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Man Arrested After Staging Slip and Fall In Western NY

By Chrissie Cole

p /p pA 46-year-old western New York man who pretended to a href="http://www.rnntv.com/Global/story.asp?S=9441478amp;nav=menu566_2"slip and fall/a at a local store has been charged with insurance fraud./p pThe man claims he was injured when he tripped and fell over a rug at a grocery store in Jamestown on July 24supth/sup, according to authorities. He was taken to the hospital and treated for an alleged back injury. He then submitted an insurance claim to the Farm Fresh marketrsquo;s insurance company./p pAfter viewing surveillance footage, investigators later discovered that he had laid down on the floor after adjusting the rug to make it appear as if he had tripped and fell./p pWhen authorities informed him of the video, he withdrew his claim. Authorities arrested him last month and also charged him with attempted petit larceny for submitting an $860 ambulance bill to the store for payment./p pHe faces up to a year in prison, if convicted. #/p p /pa href="http://newyorkcity.injuryboard.com/property-owners-liability-slip-and-fall/man-arrested-after-staging-slip-and-fall-in-western-ny.aspx?googleid=253848"Originally posted/a at a href="http://www.InjuryBoard.com"InjuryBoard/a by a href="http://www.injuryboard.com/member-profiles/Chrissie-Cole"Chrissie Cole/a

Full post as published by New York City Personal Injury Lawyer on December 07, 2008 (boomark / email).