An insured claiming his auto insurer’s delay in approving treatment caused his injuries to worsen is entitled to prove his breach of contract claim despite New Jersey’s no-fault law. That law governing personal injury protection benefits provides an exclusive remedy …
Two physical therapists and five other Miami people were arrested last week and charged with running an extensive auto insurance fraud ring, staging accidents and billing insurers as much as $161,000. Florida’s Department of Financial Services said that investigators had …
Minnesota Commerce Commissioner Mike Rothman announced that an additional Twin Cities area chiropractor has been indicted on federal criminal charges in connection with an ongoing investigation of large-scale health care fraud related to “no-fault” auto insurance. Timothy Wayne Guthman, age …
A dozen states still use no-fault auto insurance to cover the medical expenses of crash victims. Michigan House members returned to work last week to decide whether they’ll give the state’s motorists a break on their highest-in-the-nation auto insurance premiums. …
A Long Island, New York, man was sentenced to 15 years in prison for a $35 million fraud that a judge said wrecked investors’ lives. Mikhail Zemlyansky, 39, was led out of a Manhattan courtroom Thursday, Jan. 28, in shackles …
A new study estimates that fraud and claim “build-up” add between $5.6 billion and $7.7 billion in excess payments to auto injury claims paid in the United States. The excess payments represented between 13 percent and 17 percent of total …
Los Angeles-based Farmers Insurance Group announced that Farmers Insurance Exchange, one of the insurers comprising Farmers Insurance Group, and affiliates have filed a lawsuit in the state Supreme Court of New York against more than six New York no-fault medical …
Insurance associations are applauding New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s proposal for a multi-pronged approach to combating auto insurance fraud. The initiative was outlined in the 2014–2015 executive budget proposal released Tuesday. The executive budget briefing book describes proposals under the …
A Long Island, N.Y., doctor has been acquitted of participating in a $275 million scheme to defraud no-fault auto insurers. Joseph Vitoulis had been accused of acting as the straw owner of a medical clinic. He allegedly ordered phony treatments …
New York officials have banned 12 doctors and six therapists from billing the state’s no-fault auto insurance system in an initiative to crack down on fraudulent medical mills costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Insurance regulators say their investigation showed …
