Kensington doctor, lawyer busted in almost $1 million insurance fraud scheme
The owner and operator of a fake Ocean Parkway medical clinic was indicted for running a million-dollar motor vehicle no-fault insurance scheme with an attorney and three others, prosecutors announced on Thursday.
Between July 2016 and July 2017, David Safir, who is not a licensed physician, allegedly owned and controlled Jamaica Wellness Medical P.C. in Kensington and directed patients injured in motor vehicle accidents to exaggerate their injuries to submit to insurance companies. Safir paid runners like Theron Grinage — who misrepresented himself as an attorney — to entice accident victims to go along with the scheme and never receive treatment.
Attorney Nadezhda Ursulova allegedly worked with Safir to transfer ownership of the clinic to himself and Dr. Alexander Haselkorn in order to not actually treat patients. Instead, patients were “diagnosed and referred for thousands of dollars of treatment, diagnostic testing and medical supplies by Dr. Haselkorn’s wife, Roberta Haselkorn, who is not a licensed medical provider,” prosecutors said.