Well known personal injury law firms and an affiliated network of doctors have been accused of orchestrating a multimillion dollar insurance fraud operation, Bloomberg reports:

“In the federal case, filed Monday in the central district of California, Uber accused the defendants of directing passengers to “pre-selected medical providers” who submitted inflated bills to treat negligible or non-existent injuries from minor collisions between 2019 and 2024. Uber said the personal injury lawyers named in the case took advantage of a state-mandated $1 million rideshare insurance policy limit by fraudulently inducing “significantly larger settlement payments.” In one case, it said, the medical bill was 10 times more than the norm”

America’s personal injury system is riddled with predatory actors who work in tandem to inflate damages, which drives up costs for consumers across the country. 

PACT has extensively covered the detailed web of connections between law firms and medical providers, detailed in its 5-minute explainer film, available to watch here.