Insurance Fraud

South Florida Insurance Fraud Criminal Defense Lawyer

The crime of insurance fraud in Florida applies to fraudulent behavior in all types of insurance policies — home, car, health, life and others. You can be charged with insurance fraud if prosecutors believe you knowingly make a false or misleading insurance claim, present false information on an application for insurance or conceal a fact material to an application. You may also be charged if you are part of an organized scheme to falsify car crashes for the purpose of collecting insurance money. And insurers themselves may be charged with insurance fraud if they intentionally change a doctor’s opinion in a report, or order doctors to change their opinions.

Depending on the value of the money that was fraudulently obtained, insurance fraud carries five to 30 years in prison and thousands of dollars in fines. Furthermore, doctors, medical facilities, attorneys and others are singled out by the code for professional licensing consequences if they are convicted under the Florida insurance fraud statute. With both their freedom and their livelihoods on the line, people charged with insurance fraud should consider speaking to a Miami-Dade insurance fraud criminal defense attorney as soon as possible.

If you or someone you love is charged with insurance fraud in Florida, you should contact an experienced South Florida insurance fraud criminal defense attorney. To set up a free, confidential consultation, you should call Fort Lauderdale insurance fraud criminal defense lawyer Menachem M. Mayberg as soon as possible. You can reach us online or call (305) 695-8750 anytime — 24 hours a day, seven days a week.

For further reading, see Florida Statute 817.234: False and fraudulent insurance claims.