Partial Default Judgment Recommended In Insurer’s No-Fault Insurance Dispute

Mealey's (January 21, 2022, 12:08 PM EST) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — Government Employees Insurance Co. (GEICO) and certain of its related entities have sufficiently pleaded each of the elements of their common-law fraud claim against a physician and several of her New York- and New Jersey-based practices in a lawsuit alleging that the defendants fraudulently billed GEICO for claims under New York’s no-fault insurance statute for claims to which they were not entitled, a federal magistrate judge in New York ruled Jan. 19 in recommending that the insurer’s motion for default judgment be granted....