“Operation Crash Clinic” Results in 15 Arrests; 3 Clinics Shutdown

Numerous Florida residents from the Miami area have been arrested for taking part in “Operation Crash Clinic,” which is one of many similar insurance fraud scams that is partly responsible for Florida’s high car insurance premiums. According to CBS News, a news conference was held on April 26th...

April 27th, 2012 | 1, Rings & Mills | Read More

14 Nabbed in Miami Massage Clinic Sting

Over a dozen Miami area clinic workers and their patients have been arrested and charged with insurance fraud and grand theft. According to The Miami Herald and Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, a licensed massage therapist, a physician’s assistant and 14 of the massage clinic patients were...

April 25th, 2012 | Rings & Mills, s | Read More

Florida PIP Fraud Ring Taken Down

Yet another fraud ring has been disbanded in Florida; this time in Lee County. The individuals listed in the indictments were charged with numerous crimes, including health care fraud, mail fraud, money laundering, and conspiracy to commit both health care fraud, mail fraud, and money laundering. According...

March 23rd, 2012 | Rings & Mills | Read More

Three FL Clinic Employees Arrested for PIP Fraud

March 6th was the last day of work for three Florida clinic employees –from CPS Medical Clinic, who were arrested and charged with insurance fraud and patient brokering for their roles in connection with a personal injury protection (PIP) fraud scheme. According to the press release from Florida Chief...

March 8th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

9 More Doctors Named in No-Fault Insurance Scam

Along with the arrest of Dr. Joseph Vitoulis –the subject of our previous story, several new names are coming out in connection with what is being called “the largest single no-fault automobile insurance fraud ever charged.” In total, ten doctors were arrested, including Dr. Vitoulis, but...

March 5th, 2012 | Insurance Fraud | Read More

Tampa Clinics: Nine Arrested in Sting Operations

Nine Floridians who work at accident clinics have been arrested for asking undercover agents to pose as “victims” and sign fraudulent forms. According to the Tampa Bay Business Journal and the Chief Financial Advisor of Florida, Jeff Atwater, the nine employees from accident clinics were arrested...

February 27th, 2012 | 2, Insurance Fraud | Read More

90% of Dade County PIP Clinics Probed Deemed to have “Irregularities”

Everyone should be able to assume that there are many decent clinics in Miami-Dade County that treat automobile accident victims. What you might not know however, is that state investigators are considering criminal charges after they found regulatory violations in almost 90% of the clinics that were...

January 11th, 2012 | 3, Insurance Fraud | Read More

FBI Has Questions for 1-800-ASK-GARY

Many of us have heard of 1-800-ASK-GARY; but who has ever actually called it? After a car accident in Clearwater, Florida, Kathleen Weston did; but that turned out to be a move that she most likely regrets. After a Jeep crashed into her Geo Metro back in 2009, Weston’s back and neck hurt, which led...

November 14th, 2011 | Scandalous Schemes, s | Read More

24 New Yorkers Charged in Fraudulent Billing Scam

Two dozen New Yorkers are in serious trouble with the law, stemming from 3 separate indictments for health care fraud. Twenty-two of those defendants are charged with participating in fraudulent billing scams that forced no-fault insurance carriers to dole out millions of dollars in reimbursements for...

October 25th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

Commerce Insurance Awarded Over $8.1 Million

Commerce Insurance Company has many more millions of dollars in its bank account now, courtesy of the Boston Superior Court and a disgraceful chiropractor and his clinics. According to a MarketWatch.com press release, Judge John Cratsley ordered the defendants, Jason Corbett and his chiropractic clinics,...

September 29th, 2011 | Insurance Fraud, s | Read More

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