June 20, 2022
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 …
April 18, 2022
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 …
April 5, 2017
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 …
September 13, 2016
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. …
February 1, 2016
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 …
February 4, 2015
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 …
January 8, 2015
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 …
January 22, 2014
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 …
November 21, 2013
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 …
November 1, 2013
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 …