LOS ANGELES (AP) — Fifteen doctors, pharmacists and others medical professionals in Southern California have been charged in a $25 million workers’ compensation scam that prosecutors say was linked to the death of a baby.

Recently unsealed indictments allege that Kareem Ahmed, who heads the workers’ compensation claims management firm Landmark Medical Management, hired pharmacists to produce a pain-relief cream, gave kickbacks to doctors and chiropractors to prescribe it, and also conspired to submit phony claims.