WALMART RIPOFF GIFT CARD

• Growing gift card scam hits Walmart, Target, and CVS - TheStreet
• Top Walmart Scams: Online Walmart Shoppers Beware - All About Cookies
• 2 Mississauga residents charged in southern Ontario gift card scam - CP24
• Chinese National Convicted In Albany For Laundering $2.2 Million Through Walmart Gift Cards - 101.5 WPDH
• Man charged in alleged gift card fraud scheme at Warrington Walmart - Central Bucks Now
• Americans warned of new gift-card scam targeting holiday shoppers - TheStreet
• Watch out for Walmart gift card scams - Malwarebytes
• Buying a gift card? Be aware of scams that drain the card of funds before you can use it | CBC News - CBC
• Did scammers steal your gift cards? You could get your money back - NBC Boston
• Watch out for Gift Card Scams - AARP
• Chinese national jailed for Apple gift card draining scam in Pittsburgh - CBS News
• The Nation’s First Law Protecting Against Gift Card Draining Has Passed. Will It Work? - ProPublica
• Retailers can't keep scammers away from their favorite payment form: gift cards - Axios
• Man from China sentenced on 300 charges in Ohio Walmart gift card scam - NBC4 WCMH-TV
• Chinese Organized Crime’s Latest U.S. Target: Gift Cards - ProPublica
• Four charged in Walmart gift card crime ring, leader caught with nearly 7,000 cards in Tarrant County, police say - WFAA
• How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet - ProPublica
• Walmart’s Redemption Program Catches Fraud Before it Happens - PaymentsJournal
• How Walmart is fighting back against gift card scams - Fox Business
• If you paid a scammer with a gift card, is your money gone? Maybe not - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• The Walmart Gift Card Class Action Form Asks for Your Social Security Number — Is It a Scam? - Yahoo Finance
• Walmart gift card $4 million settlement: Who qualifies and how do you apply? - AL.com
• How do scammers rip off Walmart gift card holders? Fraud prevention techniques - Diario AS
• How do I know if my Walmart Gift card has been scammed? - Diario AS
• Scammers are tricking more people into buying gift cards - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• Buyer Beware: New scam involves fraudulent Walmart gift cards in Palm Beach County - WPEC
• B.C. man shocked after $700 drained from his Walmart gift cards - CBC
• How Walmart thwarted $4 million in elder gift card scams - CNBC
• Walmart gift card scam ring allegedly steals $600K from Utah seniors - Fox Business
• Chinese National student arrested for million-dollar Walmart gift card scam - FOX43
• Walmart, Target, Best Buy take steps to curb gift card fraud - Yahoo Finance

• Peoria police arrest 6 for $1.4M Walmart credit card fraud scheme - 12News
• 6 arrested in $1.4M Walmart fraud scheme shipping goods from Peoria to Vietnam - AZ Family
• FTC Sends More than $9.8 Million to Consumers Harmed by Walmart’s Failure to Stop Scammers that Used its Wire Transfer Services to Take Millions from Customers - Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• Growing gift card scam hits Walmart, Target, and CVS - TheStreet
• Hacked Walmart account leads to $2,000 loss for customer - WFTV
• A nationwide phone scam uses an AI-generated voice to falsely claim a $900 Walmart purchase - WGAL
• Donation for a college tour turned out to be a $1,000 tap-to-pay scam - Detroit Free Press
• Top Walmart Scams: Online Walmart Shoppers Beware - All About Cookies
• A Walmart ‘robocall scam’ sweeping the nation, warns FCC. How fake employees will try to get you to give up your info - Yahoo Finance
• Walmart impersonation scam targets hundreds of thousands of consumers each week - CBS News
• Millions of Walmart customers victims of major scam - TheStreet
• Watch out for Walmart gift card scams - Malwarebytes
• Walmart’s Marketplace boom: How lax vetting came with identity theft and fakes - CNBC
• 8 retail fraud schemes every business should watch for - National Retail Federation | NRF
• Got a package you didn’t order? It’s probably a scam - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• New York men sentenced in Raleigh Dark Web plot defrauding Lululemon, Target and others - Raleigh News & Observer
• Walmart Bought a Finance App and Reduced Fraud Protections. Guess What Happened Next? - ProPublica
• How Walmart’s Financial Services Became a Fraud Magnet - ProPublica
• Walmart’s Redemption Program Catches Fraud Before it Happens - PaymentsJournal
• How Walmart is fighting back against gift card scams - Fox Business
• If you paid a scammer with a gift card, is your money gone? Maybe not - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• FTC says Walmart allowed fraud involving money transfers - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• How Walmart thwarted $4 million in elder gift card scams - CNBC
• Walmart, Target, Best Buy take steps to curb gift card fraud - Yahoo Finance
• Feds on hunt for 8 gangsters in multimillion-dollar Walmart scam - WZZM13.com
• Consumer Warning: Watch Your Bank Account For Small Fraudulent Charges At Walmart - KELOLAND.com
• Postcard scam offers Walmart, Target payoff - MPR News
• Phishing Scam Targets Walmart.com Online Customers - McAfee

