While similar amateurish (and failed) attempts at insurance fraud might not engender outrage, it is a mistake to downplay the prevalence of staged accidents and fraudulent personal injury lawsuits. Indeed, staged accidents and fraudulent personal injury lawsuits are often the result of large-scale, organized criminal activity affecting many businesses and their insurance companies. Credit: Andrey_Popov/Shutterstock.com
Personal injury attorney George Constantine and orthopedic surgeon Andrew Dowd were convicted by a Manhattan federal jury late last year for knowingly profiting from a massive $31 million trip-and-fall accident scheme. Constantine reportedly filed nearly 250 fraudulent personal injury lawsuits, and Dowd performed hundreds of unnecessary knee and shoulder surgeries on patients referred to him through co-conspirators. In April of this year, U.S. District Court Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced Constantine and Dowd to 8 1/2 years in prison.
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