claim agreed to pay. Lindquist, 51, was hurt while …
A west Alabama man is facing federal fraud charges linked to benefit claims following the April 27 tornadoes. Federal authorities say 47-year-old Robert Lee Spires received about $1,600 in improper assistance from the Federal Emergency Management Agency after the twisters. …
A Florida man has pleaded guilty to attempting to defraud the BP oil spill claims fund by faking losses from a commercial fishing business. Court records show 37-year-old Eliu Gonzalez of Florida City pleaded guilty Wednesday to a wire fraud …
Pamela Gosney, 51, was charged with workers’ compensation fraud, according to the Oklahoma Attorney General Workers’ Compensation Fraud Unit. According to authorities, Gosney filed a claim with the Workers’ Compensation Court on May 24, 2010, for alleged injuries sustained while …
A Hawaii-based soldier who says he swallowed needles that were hidden in a Burger King hamburger is suing the fast food chain. Army Staff Sgt. Clark Bartholomew filed the federal lawsuit in Honolulu this week. He says he bought a …
Seeking to recover $4.5 million from medical providers in a scheme to allegedly bill insurance companies for procedures that were medically unnecessary and/or inappropriate, Allstate Insurance Company, filed counterclaims and complaints against the perpetrators. Allstate filed counterclaims and a third …
A decision is pending from the Mississippi Supreme Court in another wind vs. water case, this one involving a Pascagoula home subjected to 6.3 feet of storm surge. The National Flood Insurance Program paid Jackson County sheriff’s deputy Michael Robichaux …
A major New York-based law firm says there’s no truth to a former finance chief’s lawsuit saying she was demoted and then fired after taking sick leave to fight breast cancer. Proskauer Rose LLP called Elly Rosenthal’s discrimination claims “meritless” …