After four people were charged with insurance fraud for staging fake bear attacks with a bear costume, officials Thursday shared more details behind how they were able to bust the suspects.

On Wednesday, after concluding an investigation it called Operation Bear Claw, the department said it had determined that the bear was not, in fact, a bear. “Upon further scrutiny of the video ...

The California Department of Insurance teamed up with San Bernardino County authorities to lead “Operation Bear Claw,” which determined that the four people attempted to defraud insurance ...

Initiating an investigation -- named Operation Bear Claw -- the department learned that two other claims had been filed to different insurance companies with similar details: the same location and ...

Then they noticed the woman's arm jutting out of a pile of leaves and sticks, bloodied with bear claw wounds. The woman was "alive and conscious" despite serious injuries. Her first question was ...

only to find a bear's head in the hole of the toilet. Ms Stevens says the wound was caused by either a bite or a swipe from the animal's claw. She was spending the weekend in a yurt with her ...

The investigation, which was dubbed "Operation Bear Claw," found that three of the four individuals submitted similar insurance claims after a so-called bear wrecked the interior of their cars in ...

According to the California Department of Insurance (CDI), police arrested four people for alleged insurance fraud in what it calls Operation Bear Claw. The case kicked off when the suspects ...

In what’s dubbed “Operation Bear Claw,” the California Insurance Department said four Los Angeles residents were arrested Wednesday, accused of defrauding three insurance companies out of ...