David Brownell, a former corrections officer at the Glades Correctional Institution was arrested on a charge of first-degree workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly faking illness to fraudulently collect over $2.7 million in claims payments, according to an announcement byFlorida Chief …
A Columbus man has been sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud after the Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) caught him on camera working at his lawn care business while he claimed he was unable to work due to a workplace …
A Tacoma, Wash., couple has been charged with falsely claiming workers compensation benefits and pocketing $223,000. The state Department of Labor & Industries says 63-year-old Jamie S. Beroth collected $100,664 in benefits between March 2009 and July 2011 for a …
The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) announced that nine individuals were convicted of or pleaded guilty to charges related to defrauding Ohio’s workers’ compensation system during October, a result of investigations conducted by BWC’s special investigations department (SID). A …
New Jersey authorities announced that a Burlington County company has pleaded guilty for under-reporting the number of its employees and wages to evade the full payment of workers’ compensation insurance premiums. Techdan LLC pleaded guilty last month to second-degree theft …
A teaching assistant in Southern California has been arrested on several felony counts of workers’ compensation fraud. Gerard Padilla, 45, an employee of the Los Angeles County Office of Education, has been arrested and charged with five felony counts of …
A New Hampshire woman who fabricated bills for medical care and massage treatment in a worker’s compensation settlement will spend a year in jail. Phyllis Graham of Manchester pleaded guilty to felony theft by deception and attempted theft by deception. …
A Maine state transportation department worker has been convicted of stealing thousands of dollars’ worth of workers compensation benefits by doing strenuous activities at his home when he was supposedly too hurt to work. Clinton Ashby III of Pembroke was …
Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation (BWC) investigators uncovered fraud in Cleveland with an investigation into Anthony Perry, who was discovered working as a landscaper while receiving injured worker benefits. Perry was sentenced in a Franklin County courtroom last week and …
A former central New York mail carrier has been sentenced to more than a year in prison and ordered to pay back the more than $325,000 in workers compensation funds she stole from the federal government. The U.S. Attorney’s Office …