Driver In Fatal Hit-And-Run Charged With Padding Insurance Claim

A Wheatfield hit-and-run fatality in 2014 continues to reverberate through local courtrooms. The driver who killed Ryan Fischer, 16, of North Tonawanda, faces charges of illegally padding an insurance claim he filed after the teenager’s mother, who was drunk at the time, rammed his garage door and damaged his vehicle. Anthony J. DiFilippo of Wheatfield was arrested Monday and brought to State Supreme Court in Lockport, where he pleaded not guilty to fourth-degree insurance fraud, attempted fourth-degree grand larceny and filing a false statement. "It’s the very same car that he killed Ryan Fischer in, that he made the inflated claim on, allegedly...."