California regulators have issued assessment rates that employers will pay in 2013 for the Workers’ Compensation Administration Revolving Fund. The fund covers the Division of Workers’ Compensation budget, the Uninsured Employers Benefits Trust Fund, the Subsequent Injuries Benefits Trust Fund, …
A former Florida prison guard is free on bond after being charged with faking illness to fraudulently collect more than $2.7 million in workers’ compensation. Authorities said David Brownell was arrested last week in Tampa, where he lives. He was …
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 …
Confidence in the state government to reform California’s unwieldy workers’ compensation system is falling as Legislators struggle to get buy-in on a bill to increase benefits for injured workers and address escalating costs. A recent poll shows nearly six in …
A Midland, Texas-based company has pleaded guilty to misrepresenting the payroll of an affiliated firm, according to workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. AB Abatement Inc. of Midland, pled guilty to charges that it misrepresented the numbers of employees …
Florida lawmakers are looking to give regulators and law enforcement officials more flexibility to investigate check cashing companies that may be facilitating fraud in the construction industry. The House Subcommittee on Insurance and Banking yesterday approved HB 1277, sponsored by …
A North Carolina man has been sentenced to four years in a Florida prison and ordered to pay more than $3.1 million in restitution after pleading guilty in a workers’ compensation fraud case, according to officials. Florida Chief Financial Officer …
The California Restaurant Mutual Benefit Corp. (CRMBC) is holding up a new conviction as success story in its ‘intensified campaign’ against workers’ compensation fraud. Jeanette Gallo pleaded no contest to one of the two felony counts of insurance fraud in …
Florida officials, law enforcement officers and trade groups are lining up in an effort to stop checking cashing companies from facilitating workers’ compensation fraud in the construction industry. Headed up by Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, officials held the first …
Florida officials are calling for an investigation into the role of check cashing services in helping construction subcontractors avoid paying their fair share of workers’ compensation premiums. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jeff Atwater, who has called for a working group …
