On the heels of Florida's passage of 'milestone PIP reform' comes news that no-fault fraud is alive and well farther north.

In Allstate Insurance Company's second fraud-related lawsuit of 2012, the insurer seeks to recoup more than $6 million from four New Yorkers accused of fueling the state's rampant personal injury protection (PIP) fraud problem.

Implicated in the suit are a physician, a medical professional corporation, a management company, and an unlicensed layperson. The latter of the defendants is charged with using his management company to control at least one medical professional corporation.

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