Personal injury attorney George Constantine and orthopedic surgeon Andrew Dowd were convicted by a Manhattan federal jury late last year for knowingly profiting from a massive $31 million trip-and-fall accident scheme. Constantine reportedly filed nearly 250 fraudulent personal injury lawsuits, and Dowd performed hundreds of unnecessary knee and shoulder surgeries on patients referred to him through co-conspirators. In April of this year, U.S. District Court Judge Sidney H. Stein sentenced Constantine and Dowd to 8 1/2 years in prison.

Many of us laugh off the seriousness of fraudulent trip-and-fall accidents, believing that these staged accidents are typically the work of amateur fraudsters, who collect relatively paltry sums of money if successful. Surveillance video has sometimes captured clumsy attempts at this type of fraud, such as a New Jersey man who was caught on his own workplace camera filling a cup with ice, throwing the ice on the floor, and fake-falling in the office cafeteria for insurance money. The surveillance video became public—and went viral. See https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8CpwqUJHNyI.

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