South Florida Men Arrested For Insurance-Billing Fraud

On August 5, 2015, four South Florida men were arrested for their alleged involvement in insurance- billing fraud cases. According to The Florida Department of Financial Service’s Division of Insurance Fraud (DIF), they have been accused of orchestrating crashes and processing phony claims roughly totaling $145,000.

The first individual arrested was Nayef Casas Diaz, the owner of M&N Rehabilitation Center in Miami. According to DIF, Casas was charged for conspiring with bystanders to crash cars, call the police, and collect insurance money. There are suspicions that he paid the participants $1,000 each to receive treatment at M&N Rehab and another rehab facility.  The insurance company paid a total of $63,000.

The second and third individuals arrested Alexis A. Gonzalez and Erik A. Perez, directed an undercover state insurance-fraud agent to pose as a patient and sign documents for treatment that was never carried out. The undercover agent was given $1,000 compensation while the total arrangement produced over $11,000 in claims.

According to the State of Florida, the last offender, Vicente Ortiz Alpizar, was arrested for staging an accident resulting in over $70,000 in false claims. He is accused of receiving $1,500 from A&J Rehabilitation Center and D&J Rehabilitation Center in Miami, FL and received unnecessary treatments following these staged accidents.

Click here to read press release from the Florida Department of Financial Services.