A Colorado woman who operated a tax and insurance business received an 18-month deferred sentence and was fined $3,000 for helping a client avoid paying worker’s compensation premiums on a construction project in Montana, the state Department of Justice said. …
Austin-based Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a jury in Travis County found Ramco Group, LLC guilty of workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The district court ordered Ramco to pay restitution of $15,567, a $15,000 fine and court costs. The court …
Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater announced the arrest of Nassar Faraj Hasan, 27, owner of a Tampa money service business, as part of a continuing enforcement effort known as “Operation Dirty Money.” Hasan allegedly failed to appropriately document multiple …
A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers compensation scheme. The Charleston Gazette reports that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of Belfry, Ky. and his son, Randy Workman …
New York is second in the nation, only behind California, for questionable workers compensation insurance claims. New York jumped to second in 2012 from fifth in 2011. “Workers compensation insurance fraud is a serious problem in New York,” Ellen Melchionni, …
An Ohio man pleaded guilty to fraud after an investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) showed he was working while receiving workers’ comp benefits. Randall Bridges, Jr. was sentenced in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas …
A Ohio man owes the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) more than $40,000 after he was discovered working while receiving workers’ comp benefits. Dominic Musarra, who was working as a satellite cable installer in Point Pleasant, West Virginia, pleaded …
An Ohio man pleaded guilty to theft and was sentenced in connection with working while receiving workers’ comp benefits. A judge in the Franklin County Court of Common Pleas ordered Cecil Ball to repay nearly $10,000. “Mr. Ball was attempting …
An Ohio, man must return nearly $4,000 to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) after investigators caught him on camera demolishing homes when he was supposed to be off work recovering from a workplace injury. John Perkins was sentenced …
A recent poll on Claims Journal’s website ranked employee fraud as the top costliest fraud in workers’ compensation. Though stories of employee fraud are publicized frequently by state insurance departments, two other types of workers’ compensation fraud – employer and …