Uber Alleges Fraud Scheme by NY Groups Faking Car-Crash Injuries

Ride-sharing giant Uber Technologies Inc. filed a racketeering lawsuit against a group of law firms, doctors and pain-management clinics it claims staged fake car accidents and performed unnecessary surgeries to take advantage of New York’s lucrative no-fault insurance policies.

Since at least 2019, the group has conspired “to exploit passengers in purported or actual minor vehicle collisions,” provided sometimes “medically unnecessary” or even “invasive and painful surgeries like spinal fusions” for medical conditions that are “fictitious, exaggerated or that preexisted,” Uber said in the federal suit filed Thursday in Brooklyn, New York.