Texas Mutual Insurance Company reported today that Travis County grand juries indicted four claimants, in separate cases, on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The claimants allegedly collected a combined $22,837 in benefits they were not entitled to. The following are the …
An Ohio man was sentenced for working while receiving disability payments from the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) for a prior workplace injury. Joshua Schlosser was ordered to repay nearly $29,000 he improperly collected from BWC. “Mr. Schlosser held …
A Dennison, Ohio, man has been convicted of workers’ compensation fraud after he was found working while receiving workplace injury benefits. Steven Gooding pleaded guilty to the crime and was ordered to repay the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) …
A U.S. Post Office employee from Fayetteville, N.C., has pleaded guilty to workers compensation fraud after she was seen spinning the Big Wheel on the television show “The Price is Right” even though she had said she could not deliver …
Officials in Rhode Island are creating a new position to prosecute fraud in the state’s unemployment and workers’ compensation program. The state’s Department of Labor and Training announced the new position on Monday. The prosecutor will be tasked with rooting …
A Cincinnati man who was the subject of an undercover investigation by the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) has been sentenced for working while receiving benefits for a prior workplace injury. Michael Gundling was sentenced April 11 and has …
A 39 year old Tacoma woman faces charges on five counts of theft for fraudulently collecting more than $50,000 in workers’ compensation benefits from the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries (L&I). According to the Washington State Attorney General’s …
The Oklahoma Attorney General’s Office is planning a Workers’ Compensation Fraud Workshop. The workshop is scheduled to start Tuesday in Duncan. It’s part of a yearlong effort by the Attorney General’s Office to educate businesses on signs of workers’ compensation …
A Washington man thought he found the perfect way to get prescription narcotics – go to a hospital claiming to be in pain due to a work related injury. But an investigation by Washington’s Department of Labor & Industries uncovered …
An Ohio man was sentenced for working at his landscaping business while receiving Ohio Bureau of Worker’s Compensation (BWC) benefits for a prior workplace injury. Mark Mefferd was ordered to repay more than $18,000 after he was convicted of fraud …