Wednesday, August 21st, 2002 — Five insurance companies have teamed up to sue five chiropractic clinics and their owners and doctors, alleging $3 million in damages in a Twin City fraud suit.
Progessive Corporation of Mayfield Village, Ohio; Allstate Corp. of Northbrook, Ill., and it‘s subsidiary Encompass Insurance; Mutual Service Insurance Companies of St. Paul, Minn.; and Western National Mutual Insurance Group, headquartered in Edina, Minn., joined forces in filing a civil lawsuit. The suit alleges that a group of St. Paul and Minneapolis area clinic owners and chiropractors arranged for accident victims to visit their establishments to defraud the insurers.
The suit, filed in Hennepin County District Court, alleges that over a two-year period, insurance investigators found that the clinics obtained motor vehicle accident reports