A federal judge has granted Bradley Pierre’s request to vacate his default in a civil racketeering case brought by the American Transit Insurance Company, allowing the defendant to contest allegations that he orchestrated a multimillion-dollar insurance fraud scheme involving staged medical referrals.
Judge Rachel P. Kovner, of the US District Court for the Eastern District of New York, adopted a magistrate’s recommendation to give Mr. Pierre his day in court, finding that he had asserted a plausible defense and that the insurance company would not be unduly prejudiced by reopening the case.
The lawsuit, filed in January 2024, accuses Mr. Pierre of masterminding a bribery scheme in which he and others paid 911 operators and hospital employees to steer automobile accident victims to two medical entities: Rutland Medical P.C. and Nexray Medical Imaging, P.C., also known as Soul Radiology Medical Imaging. Both entities are alleged to have posed as legitimate professional corporations while secretly under Mr. Pierre’s control – an arrangement the insurer contends violates New York law…