MEDICAL INSURANCE FRAUD

• Blackburn Launches Tennessee DOGE to Cut Waste and Fraud - AMAC — The Association of Mature American Citizens
• The FTC Is Warning Medicare Recipients About a Threat Hiding in Plain Sight - AOL.com
• Opinion: Health insurance fraud is expensive — we all pay fo... - The Wake Weekly
• Federal Investigation Mounts: Did Ilhan Omar Commit Immigration Fraud? - AMAC — The Association of Mature American Citizens
• Fake Robberies for Visas: Shocking Immigration Scam Finally Uncovered - AMAC — The Association of Mature American Citizens
• Buying a flood insurance policy just got a little easier - The Avery Journal-Times
• US Justice Department moves to join $1.8 bn Planned Parenthood Medicaid fraud lawsuit - Beinsure
• Open enrollment brings robocalls, scams targeting health care plan seekers - WAFB
• Stroke survivors get a first-of-its-kind anticoagulant; Queens day care director admits $127M Medicare, Medicaid fraud; ovarian cancer may leave an early mark in the blood — Morning Medical Update - Medical Economics
• Pennsylvania launches Medicare fraud hotline ahead of open enrollment deadline - The News-Item
• PA Department of Aging debuts Medicare fraud hotline - ABC27
• New Medicare Fraud Hotline to Help Pennsylvanians Report Fraud and Protect Benefits - PennWatch
• Lab company Quest pays $13 million to settle Medicare fraud lawsuit - NY Daily Record
• Things can change: Review your coverage options - chronicleonline.com
• Lab company Quest pays $13 million to settle Medicare fraud lawsuit - Bergen Record
• Iowa Insurance Division warns of Medicare scams targeting older Iowans - ThePerryNews
• Feds charge 15 suspects in multiple alleged insurance, Medicare fraud schemes - ABC News - Breaking News, Latest News and Videos
• Durable Medical Equipment: Protecting Medicare and Medicaid from Fraud, Waste, and Abuse - Office of Inspector General (.gov)
• The $3.7bn man: Inside one of US’s biggest Medicare frauds - Al Jazeera
• CMS Potentially Overpaid Medicare Advantage Organizations $462 Million Based on Certain Unsupported Acute Stroke Diagnosis Codes - Office of Inspector General (.gov)
• Kaiser affiliates to pay $556M to resolve Medicare Advantage fraud allegations - Healthcare Dive
• Medicare Program Integrity and Efforts to Root Out Improper Payments, Fraud, Waste and Abuse - KFF
• ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions (Published 2022) - The New York Times
• Spot Health Insurance Scams - Consumer Advice | Federal Trade Commission (.gov)
• Medicare Fraud Strike Force - Office of Inspector General (.gov)

