Alabama’s Labor Department agreed Thursday to work with the U.S. Department of Labor to crack down on businesses that classify people as independent contractors when they are really regular employees. Alabama Labor Commissioner Fitzgerald Washington and the U.S. Department of …
A Montgomery County police officer has been charged with perjury and workers’ compensation fraud. Gilbert Payne was charged Tuesday in Baltimore City Circuit Court. The 40-year-old Payne didn’t respond to a message seeking comment at his home Tuesday. Maryland’s state …
A Travis County district court sentenced Anthony Stokes and Mario Williams of Little Elm, Texas for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, reported Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Stokes and Williams were sentenced to one year deferred adjudication and ordered to pay $41,844 …
Rick Hudson was sitting at his booth at the California Workers’ Compensation & Risk Conference on Thursday scanning emails on his smartphone during a slow period when he was asked what the most significant change to his job has been …
A Travis County district court sentenced Raj Dhingra of Houston for workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Dhingra was sentenced to deferred adjudication and ordered to pay $39,800 in restitution to Texas Mutual. …
Officials say a 22-year-old beauty pageant contestant has been arrested in California after being caught on video walking comfortably in high heels while collecting workers’ compensation benefits after saying she had a broken toe. The state Department of Insurance said …
Workers from a Naples, Fla., vegetable and fruit packing plant are headed back to court as they face charges related to alleged workers’ comp fraud. The case stems from the raid of a packing plant where more than 100 workers …
A California woman was arrested on charges related to her allegedly submitting a fraudulent workers’ compensation claim for treatment of post-traumatic stress disorder associated with a robbery, that she actually assisted in staging, at a bank where she worked as …
A Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $19,000 in workers’ compensation restitution in connection with working while receiving workplace injury benefits. Patrick Woods, formerly of Chillicothe (Ross County), pleaded guilty June 5 in Ross County Court of Common …
A Lynnwood woman must repay Washington state more than $200,000 for workers’ comp benefits she received fraudulently. Sharon Jean Weaver, 64, had claimed she was too disabled to work while operating an adult family home at the same time. She …