Recommendation For Denial Of Default Judgment Adopted In GEICO PIP Fraud Row

( March 28, 2025, 12:00 PM EDT) -- CENTRAL ISLIP, N. Y. — A New York federal judge adopted a magistrate judge’s report and recommendation advising granting in part and denying in part GEICO’s motion for default judgment against a physician and his medical practices in a declaratory judgment suit over purported fraud regarding more than $95,000 in personal injury protection (PIP) insurance charges for medically unnecessary services, finding no error in the magistrate judge’s recommendation. . . .