A Travis County court sentenced Melody Tendayi of Austin, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported earlier this week. The court sentenced Tendayi to five years’ deferred adjudication and 150 community service hours. It also ordered …
A Ohio woman was ordered to repay more than $32,000 in connection with working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Laura Brown pleaded guilty April 9 in Franklin County Court of Common Pleas to workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree felony. “Ms. …
An Aroostook County jury has convicted a northern Maine man of theft of more than $10,000 in workers’ compensation benefits. Prosecutors said Friday that 63-year-old Stephen Tucker Sr. received more than $45,000 in benefits after injuring his hand awhile working …
A Travis County grand jury indicted G&M Construction and Glenda Gail Miller Howell on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to Texas Mutual Insurance Company. G&M Construction was a road repair contractor that performed crack seal operations and sign erection for …
Wayne Lu, 53 of Torrance is in custody on charges of alleged workers’ compensation fraud associated with an injury received during his employment with the U.S. Postal Service. Detectives from the California Department of Insurance, with the assistance of U.S. …
A 41-year-old Bremerton, Wash., man has been sentenced to 26 months in prison for defrauding hospitals to get painkillers. Robert B. Boyer, Jr., pleaded guilty recently to 10 felony counts of fraudulently obtaining controlled substances, according to the Washington Attorney …
There are essentially two types of workers’ compensation fraud — premium fraud and claimant fraud — and insurance producers can play a role in the discovery and resolution of both, according to one investigator who has brought some 800 cases …
A Ohio man was ordered to pay more than $30,000 in restitution for working while collecting workplace injury benefits. Dale Richards pleaded guilty March 12 to workers’ compensation fraud, a fifth-degree felony, after an investigation by the Ohio Bureau of …
Travis County district courts sentenced two men, in separate cases, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The men collected a combined $9,928 in benefits they were not entitled to, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Jose Rodrigo Ramirez-Valdez …
A 38-year-old East Wenatchee, Wash., man faces an April 24 trial on a charge of defrauding the state of workers’ compensation benefits in a case that goes back years. Rodimiro Cardenas Pacheco pleaded not guilty today to a first-degree theft …