Robert A. Stern is a Partner in the New York office of Manning Kass. He is a member of the Special Investigations Unit / Insurance Fraud Litigation team.

Mr. Stern has concentrated in insurance fraud law for over 25 years, helping create new law and theories of recovery for our clients. Mr. Stern assists and advises insurers in detecting, deterring, preventing, and prosecuting insurance fraud medical mills formed to exploit NY State and other states’ no-fault laws. He has successfully represented insurers in scores of affirmative recovery actions (including under RICO), filed in federal and state courts, to recoup money paid to medical clinics and healthcare providers that allegedly operated under illegal corporate structures, were fraudulently incorporated, engaged in illegal self-referral and kickback schemes, billed for medical services that were not provided as billed and the performance of unnecessary diagnostic testing and treatment. 

In addition, Mr. Stern provides advisory services with respect to insurance fraud-related issues; assists in the development of insurance fraud programs that comply with applicable laws and regulations; provides clients with coverage opinions; and prepares responses to regulatory inquiries and administrative actions. He has also authored and co-authored numerous articles on insurance fraud; spoken on a variety of insurance fraud issues at international, national, and regional insurance fraud conferences; participated in insurance fraud workshops; trained federal and state law enforcement agencies, as well as insurance claims and investigative personnel; and has been invited to speak before a number of insurance focus groups, roundtable gatherings, blue-ribbon panels, and executive meetings. 

Mr. Stern has been counsel to the New York Alliance Against Insurance Fraud since its formation. Additionally, Mr. Stern represents the firm’s clients in connection with first- and third-party fraudulent bodily injury claims, auto theft, arson, life and health insurance fraud, staged accidents and staged theft loses, insurance coverage litigation, first- and third-party bad faith litigation, and complex litigation.