Allstate Files $796K Insurance Fraud Case in NY

Allstate Insurance

is seeking to recover more than $796,000 from eighteen New York-area defendants. The complaint, filed in Federal District Court as a Declaratory Judgment/Recovery action, alleges that two medical doctors, along with four laypersons and five lay entities illegally owned and controlled two professional medical corporations allegedly owned on paper by a medical doctor and used them to submit fraudulent billing to Allstate. In addition, two other individuals and three other companies were also named as being part of the overall scheme to submit fraudulent bills to Allstate. Since 2003, Allstate has filed thirty-nine fraud lawsuits in New York, seeking nearly $204 million dollars in damages.