Generally rico prohibits four different types of activities investment of racketeering income in an enterprise acquisition or control of an enterprise due to a pattern of racketeering activity operation of a rico enterprise and rico conspiracy of these four types of activities plaintiffs in civil rico actions most commonly rely on 18 usc 1962c conducting the affairs of an enterprise through a common pattern of racketeering activity. In their never ending zeal to deny claims insurance companies often file a civil rico case against physicians who treat auto accident victims and accept payment via an assignment of their patients no fault insurance benefits such suits generally allege fraud on the part of the physicians for instance that they unlawfully incorporated their professional medical corporation by violating the new york law prohibiting non physicians from controlling and or sharing ownership in these types . The proponent of the civil rico claim shall file and serve within days of a case statement that shall include the facts relied on to initiate the rico claim in particular the statement shall use the numbers and letters set forth below unless filed as part of an amended and restated pleading in which latter case the allegations of the amended and restated pleading shall reasonably follow the organization set out below and shall state in detail and with specificity the following . Rico law or the racketeer influenced and corrupt organizations act is a law that allows the government to punish individuals associated with criminal activity specifically the leaders of crime organizations before rico law existed crime bosses would order their minions to carry out crimes for them and claim innocence if the police found out their argument was that technically no one could prosecute them for crimes like murder because they werent the ones doing the killing