Insurance Journal

OCTOBER 10, 2024

A former insurance broker has pleaded guilty to a number of charges including insurance fraud for collecting premiums without placing coverage. Karen Marie Dondanville, 56, a former broker from Mission Viejo, pleaded guilty to 90 counts including grand theft auto, …

Pleadings 105

Pleadings Insurance 105

Law Sites

MARCH 14, 2024

When the committee asked Neusom about the pleadings during a telephone interview, he said that “he used Westlaw and Fastcase and may have used artificial intelligence to draft the filing(s) but was not able to check the excerpts and citations.”

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Legal Arguments Pleadings Legal Research 345

Insurance Journal

JULY 25, 2024

has completed an agreement with the US government to plead guilty to criminal conspiracy in connection with two fatal crashes of its 737 Max jetliner, setting the stage for a possible courtroom confrontation with relatives of those who …

Pleadings 111

Pleadings 111

Insurance Journal

JULY 30, 2024

A former insurance executive has pleaded guilty to defrauding his former employer, Allied World Insurance Co., James Keating of Paoli, Pennsylvania on January 30 pleaded … million in a scheme involving a shell company, bogus invoices, and vendor kickbacks.

Pleadings 105

Pleadings Insurance 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 10, 2024

The New Jersey Democratic power broker charged with racketeering by the state attorney general pleaded not guilty Tuesday to charges he threatened people whose properties he sought to take over and orchestrated tax incentive legislation to benefit organizations he controlled.

Pleadings 105

Pleadings 105

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A former state employee in Maryland has pleaded guilty in separate cases involving insurance fraud and felony theft. According to Maryland Attorney General Anthony G. Brown, the charges against Shanell Angelia West, of Essex, Maryland, stemmed from her actions during …

Pleadings 103

Pleadings Insurance 103

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

A Miami insurance agent has pleaded guilty to defrauding a Georgia credit union by obtaining loans for condominium associations’ premium financing then using the $6 million for personal gain. Heleonel Gonzalez, known as Leo, is set for sentencing in February, …

Pleadings 105

Pleadings Insurance 105

Insurance Journal

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

A Missouri farmer who appears in a reality TV show about his family’s farming operation pleaded guilty this week to a multi-million dollar fraud scheme involving federal crop insurance benefits. McBee, 52, waived his right to a grand …

Pleadings 105

Pleadings Insurance 105

Insurance Journal

JULY 12, 2024

AP) — A sitting Tennessee sheriff pleaded not guilty Wednesday to charges that he illegally profited from the work of jail inmates under his supervision and housed dozens of them in a home outside of the prison without … MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP)

Pleadings 102

Pleadings Insurance 102

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 19, 2024

A Florida car dealer is awaiting sentencing after he pleaded guilty to rolling back the odometers on at least three vehicles by thousands of miles. Drew Mitchell Schreiber, owner of Central Florida Automotive Group, in Winter Garden, admitted that he …

Pleadings 98

Pleadings Automotive Insurance 98

Insurance Journal

MARCH 30, 2025

A notorious public adjuster, already in prison for scamming Louisiana and Texas residents out of insurance proceeds, last week pleaded guilty to defrauding Brotherhood Mutual Insurance Co. and a Georgia church out of millions of dollars after the church was …

Pleadings 100

Pleadings Insurance 100

Insurance Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

A Missouri woman pleaded guilty Tuesday to a federal charge accusing her of concocting a brazen plot to defraud Elvis Presley’s family by trying to auction off his Graceland mansion and property before a judge halted the mysterious foreclosure sale.

Pleadings 97

Pleadings Insurance 97

Insurance Journal

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Seven people in South Carolina pleaded guilty this week to a scheme to defraud Aflac Insurance and other insurers out of more than $70,000 by making false claims with forged documents. But they won’t be going to prison. The South …

Pleadings 96

Pleadings Insurance 96

Insurance Journal

APRIL 21, 2025

A south Florida insurance broker is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty last week to a $134 million scheme that fraudulently enrolled thousands of people in Affordable Care Act health insurance plans. Dafud Iza, 54, of Pembroke Pines, signed a plea …

Pleadings 91

Pleadings Insurance 91

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 21, 2024

A 56-year-old former Washington State meter reader who claimed she was so traumatized from a workplace dog attack that she fainted at the sight of dogs has pleaded guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud case. According to a Washington State …

Pleadings 79

Pleadings 79

Insurance Journal

MAY 23, 2025

An insurance brokerage executive in California will plead guilty to breaking federal campaign laws by making contributions illegally to a joint fundraising committee, according to the U.S. Department of Justice’s Central District of California office. The DOJ charged Teena Maria …

Pleadings 69

Pleadings Insurance 69

Civil Litigation Brief

MAY 16, 2025

Allegations of fraud have to be pleaded with care. Those pleading such assertions must have “reasonably credible material” to support them. Here we look at a case where allegations of deceit were made. The judge found that the allegations had.

Pleadings 64

Pleadings Evidence 64

Insurance Journal

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

Seattle resident Jason Weisfeld of Federal Way, Washington, and Fedaa Shakir, both pleaded guilty to submitting false … A carpet-cleaning claim and a fake theft of a Hyundai has led to guilty pleas for two people for insurance fraud in Washington.