BAD FAITH INSURANCE

• Travel insurer acted in bad faith over sick traveller’s flight home, IFSO finds - Insurance Business
• Nationwide’s $47M punitive award wiped - bad faith finding stands - Insurance Business
• Jail guard’s bad-faith claim over $106K benefits clawback lands outside board’s reach - HR Law Canada
• A Washington mother lost her three children in a 2017 crash, then her husband had to sue her after an ins - The Times of India
• $55K policy, $10M lawsuit, 1.5-page dismissal: hunting camp fire claim goes up in smoke - Insurance Business
• When her husband died of Covid, an Omaha mother of 10 was told his $350,000 life insurance would not pay - The Times of India
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, October 2026 - Dykema
• Insurer Bad Faith Is Not Limited to Claim Denials- Georgia Court of Appeals Affirms $12 Million Verdict for Reputational Harm to Healthcare Provider - The National Law Review
• California Supreme Court changes the playbook for excess insurance claims - Kennedys Law LLP
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, July 2026 - Dykema
• An Empire-Sized Win for Policyholders: New York Bad Faith Extends Beyond First-Party Coverage - Hunton Andrews Kurth LLP
• Buchanan Litigation Team Secures Complete Defense Verdict in an Insurance Bad Faith Action - Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC
• Old Republic sues James River again over alleged bad faith denials - Insurance Business
• Red flags for consumers facing insurance bad faith claims - KING5.com
• Judge Must Review Documents in Insurance Dispute Before Releasing Them - Ohio Court News (.gov)
• Allegation of Bad Faith Insurance Claim Must Go to Arbitration - Ohio Court News (.gov)
• Wisconsin Recognizes Claim for Bad Faith Failure to Settle Within Insured’s Deductible Where Verdict Was Within Policy Limits - Hinshaw & Culbertson LLP
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, July 2025 - Dykema
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, April 2025 - Dykema
• USAA hit with $114 Million decision over bad faith - Insurance Business
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, January 2025 - Dykema
• William Shernoff marks 50 years as father of bad faith insurance law - Daily Journal
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, October 2023 - Dykema
• Why Are Insurance Companies Telling Doctors How to Practice Medicine? - Sokolove Law
• Insurance Bad Faith Report, April 2023 - Dykema
• An insurance company’s refusal to settle can be bad faith, even if the policyholder ultimately prevails at trial - Reed Smith LLP
• COMMENTARY: Bad faith claims against insurers on the rise; how they can remain in good graces - Reuters
• 101 Recognizing Insurance Bad Faith: When Insurers Don´t ´Insure´ - Wisbar.org
• Massachusetts Appeals Court Affirms $2,077,342 Bad Faith Insurance Judgment - Kreindler
• Practical primer on the dreaded world of “bad faith” in the insurance industry - Dentons
• Insurance Bad Faith Under Puerto Rico Law - JD Supra
• Understanding Bad Faith Insurance: Identifying and Combating Unfair Practices - Investopedia
• Florida Insurance Bad Faith Law: Protecting Businesses and You - The Florida Bar

