A Brooksville, Ky. man pleaded guilty to theft and has been sentenced in connection with working while receiving workers’ comp benefits from the city of Cincinnati. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) assisted Cincinnati, a self-insured employer, with its …
A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood on Monday said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s Insurance Integrity Unit at the Jasper County …
A veteran police officer has been hired to lead anti-fraud efforts at the $28 billion state insurance fund for injured workers. Rick Gregory, on the job since the beginning of last month, will oversee 123 employees at the Bureau of …
A Spokane, Wash., restaurant co-owner accused of fraudulently collecting nearly $250,000 in workers’ compensation benefits has been charged with first-degree theft. The Washington Labor and Industries Department said Wednesday that Wanitta Racicot filed for workers’ comp in 2001, saying she …
A Cleveland man has been sentenced after a jury convicted him of failing to maintain workers’ compensation coverage for his business. Donald L. “Donnie” Schilling, owner of Cleveland Tire & Wheel, was found to be concealing employee payroll figures so …
Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Michael Shane Schmidt of Mineral Wells, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Schmidt to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered him to pay $2,649 …
Michael Mallory pleaded guilty in Franklin Common Pleas Court to workers’ compensation fraud after relocating and posting on Facebook photos of his work for an Arizona employer. Mallory was ordered to pay BWC $7,644.08 in restitution and investigative costs to …
A Travis County grand jury indicted Mark Edward Helm and McClanahan Drywall, Inc., of Emory, Texas, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges, according to an announcement by Texas Mutual Insurance Company. Helm was an officer of McClanahan Drywall, Inc. and obtained …
Five people were arrested in a Florida organized workers’ compensation scheme. The arrests of Otto Biltres, Tampa, 41; Charles Brown, Tarpon Springs, 38; Kelly Bree Brown, Tarpon Springs, 34; Johnny Alton Lewis, Clearwater, 51; and Joseph T. Jordan, Palm Harbor, …
The owners of Triple Star Roofing (Wood County) were found guilty of fraud July 15 for failing to report payroll to the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) in an attempt to avoid paying workers’ comp insurance premiums. Frederick Diebert …