IDENTIFYING AND HANDLING INSURANCE FRAUD

Sullivan and Graber would like to applaud one of its own, partners Gordon S. Graber, Esq., for a successful presentation on the topic of Workers Compensation fraud that took place over the summer in partnership with New Jersey Institute for Continuing Legal Education (ICLE). Gordon spoke on the topic of identifying and handling insurance fraud by discussing a historical overview, seminal case law, ways to identify fraud, various options available to insurance companies once fraud has been detected such as voiding policies or denying claims, and a review of various case examples on the subject.

Gordon Graber is a principal in the Morristown law firm of Sullivan and Graber, which has provided successful representation to insurance carriers and their insureds for over 29 years. Mr. Graber is a Certified Civil Trial Attorney and Qualified Mediator. Mr. Graber has lectured numerous times on insurance issues at the New Jersey Special Investigators Association and the New Jersey Vehicle Theft Investigators annual seminars and has prepared seminars for insurance carriers to satisfy CLE requirements.

Sullivan and Graber has extensive experience litigating insurance claims in Federal and State Courts in New Jersey and New York. The firm’s coverage work includes assisting insurance carriers in claim investigations and the taking of examinations under oath. Sullivan and Graber also provides carriers with legal opinions on issues including, but not limited to, coverage and policy conditions such as the duty to defend, bad faith claims, subrogation and indemnification.
The firm’s insurance work includes:

  • Arbitration and mediation
  • Auto Theft
  • Arson
  • Bad faith claims and litigation
  • Business and commercial coverage
  • Dram shop litigation
  • Environmental claims, coverage and pollution exclusions
  • First Party and Third Party coverage
  • General liability
  • Homeowner’s insurance
  • No Fault/PIP
  • Personal injury and wrongful death litigation
  • Product and Premises liability
  • Professional liability
  • Subrogation
  • Uninsured and Underinsured Motorist coverage.

In addition to general casualty work, Sullivan and Graber is recognized as a leader in the specialty practice of insurance fraud. The firm uses innovative techniques, advanced technology and hard work to fight fraud against insurance carriers. Sullivan and Graber pioneered the use of declaratory judgment actions to combat large fraud schemes. These actions have resulted in significant savings to the insurance industry. The firm adopted the procedural tools developed in those actions to curtail fraud in PIP, personal injury and property damage cases. Sullivan and Graber’s early use of injunctive relief to stay PIP suits and arbitrations pending the resolution of fraud and restitution actions in the Superior Court greatly reduced insurance carriers’ litigation costs as well as obtaining recoveries in the tens of millions of dollars for multiple insurance carriers.

Gordon Graber received his J.D. from Rutgers University School of Law in Newark in 1977. Mr. Graber is admitted in New York and New Jersey.