Federal prosecutors say a man will spend less than a year in prison for his role in an insurance scam involving staged car crashes in eastern Connecticut. Jonas Joseph was sentenced Wednesday in New Haven federal court to eight months …
A federal judge has spared a former Chicago executive the necessity of serving the final few months of his prison sentence for stealing millions from his insurance brokerage. U.S. District Judge Ruben Castillo, citing glowing reports of his behavior in …
Some Illinois prison guards who received workers’ compensation settlements had only mild carpal tunnel syndrome in their wrists or similar elbow injuries and might not have needed surgery, according to a newspaper investigation. Guards at the Menard Correctional Center have …
The owner of a Des Moines firm that provides companies with temporary employees has been sentenced to nearly five years in federal prison in a scheme to reduce the cost of his workers’ compensation insurance. The U.S. attorney’s office says …
A doctor convicted in the overdose deaths of four patients and implicated in eight more deaths faces has been sentenced to in federal court in Cincinnati, Ohio, on Feb. 14 to four life terms in prison, the U.S. Drug Enforcement …
New workers’ compensation claims have continued to pile up this year at Menard Correctional Center in Illinois despite ongoing probes by federal authorities, a newspaper reported on June 12. According to the Belleville News-Democrat, which has published a series of …
A 67-year-old Plaquemine, La., insurance agent has been sentenced to more than four years in federal prison for mail fraud that cost several of his insurance clients nearly $1.4 million. U.S. District Judge Brian A. Jackson, of Baton Rouge, ordered …
