ZIFL – Volume 28 Number 20

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The Source for the Insurance Fraud Professional

Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter (ZIFL) continues its 28th year of publication dedicated to those involved in reducing the effect of insurance fraud. ZIFL is published 24 times a year by ClaimSchool and is written by Barry Zalma. It is provided FREE to anyone who visits the site at http://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/ This issue contains the following articles about insurance fraud:

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Intentionally Presenting a False Claim is a Crime

Insurance Fraud Exists at the Time the False Claim is Made Not Payment of the False Claim

A Knox County, Tennessee jury convicted John M. Fletcher of initiating a false report to a law enforcement officer and presenting a false or fraudulent insurance claim. The trial court imposed an effective sentence of four years.

In State Of Tennessee v. John M. Fletcher, No. E2022-01319-CCA-R3-CD, Court of Criminal Appeals of Tennessee, Knoxville (September 24, 2024) the court of appeals disposed of the false report to a law enforcement officer and dealt with the Insurance Fraud charge.

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More McClenny Moseley & Associates Issues

This is ZIFL’s thirty sixth installment of the saga of McClenny, Moseley & Associates and its problems with the federal courts in the State of Louisiana and what appears to be an effort to profit from what some Magistrate and District judges indicate may be criminal conduct to profit from insurance claims relating to hurricane damage to the public of the state of Louisiana.

Equal Access Justice Fund and EAJF Fund, LP (collectively, “EAJF”) a few months ago asked the Bankruptcy court to appoint a Chapter 11 trustee for MMA’s estate. The funds accuse MMA founder Zach Moseley of “fraud, dishonesty, incompetence, and gross mismanagement.”

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Gangs Involved in Fraud & Murder

Gang Defendants Present Multiple Motions to Avoid or Delay Trial for Covid-19 Fraud & Murder for Hire

In United States Of America v. Ronnell Bowman and Ronnie Jackson, Nos. 23-CR-77-1-JPS, 23-CR-77-15-JPS, United States District Court, E.D. Wisconsin (October 7, 2024) Defendants Ronnell Bowman (“Bowman”) and Ronnie Jackson (“Jackson”) (together, “Defendants”) who were charged with conspiracy to commit murder for hire and using a firearm during the commission of that offense, with participating in a conspiracy to possess, sell, or transfer firearms in various illegal ways and charged with both substantive mail fraud and mail fraud conspiracy.

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Chutzpah: Fraud Perpetrator Tries to Use Court to Avoid Paying Judgment

FRAUD JUDGMENT FOR $45,657,401.01 AGAINST FRAUDSTER SEEKS BANKRUPTCY PROTECTION

Court Refuses to Allow Procedural Rules To Enable Fraud Perpetrator Lupolover To Manipulate the Federal Court to Avoid Paying The Judgment

Before the USDC, ED, New York was the motion of Non-Debtor Respondents Michael Lupolover and NJTM Ventures, LLC seeking reconsideration of the Court’s July 29, 2024 Order establishing a temporary restraining order (TRO).

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Health Insurance Fraud Convictions

Magellan Diagnostics Sentenced for Concealing Malfunction in Lead Testing Devices

Magellan Diagnostics, Inc., a medical device company headquartered in Billerica, Mass., was sentenced October 9, 2024 in federal court in Boston for criminal charges related to the concealment of a device malfunction that produced inaccurately low lead test results for tens of thousands of children and other patients.

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Convictions of Other Than Health Insurance Fraud

SoCal Residents Providing Legal Representation Without License Arrested By Task Force

Defendants Filed Claims For Clients Including Property Damage Claims After Saddleridge Fire In Los Angeles

Pedram Sharokhi, 43, of Porter Ranch, also known as Peter Shah and Peter Sharokhi, was practicing law associated with personal injury claims without a proper license. Sharokhi also filed several property damage/smoke and ash claims on behalf the claimants, after the Saddleridge Fire.

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The Effect of the Tort of Bad Faith

It seemed to the California Courts that it was indisputable that in the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s the insurance industry abused some insureds to avoid paying legitimate claims. Without a factual basis, insureds were accused of arson or other variations on insurance fraud. Indemnity payments were refused on the flimsiest of excuses. People were found to have diseases that only horses could catch. Disability payments were refused because an insured was wheeled in her wheelchair to church one day and, therefore, was not totally house-confined. Insureds were driven into bankruptcy when reasonable demands within policy limits were refused.

In my opinion the tort of bad faith has exceeded its need and needs to be removed from American jurisprudence.

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