Insurance Company Alleges Fraud Scheme with Staged Accidents and Litigation‑Driven Medicine

Greater New York Mutual Insurance Company (“GNY”) recently filed a sweeping 207 page civil RICO complaint in the Eastern District of New York alleging a multi-layered insurance fraud enterprise involving personal injury law firms, medical providers, litigation funders, “runners” and claimants. According to the complaint, the defendants orchestrated a years long scheme designed to manufacture bodily injury claims, inflate case value through unnecessary medical procedures and pressure insurers... By: Harris Beach Murtha