Magistrate Recommends Granting Default Motion As To Fraud Claims In No-Fault Suit

(September 18, 2023, 12:59 PM EDT) -- BROOKLYN, N.Y. — A New York federal magistrate judge issued a report recommending granting GEICO’s motion for default judgment as to common-law fraud claims in its suit against retailers of durable medical equipment (DME) and orthotic devices (OD), alleging that the retailers submitted thousands of fraudulent no-fault insurance claims for medically unnecessary DME and OD, finding that GEICO “sufficiently alleged the elements for their common law fraud claims.”...