[tag]UnitedHealthcare[/tag], a unit of UnitedHealth Group Inc., and two affiliates have been fined $600,000 for failing to properly respond to consumer complaints, no paying certain benefits, and violations of other insurance regulations. The settlement was reached between the company and […]

Homeowners hit by [tag]Hurricane Katrina[/tag] are suing [tag]Nationwide Insurance[/tag] to try to force the company to pay out billions of dollars to pay for [tag]flood damage[/tag] that was not covered by their insurance policies. Richard F. Scruggs, the Pascagoula attorney […]

[tag]Microsoft[/tag] Corp. was fined $357 million today by the [tag]European Union[/tag] for disobeying the 2004 [tag]antitrust[/tag] order to share program code with competitors. Additional fines of $3.82 million per day could be assessed beginning July 31 if the company fails […]

The ACFE’s 2006 [tag]Report to the Nation[/tag] on [tag]Occupational Fraud[/tag] and Abuse has arrived! Get your free download at the ACFE’s website. Read my related post on the report about on-the-job fraud.

A rule in U.S. law called “[tag]abatement ab initio[/tag]” means that [tag]Kenneth Lay[/tag] will have his [tag]conviction[/tag] on [tag]federal charges[/tag] related to the [tag]Enron[/tag] [tag]fraud[/tag] wiped out. A defendant who dies before having the opportunity to [tag]appeal[/tag] the conviction has […]

According to the Wall Street Journal, the demand for [tag]disaster insurance[/tag] far exceeds the current available supply, and this is affecting our entire economy. Companies and individuals are quickly buying disaster insurance, and the insurance companies themselves are scrambling to […]

I ran across an interesting post about splog software. What’s splog software, you say? Basically, it’s software that creates spam blogs, or splogs. The splogs are used to link to other sites, so that those other sites can increase their […]

Tonight on Windfall on NBC, and I quote: “I’m a P.I., not a [tag]forensic accountant[/tag].” Oh, yeah!

I ran across an interesting post yesterday from fellow blogger James Durbin. He’s identified a blog that he thinks is suspect, and suggests that this fake blog may be nothing more than an attempt by the owner of PayPerPost.com to […]

In a conference call Wednesday, the chairman of the board and interim principal executive officer of [tag]Merge[/tag] Technologies said that the company is making every effort to meet [tag]regulatory requirements[/tag] related to the company’s [tag]financial statements[/tag]. An independent [tag]investigation[/tag] into […]