ZIFL Volume 28, Issue 4\n\nThe Source for the Insurance Fraud Professional\nSubscribe here:\n\n\nZalma\u2019s Insurance Fraud Letter (ZIFL) continues its 28th year of \npublication dedicated to those involved in reducing the effect of \ninsurance fraud. ZIFL is published 24 times a year by ClaimSchool and is\n written by Barry Zalma.\xa0 It is provided FREE to anyone who visits the \nsite at http://zalma.com/zalmas-insurance-fraud-letter-2/\n\n\nThe current issue can be read in full at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf and\n includes the following articles:\n\nDo the Crime, Serve the Time\nChutzpah: After Pleading Guilty Fraudster Tried to Reduce his Sentence \nby an Appeal\n\nAfter pleading guilty, Armando Valdes appealed his 60-month sentence for\n health care fraud, in violation of 18 U.S.C. \xa7 1347. Valdes\u2019s \nconviction and sentence arose out of his scheme to submit millions of \ndollars in fraudulent medical claims to United Healthcare and Blue Cross\n Blue Shield for intravenous infusions of Infliximab, an expensive \nimmunosuppressive drug. These infusions, purportedly given to patients \nat Valdes\u2019s medical clinic, Gasiel Medical Services (\u201cGasiel\u201d), were \neither not provided or were medically unnecessary.\n\nRead the full article in Adobe pdf format at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf\n\nMore McClenny Moseley & Associates Issues\n\nThis is ZIFL\u2019s twenty fourth installment of the saga of McClenny, \nMoseley & Associates and its problems with the federal courts in the\n State of Louisiana and what appears to be an effort to profit from what\n some Magistrate and District judges indicate may be criminal conduct to\n profit from insurance claims relating to hurricane damage to the public\n of the state of Louisiana.\n\nRead the full article in Adobe pdf format at http://zalma.com/blog/wp-\n\nCalifornia Insurance Commissioner Lara Issues Consumer Fraud Alert As \nFlood Recovery Begins In San Diego County\n\nFollowing the recent flooding in San Diego which damaged and destroyed \nhundreds of homes, businesses, and vehicles, Insurance Commissioner \nRicardo Lara put the Department of Insurance on alert for potential \nfraud and illegal actions targeting flood victims. \n\nRead the full article in Adobe pdf format at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf\n\nHealth Insurance Fraud Convictions\nGuilty in Arkansas\n\nShaona Mizell, 52, of Paragould, Arkansas. in Pulaski County Circuit \nCourt on January 23, Mizell pleaded guilty to Medicaid Fraud, a class A \nmisdemeanor.\n\nRead the full article in Adobe pdf format at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf\n\nArson and Restitution\n\nCONVICTED ARSONIST MUST PAY RESTITUTION\n\nA fire at a residential property destroyed several structures and made \nnearly all of the owner\u2019s personal property unsalvageable. \n\nInsurance Fraud Attempt Defeated\n\nTHE HAWAIIAN, ATTEMPTED FRAUD DEFEATED BY A THOROUGH INVESTIGATION\n\nThe following is a fictionalized True Crime Story of Insurance Fraud \nfrom an Expert who explains why Insurance Fraud is a \u201cHeads I Win, Tails\n You Lose\u201d situation for Insurers.\n\nRead the full article in Adobe pdf format at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf\n\nBarry Zalma\n\nBarry Zalma, Esq., CFE, now limits his practice to service as an \ninsurance consultant specializing in insurance coverage, insurance \nclaims handling, insurance bad faith and insurance fraud almost equally \nfor insurers and policyholders.\n\n(c) 2024 Barry Zalma & ClaimSchool, Inc.\n\nPlease tell your friends and colleagues about this blog and the videos \nand let them subscribe to the blog and the videos.\n\nSubscribe to my substack at \nhttps://barryzalma.substack.com/publish/post/107007808\n\nGo to Newsbreak.com\xa0 https://www.newsbreak.com/@c/1653419?s=01\n\nGo to X @bzalma; Read the full article in Adobe pdf format at \nhttp://zalma.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/ZIFL-02-15-2024.pdf
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