Chicken and the sea? Nope, fraud investigators say
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Shellfish in the chicken? Smells fishy, insurance company says regarding an alleged scam where two Atlanta-area women claimed they had an allergic reaction after eating chicken at local restaurants, according to The Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
Mikala Genea Flonnoy, 28, of Decatur, Georgia, and Alicia Shellree Nelson, of Villa Rica, Georgia, were arrested in late April after receiving thousands of dollars from insurance companies in connection with those non-existent allergic reactions after claiming their food contained shrimp, the newspaper reported Wednesday.
The duo are accused of falsifying insurance claims, medical records and billing statements to obtain money from insurance companies and both face first-degree forgery and insurance fraud charges, according to the article.
And there may be more, as the insurance commissioner told the newspaper that his office is investigating a possible ring of 10 people who used phony food allergies to defraud insurance companies of nearly $25,000.
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