Fifteen years ago, the New York Court of Appeals ruled that a violation of a licensing requirement by a medical provider rendered the provider ineligible to be reimbursed by an insurance company for no-fault claims that had been assigned to the provider by an individual allegedly involved in an automobile accident. The court recognized that one such kind of licensing violation was the lack of ownership and/or control over a medical professional corporation by a licensed medical doctor, and it made clear that insurance carriers may look beyond the face of a medical professional corporation's licensing documents to identify a failure to abide by state law in this regard.