• Canadian cheese was on the precipice — then tariffs hit - Pique Newsmagazine
• Trump’s Trade War and Jensen Huang’s Honey Trap - emptywheel
• U.S. spoke with Canada about trade deal in past few days, USTR says - CTV News
• China-EU relations need cooperation, not pressure - Global Times
• Trump threatens to double tariffs on Mexico if it does not halt migrants - BNN Bloomberg
• Carney: Trump still calls shots on trade - Money.ca
• Craft beer makers strain on both sides of US-Canada trade clash - The Business Times
• Carney set to sign two Asian trade deals on nine-day, four-summit trip that tests his middle-power pitch - Toronto Star
• Trump, Putin among world leaders heading to Asia for talks on trade, AI, security - Geo News
• China trade surplus on track for new record as tensions with EU grow - World Socialist Web Site
• Trump's Nvidia Chip Smuggling Crackdown Stalled Three Times as Lutnick Warns of China Trade War - Hokanews
• Cost of baby formula at all-time high amid US trade war with Canada - NBC 5 Chicago
• Textile maker eyes U.S. amid trade uncertainty - Yahoo News Canada
• Canadian manufacturer eyes U.S. as firms 'cannot hold off for too long anymore' - Yahoo! Finance Canada
• ‘Severe strain with our strongest trading partner’: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer sounds the alarm on the Canada trade war - Money.ca
• Canadian textile maker battered by tariffs eyes production in the U.S. - BNN Bloomberg
• Without US action on China’s innovation blitz, biotech leaders see a Rust Belt future - BioSpace
• Go inside the cheese factories impacted by US-Canada tariffs - USA Today
• 🇺🇸🇨🇳 Could Jensen Huang's scandal trigger a devastating new trade war with China, and BURST America's AI bubble? Economist Philip Pilkington warns that powerful forces inside Washington are pushing America towards an economic confrontation that c - X
• Milwaukee mayor says Carney 'escalated' Trump’s trade war - Toronto Sun
• BIO pitches US plan to beat China in biotech ‘space race’ - BioSpace
• Amid trade war, union says Stellantis has sold Canadian assembly plant - Detroit Free Press
• From trade-war chip to U.S. Navy shipbuilder - upi
• US, China officially extend trade war truce by 2 months - Supply Chain Dive
• Could the blue wave change Trump's tune with Canada? | Opinion - Akron Beacon Journal
• Trade war update - Varsity
• Europe and China pull back from a trade war for now - Gulf News
• Canada’s unlikely trade war influencer fighting for the little guys - CBC
• Are Canadian snowbirds flocking back during the U.S. trade war? Here’s what data says - CTV News
• How Canada Inflicted Maximum Midterms Pain on Trump - Politico
• The US-China trade war seems to have subsided – but the sense of calm is misleading - The Guardian
• The Abject Failure of the US–Canada Trade War - Intereconomics | Review of European Economic Policy
• How the trade war with Canada is hitting US states—and could sway midterm elections - Atlantic Council
• Trump's Canada trade war is entering a dangerous new phase for these battleground states - Fox Business
• US ban on Canadian alcohol and dairy takes effect as trade war drags on - BBC
• Attention, protein-maxxers: Trump’s trade war is coming for your whey | CNN Business - CNN
• ‘It’s just getting worse’: anger in Maine over Trump’s trade war with close neighbor Canada - The Guardian
• As Xi meets Trump, who’s winning their trade war? - Al Jazeera
• Poll: Canadians and Americans agree, Trump was in the wrong with trade war - Politico
• Canada took the trade war to Trump’s backyard. Americans didn’t care - National - Global News
• The Fallout of the U.S.–Canada Trade War Won’t Be Limited to North America - Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
• US to ban Canadian motorcycle, dairy, alcohol imports as trade war sizzles - Reuters
• Carney says US trade war 'will come at a cost' as Canada strikes back on tariffs - BBC
• What to know about Canada's escalating trade war with the U.S. - NPR
• Why Trump's trade war with Canada is poised to drag past the midterms - Politico
• The US-Canada trade war in 5 charts - BBC
• Detroit despairs as ‘insanity’ of Trump’s Canada trade war punishes city | Trump tariffs - The Guardian
• Wiped out: US faces surging toilet paper prices amid trade war with Canada | Trump tariffs - The Guardian
• US-Canada animosity could impede an end to a trade war neither country wants - AP News
• U.S.-Canada Trade War: What to Know About Tariffs and the Negotiations - The New York Times
• From ‘Fortress North America’ to All-Out Trade War: How the U.S.-Canada Talks Collapsed - The New York Times
• Canada strikes back at US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates - AP News
• Canada Retaliates With Up to 50% Tariffs on Hundreds of U.S. Products - The New York Times
• Canada has 1 important edge in the North American trade war - Politico
• US and Canada fall deeper into a trade war with new tariffs as talks collapse and blame is spread - AP News
• Trump says U.S. will hike Canada auto tariffs to 50% as trade war escalates - CNBC
• Canada to hit US with retaliatory tariffs as trade war escalates - Al Jazeera
• ‘No more!!!’: Trump lashes out after US-Canada talks devolve into trade war - The Guardian
• Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War Revisited - WSJ
• US-China Trade War Tariffs: An Up-to-Date Chart - Peterson Institute for International Economics
• U.S. Economy Could Feel the Sting From Trade War With Canada - The New York Times
• Carney Stands Up to Trump in Trade War Despite the Risks - The New York Times
• Tracking the Impact of the Trump Tariffs & Trade War - Tax Foundation
• The U.S.-China Trade Relationship: What’s Behind the Competition? - Council on Foreign Relations
• The Trump-China trade wars: Five takeaways from US imports in 2025 - Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Major developments in Trump's trade war - Reuters
• Why China is winning the trade war - The Economist
• When a Trade War Becomes a Food Fight - CSIS | Center for Strategic and International Studies
• Trump's trade war with China in 2025 - Reuters
• After the Trade War: Remaking Rules From the Ruins of the Rules-Based System - Foreign Affairs
• Trump tariffs sow fears of trade wars, recession and a $2,300 iPhone - Reuters
• Trump’s tariffs have launched global trade wars. Here’s a timeline of how we got here - AP News
• Trump triggers trade war, price hikes with tariffs on Canada, China and Mexico - Reuters
• Trump's trade war timeline 2.0: An up-to-date guide - Peterson Institute for International Economics
• Opinion | The Dumbest Trade War in History - WSJ
• What Is a Trade War? History, Tariffs, & Impact - Britannica
• Trump’s Trade War Timeline: An Up-to-Date Guide - Peterson Institute for International Economics
• More pain than gain: How the US-China trade war hurt America - Brookings
• A quick guide to the US-China trade war - BBC
• A quick guide to the US-China trade war - BBC
• Trade Wars - Overview, Impacts, Good or Bad - Corporate Finance Institute
• Trade wars, Trump tariffs and protectionism explained - BBC
• The US-China Trade War: A Timeline - China Briefing
• Trump’s Trade War With China Is Officially Underway (Published 2018) - The New York Times
• Trade Wars Explained: History, Benefits, and U.S.-China Example - Investopedia