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Three Arrested for Staged Car Crash and False Insurance Claims

December 12, 2013

West Palm Beach Police arrested and charged three people in connection with a scheme to get insurance money after staging a fake traffic accident. According to a story on WPTV News Channel 5, the three accused of the alleged...

3rd DCA Denies Millennium Petition for Writ of Certiorari in Legal Title Dispute

December 11, 2013

State Farm issued a policy to Hery Alvarez, whose mother, Josefa Alvarez, was in an accident while a passenger in her son’s car. Hery Alvarez and Josefa Alvarez lived in the same household, and Josefa Alvarez sought...

Court Grants State Farm Motion in Terlep Chiropractic Case

December 9, 2013

Defendant State Farm’s insured, Mark Kundrat, was allegedly involved in a car accident on July 9, 2009. Kundrat sought treatment for injuries sustained in the accident from Plaintiff Terlep Chiropractic. On November 22,...

11th Circuit Court Grants State Farm’s Request to Depose Imaging Center Owner

December 5, 2013

Petitioner State Farm sought to depose Respondent YH Imaging’s owner, Yamir Hernandez, as well as other individuals who allegedly performed portable x-rays in this case. Respondent YH sought to have State Farm’s motion...

Flores Home Health Care Owners Sentenced in $8 Million Health Care Fraud Scheme

December 4, 2013

A married couple from Miami, who co-owned and operated the now-defunct Flores Home Health Care, was sentenced on December 2 for their involvement in an $8 million health care fraud scheme. Miguel Jimenez, 43, was sentenced to...

Motion for Rehearing of Florida PIP Injunction is Denied

November 26, 2013

On November 26, 2013, the First District Court of Appeals dismissed a motion for rehearing on its October ruling to reverse an injunction placed on reforms to Florida’s PIP system. The reforms, contained within HB 119 and...

MGA Insurance Granted Summary Judgment in PIP Staged Accident Case

November 22, 2013

In an August 15, 2013 decision in Miami-Dade County Court, Defendant MGA Insurance Co. was granted Summary Judgment against Plaintiff Febre’s Medical Center on the grounds that no genuine issue of material fact existed, and...

Mobile X-Rays Lead to Summary Judgment in Milo v. State Farm

November 15, 2013

Plaintiff Milo Diagnostic Center filed suit against Defendant State Farm to recover PIP benefits for mobile x-rays provided to Pedro Barreto, a State Farm insured. According to Florida PIP Statute Section 627.732(2) (2006),...

UAIC v. Atlantic Medical Specialty

November 13, 2013

Atlantic Medical Specialty (Atlantic) provided treatment to Manuel Floyd, an individual insured by United Auto, following a November 19, 2007 automobile accident. Atlantic subsequently filed a PIP claim with United Auto,...

Miami Court Rules on Reasonable and Unreasonable Charges

November 6, 2013

In an October 8, 2013 ruling in the matter New Medical Group, Inc. vs. United Automobile Insurance Company by Judge King in the County Court of Miami-Dade County, the court held that an insurer is not required to expressly...

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