A former New York politician is under fire for filing hundreds of lawsuits on behalf of a doctor accused of being involved in a sprawling auto insurance fraud scam, according to a New York Focus investigation:
“Between May 2024 and July 2025, Frank Seddio, Brooklyn’s Democratic commissioner on the New York City Board of Elections, filed more than 500 “no-fault” auto insurance lawsuits on behalf of a Brooklyn-based physician. The cases were filed under the state law meant to expedite drivers’ reimbursements for medical expenses stemming from accidents — regardless of who is at fault.
Before becoming Seddio’s client, Dr. Jules F. Parisien had been accused across multiple lawsuits of participating in schemes to obtain money from insurance companies by submitting thousands of fraudulent, unlawful, and non-reimbursable claims for purported medical services.”
Seddio is a former state assemblymember, Surrogate’s Court judge, and chair of the Brooklyn Democratic party, and ran a boutique law firm. According to the report:
“He began filing no-fault insurance lawsuits en masse in May 2024 on behalf of Parisien, alleging auto insurers failed to pay bills for medical services the doctor had provided to accident victims.
Parisien owns a number of companies through which he submits enormous volumes of no-fault auto insurance claims — and associated lawsuits — against insurance companies. The lawsuits seek reimbursement for medical treatments at 1786 Flatbush Ave in Brooklyn.”
The medical providers at the Brooklyn address, including Parisien, have been sued repeatedly for alleged fraud. One company’s attorney alleges Parisen, along with the other healthcare providers:
“sought payments from the company for alleged injuries that were either never sustained or resulted from staged ‘accidents’ and fraudulently procured policies.”
Parisien was home-bound and unable to physically perform the services being described in the claims for purported medical services. This scheme exposes the ease in which unscrupulous actors can exploit the legal system to turn a profit using lawsuits and fraud.