Medical Transport Business Lacked Comp Coverage, Prosecutors Allege

The owner of a medical transportation business in Broome County, New York, has been arrested on suspicion of running the company without workers’ compensation insurance or a valid taxi business license. The defendant is Garabed Kachadourian, owner of BC Cab Inc., which received payments from Medicaid for transporting the program’s beneficiaries to medical appointments. According to the office of New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, the company collected more than $95,000 in Medicaid payments from October 2012 to May 2014 while operating without workers’ comp insuran...