Pleadings 76

Pleadings Insurance 76

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 5, 2025

Here we look at an example of a claimant wishing to pursue a specific line of argument but having to accept that it was not pleaded and that. This series is giving rise to more cases than I initially thought.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Evidence 52

Insurance Journal

MARCH 12, 2025

The former CEO of Magellan Diagnostics pleaded guilty on Monday to a criminal charge related to a malfunction in the company’s lead-testing devices that produced inaccurately low results for tens of thousands of patients. Amy Winslow was the last of …

Pleadings 72

Pleadings 72

The 10b-5 Daily

JUNE 18, 2024

The district court dismissed the claims based on the plaintiffs’ failure to adequately plead falsity. “Sounds in fraud” – Section 11 and 12(a)(2) claims do not have fraud as an element, so generally they are not subject to the heightened pleading standard of Federal Rule of Civil Procedure 9(b).

Pleadings 187

Pleadings Litigation 187

Insurance Journal

JUNE 10, 2025

announced three investigations that have led to guilty pleas: James Levorn Rias pleaded guilty to a first-degree murder charge following a May 2024 fire in … The Texas State Fire Marshal’s Office (SFMO), a division of the Texas Department of Insurance.

Pleadings 67

Pleadings Insurance 67

Securities Docket

MAY 24, 2025

executives have pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges in connection with a scheme to fraudulently inflate the financial results of a company that promoted itself as the lottery equivalent of Uber or Doordash. Two former Lottery.com Inc.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings 52

Insurance Journal

APRIL 1, 2025

A Kentucky farmer is awaiting sentencing after pleading guilty to defrauding the federal crop insurance program of almost $1.5 Robert Thomas Hunt, of Taylor County in central Kentucky, asked grain haulers to sell his soybean, corn and wheat under …

Pleadings 63

Pleadings Insurance 63

The Marshall Project

JUNE 16, 2024

Jaleel Stallings was swept up in the chaos of protests over George Floyd’s murder. The outcome changed his life.

Pleadings 136

Pleadings 136

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 2, 2025

Today we are looking at a case where the judge rejected an argument that evidence could not be given because the particular issue had not been pleaded. The judge held that, on the facts of this case, the evidence was.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Evidence Witnesses 52

Civil Litigation Brief

MAY 29, 2025

I am not sure whether there are more cases about pleadings recently, or whether I am noticing them more having started this series. However issues relating to statements of case keep arising. Here we look at a case where the.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings 52

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 5, 2024

Three suspects pleaded guilty to insurance fraud in May and June after investigations by Washington Insurance Commissioner Mike Kreidler’s Criminal Investigations Unit. The fraud cases included a suspect from Qatar who had been on a most wanted list since 2013, …

Pleadings 64

Pleadings Insurance 64

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 18, 2024

I can’t think of any other case where this blog has featured a case that was decided prior to the introduction of the Civil Procedure Rules. However the judgment in Rigby v Decorating Den Systems Ltd [1999] EWCA Civ 986.

Pleadings 83

Pleadings 83

Civil Litigation Brief

MAY 9, 2025

Parties alleging dishonesty and fraud have to be very careful in the way they plead their case. These matters cannot be pleaded lightly, and there are professional obligations on the pleader to ensure that there is reasonably credible material that.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Evidence 52

Insurance Journal

MAY 22, 2025

A Massachusetts man has agreed to plead guilty to hacking cloud-based education software provider PowerSchool and stealing data pertaining to millions of students and teachers that hackers used to extort the company and school districts into paying ransoms. Matthew Lane, …

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Education 52

Civil Litigation Brief

JUNE 9, 2025

We are looking at a case where the court struck out the claimant's case against three defendants because of the inadequate way in which the case was pleaded. General assertions that someone here must be to blame were not sufficient.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Evidence 52

Insurance Journal

AUGUST 22, 2024

A scrap metal dealer with a Virginia shop pled guilty this week to theft and tax charges related to his participation in a multi-state catalytic converter theft conspiracy. According to court documents, Theodore Nicholas Papouloglou, 45, used his business, DG …

Pleadings 105

Pleadings 105

Insurance Journal

APRIL 15, 2025

A former Massachusetts State Police trooper has agreed to plead guilty to his role in an alleged conspiracy to falsify records by giving passing scores to certain commercial driver’s license (CDL) applicants even if they failed the CDL test or …

Pleadings 59

Pleadings 59

IP Watchdog

JANUARY 17, 2023

A recent policy change at the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) provides a lesson in how to properly draft a key requirement in a Section 337 complaint. The ITC is a popular forum for companies facing unfair competition from imported goods that infringe intellectual property rights.

Pleadings 119

Pleadings 119

Civil Litigation Brief

APRIL 3, 2025

This was a case alleging that the defendant barrister had pleaded a case badly. We are looking again at the judgment of Mr Justice Saini inIsrael Russell v Barry Coulter[2025] EWHC 493 (KB). The claim was rejected. However it is.

Pleadings 52

Pleadings Litigation Case Management Evidence 52

The 10b-5 Daily

APRIL 15, 2025

The district court held that the plaintiffs’ complaint did not contain any reliable sources and therefore failed to adequately plead the elements of a federal securities claim. On appeal, the Fourth Circuit only addressed the issue of loss causation.

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Rebuttal Pleadings Litigation 182