Farmers insurance exchange is seeking $1 million in damages from 46 minnesota chiropractors and a mobile diagnostic imaging facility for an illegal kickback scheme that sent farmers customers for unneeded MRI scans.

According to the lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Minneapolis, Edina, Minn.-based business Mobile Diagnostic Imaging (MDI) courted local chiropractors, clinics and chiropractic students (sometimes with a vacation to the owner’s property in the Cayman Islands), offering a “confidential rental agreement” to lease their office equipment, including telephones, fax machines, copiers and Internet access.

The court document says the lease agreements were “merely a pretext for paying kickbacks to the defendants” for referring car crash victims to MDI.

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