FL Gains 26 Arrests in Operation Sledgehammer

When I think of sledgehammers, I tend to think of Thor; but for authorities in Palm Beach and Miami-Dade counties, they might think of staged automobile accidents. “Operation Sledgehammer,” the multi-agency investigation that has been three years in the making, resulted in the arrests of 26 people...

May 20th, 2013 | Staged Accidents | Read More

South FL Chiropractor Arrested for Fraud

It sounds like a story we normally write, but this time it’s much closer to home. Taking place in our own backyard, a Fort Myers chiropractor was arrested last week for paying patients to fake injuries after car crashes; all so he could rip off insurance companies. According to investigators and NBC...

May 20th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Another TX Chiro Pleads Guilty for $3M Scam

Back in January we told you about the unraveling of Lindsey Chiropractic Care, along with its co-owner, due to involvement in a conspiracy to defraud several automobile insurance companies of more than $3 million. Now, another person, 42 year-old Marion Young, who co-owned Private Chiropractic Care,...

May 2nd, 2013 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

TX Chiropractor Pleads Guilty in $3M Insurance Scam

A Texas chiropractor –who co-owns Lindsey Chiropractic Care in Bryan,Texas–is looking at up to 30 years in federal prison after he pled guilty for his part in a $3 million auto insurance fraud scheme. According to Courthouse News and the Justice Department, Chase Lindsey, 34, pled guilty on January...

January 24th, 2013 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

2 FL Men Found Guilty in “Operation Whiplash”

Back in March we brought you (one of many) stories of a PIP fraud ring that was disbanded. Two of the participants in that ring have now been found guilty and are scheduled to be sentenced on March 11, 2013. You can read that article by clicking here. According to WINK News, a federal jury found Francisco...

December 19th, 2012 | Rings & Mills | Read More

Workers’ Comp Fraud a Family Affair for OH Brothers

A pair of brothers has come under a lot of scrutiny recently for fraud. Most recently it was David Esarco, a chiropractor who has been accused of defrauding the Bureau of Worker’s Compensation (BWC) and his insurance company. He pled guilty to a fifth-degree felony count of fraud for billing the BWC...

December 14th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

NJ Chiropractor Admits to Fraud

On October 24th, a chiropractor based out of Paterson admitted in state court that he helped defraud insurance companies when he created a chiropractic center while his doctor’s license was suspended, and used that facility to file several bogus claims to PIP carriers. According to NorthJersey.com,...

October 25th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

“Operation Running Man” Claims Another

Do the names Marc Kirshner or Jennifer Netter ring a bell? How about Operation Running Man? If you’ve been keeping up with his blog all those names might ring a bell. George U. DeCarvalho, 56, is now the fourth chiropractor –and the sixth health care provider in total, to plead guilty in what the...

July 10th, 2012 | Rings & Mills | Read More

Man Poses as Chiropractor, Pleads Guilty to 101 Counts

In all meanings of the word “normal”, the Oasis Holistic Healing Village looked as normal as a chiropractor’s office in a former mansion could. On the inside however, it was a house of lies. Behind the extravagant stone facade, the man inside wearing the scrubs was not a chiropractor at...

June 27th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

CA Doctor, 6 others Indicted on Fraud Conspiracy

A California chiropractor and one of his office workers have pleaded not guilty to 21 felony counts that stem from an insurance fraud scheme. Those counts range from conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, insurance fraud against the workers’ compensation insurance system, conspiring to commit a...

June 13th, 2012 | Rings & Mills, s | Read More

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