Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Terrance Hopkins of Tyler on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Hopkins to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered him to pay $3,673 in restitution to …
Officials from New York State’s Broome County unveiled a new initiative to crack down on workers’ compensation fraud. Broome County Executive Debbie Preston said Wednesday her county has created an informal task force to oversee workers’ compensation claims and make …
California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones awarded $32 million in grants to district attorneys across 36 counties in the state to combat workers’ compensation fraud. The grants, funded through employer assessments, support law enforcement efforts in investigating and prosecuting workers’ compensation …
When construction slowed during the recession, some companies hired workers and wrongly designated them as independent contractors to avoid paying insurance, taxes, fair wages and overtime. Danny Odom, chief operating officer of Odom Construction Systems, Inc. in Knoxville, Tennessee, says …
Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a jury in Travis County found Ramco Group LLC guilty on 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 also …
An 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, W.Va., was charged …
A West Virginia man and two Kentucky residents have been sentenced for their roles in a workers’ compensation scheme. The Charleston Gazette reported that Jerome Edward Russell of Williamson, Frelin R. Workman of Belfry, Ky. and his son, Randy Workman …
A 76-year-old Havre, Mont. man has been ordered to pay nearly $84,000 in restitution in a workers’ compensation fraud case. The U.S. Attorney’s Office says U.S. District Judge Dana Christensen also sentenced William Szudera to four years on probation on …
One in three U.S. and Canadian insurers does not feel adequately protected against fraud and more than half expect personal lines and workers’ compensation fraud to increase this year. The survey by FICO, a predictive analytics software company, found that …
A Jasper County, Miss., man has been indicted on charges of workers’ compensation fraud. Attorney General Jim Hood said 55-year-old David Myrick Cox, of Louin, surrendered to investigators with his office’s Insurance Integrity Unit at the Jasper County Sheriff’s Office. …
