Alleged Medicare Whistleblowers Seek to Revive Allstate Suit

Two purported whistleblowers of what they claim was a scheme by dozens of insurers to defraud Medicare told a Sixth Circuit panel Thursday that they were the first to make the specific allegations of fraud, despite a previous ruling that the allegations mirror ones from nearly a decade ago.

Two False Claims Act lawsuits unsealed in 2014 were so generic that they don’t relate to what his clients later alleged against Allstate Insurance Co. and dozens of insurance entities, said J. Alfredo Armas of Armas Bertran Zincone, who represents relators MSP WB LLC and Michael Angelo.

He compared the relationship ...