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December 17, 2020 On Wednesday in the Eastern District of New York, Allstate Insurance Company, Allstate Fire & Casualty Insurance Company, and Allstate Property & Casualty Insurance Company filed a complaint against 21 entities, alleging the defendants were operating a scheme to defraud Allstate through the illegal corporate practice of medicine.
The plaintiffs alleged that nonphysicians Peter Khaim, Aleksandr Gulkarov, and Roman Israilov (the manager defendants) teamed up with physicians Azu Ajudua and Rolando Jose Mendez Chumaceiro (the physician defendants) to operate several professional corporations, Hillcrest Medical Care PC and Smart Choice Medical PC (the PC defendants). In New York, the complaint says, it is illegal to represent a physician as the owner of a PC when the PC is actually owned by “laypersons” unauthorized to practice medicine; the plaintiffs purported the defendants have done just that.