Convicted of fraud for treating auto accident victims

Former Lindsay clinic owner guilty of posing as doctor and treating patients
Arun Reddy, 31, former owner of Lindsay Medical Laser Therapy, plead guilty to fraud over $5,000 in Toronto court yesterday and was sentenced to pay more than $50,000 in restitution

 The former owner of a Lindsay health-care clinic has been ordered to pay more than $50,000 in restitution after pleading guilty to fraud over $5,000 for posing as a licensed doctor and treating people suffering from injuries from vehicle accidents.

“Charges, sentencing and restitution are critical in deterring future insurance fraud in Canada,” said Greg Dunn, executive vice president of national claims with Aviva Canada, an insurance group.

“We would like to thank the Ontario Crown Attorney’s office, the Toronto Police Service and the Insurance Bureau of Canada for all their work in supporting this action.”

Arun Reddy, 31, owned Lindsay Medical Laser Therapy, and while he was operating here at the beginning of 2013, the Insurance Bureau of Canada and Aviva Canada Inc. contacted Toronto police, who put out a Canada-wide warrant for his arrest. Once the investigation started, Mr. Reddy is said to have closed up shop in Lindsay and opened another clinic in Alberta. Mr. Reddy was arrested in Fort Saskatchewan April 2 and charged with 15 counts of fraud.

Aviva Canada’s anti-fraud team, the Insurance Bureau of Canada, the Toronto Police Service, the College of Physicians and Surgeons and members of the Ontario Crown Attorney’s office all worked together to secure the guilty plea which Mr. Reddy entered in a Toronto courtroom Monday (Sept. 16).

Mr. Reddy was given a year of probation and a suspended sentence with conditions that he not apply as a physician anywhere in Canada, not submit invoices to insurance companies for any services rendered and pay more than $50,000 in restitution, including $15,490 to Aviva Canada and $36,717 to the Insurance Board of Canada that will be split up between eight other insurers Mr. Reddy defrauded.

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