State Farm:  Fraud Defendants’ Arguments For Dismissal Are Premature

Mealey's (March 18, 2020, 1:53 PM EDT) -- NEW YORK — State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. and State Farm Fire & Casualty Co.  argue in a March 13 brief filed in federal court in New York that arguments from defendants seeking dismissal of the insurers’ lawsuit accusing them of submitting false claims for treatment under the state’s no-fault law are premature because they are fact-intensive and based on affidavits that were submitted along with the defendants’ motions to dismiss (State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co., et al. v. Francoise Jules Parisien M.D., et al., No. 18-cv-00289-ILG-ST, E.D. N.Y.)....