A Travis County district court sentenced Rodney Williams of Seabrook, Texas for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Company. The court sentenced Williams to deferred adjudication and ordered him to pay $6,156 in restitution to Texas Mutual.
Williams reported a job-related injury while working as a welder for Vorte Industries, Inc. of Alvin, Texas. He claimed he was unable to work as a result of the injury, and Texas Mutual began paying workers’ compensation benefits to him. Texas Mutual uncovered evidence that Williams was working as a skilled laborer at a Houston company and a League City company while receiving income benefits due to his alleged disability.
Investigators call this type of fraud double dipping because the claimant collects benefits for being unable to work when he or she is actually gainfully employed.
Source: Texas Mutual Insurance Company
Was this article valuable?
Here are more articles you may enjoy.
Changing the Focus of Claims, Data When Talking About Nuclear Verdicts 
Fake Bear Attacks on Car for Fraudulent Insurance Claims Lead to Arrests 
Blacks and Hispanics Pay More for Auto Insurance. Study Tries to Answer Why. 
T-Mobile Caught Hackers Early, Averting Data Leak 
Want to stay up to date?
Get the latest insurance news
sent straight to your inbox.