Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – January 8, 2015 Congressman Pleads Guilty To Fraud After Cheating IRS and New York Workers’ Compensation System (NY) – New York Congressman Michael Grimm has pled guilty to aiding and assisting the preparation of a false tax return. Grimm admitted...

A civil action filed against BP Products North America, Inc. (“BP”) by more than 500 plaintiffs—including some 315 employees—in connection with an accidental chemical release by the refinery may continue toward trial, held a federal district court in Texas. BP had filed a motion...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – January 22, 2015 Toy Gun, Not Work, Caused Broken Tooth To Hurt (OK) – Nicholas Hurt has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud. Hurt, a tower technician at Cellular Consulting, claimed that he broke his tooth at work when he threw a chain...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – January 29, 2015 Super Bowl Week Fraud: Insurer Wants Disability Money Back From Former Star NFL Lineman Turned Personal Injury Lawyer (CA) – Former Tampa Bay Buccaneers defensive tackle Brad Culpepper, who now is a well-known personal injury attorney...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – February 5, 2015 Prosecutor Still Seeks Jail Time For Owner of Food Service Temp Agency Who Cooked the Books and Is Now Diagnosed With Alzheimer's Disease (MA) – The U.S. Department of Justice has recommended a jail sentence of three years for Margaret...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – February 12, 2015 Disabled Offshore Oil Worker Must Have Thought That Lawn Care Was Not Like Working (LA) – Mervin Noel has been sentenced to six months in prison and six months of home confinement for lying in order to continue receiving disability benefits...

Subway Employee Got Drunk At Home and Tripped Over Her Dog (MT) – Melody Collier has been ordered to pay restitution of more than $16,000 in illegal workers’ compensation benefits. Collier’s claim stated that she injured her knee while working at a Subway Sandwich shop in a Walmart...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – February 26, 2015 Fraud Conviction of Pest Service Technician Affirmed On Appeal (CA) – Victor Santiesteban’s conviction for making a fraudulent statement in his workers’ compensation claim and attempted perjury under oath has been upheld by...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – March 5, 2015 Will Seahawks’ Super Bowl Loss Cause Even More Pain For This Workers’ Compensation Fraudster? (WA) – Jeffory Mock Jr., who must be a diehard Seattle Seahawks fan, has been charged with faking on-the-job injuries and using the...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – March 12, 2015 Husband and Wife Hotel Owners Will Be Long-Term Guests At the 'Hótel Prisón' Chain After Hiring Undocumented Workers (KS) – Munir Ahmad Chaudary, the co-owner of two Clarion Hotels in the Kansas City area, has been...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – March 19, 2015 Surveillance Footage Showed Workers’ Compensation Claimant Trimming Trees and Repairing Cars While Collecting Benefits (OH) – Adelbert Tyman has pled guilty to workers’ compensation fraud for double-dipping. After receiving an...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – March 26, 2015 Owner of Food Service Temp Agency Who Cooked the Books Gets More Years In Prison After Exaggerating Alzheimer's Disease Diagnosis (MA) – Margaret Mathes, who along with her daughter, Bosea Prum, and two other co-defendant relatives,...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – April 2, 2015 Grandson Forged Grandma’s Signature After Her Death So He Could Collect Her Workers’ Compensation Benefits (WA) – Morgan Hopkins, who collected nearly $200,000 by claiming his grandmother was still alive years after her death...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – April 16, 2015 Employees Of Workers’ Compensation Insurer Used Stolen Money To Buy High-End Mercedes Benz G-Class Luxury SUV (CA) – Catherine Gregoire and Adela Belfrey have been arrested on charges of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, false...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – April 23, 2015 Facebook Posts and Video Crashes Workers’ Compensation Free Ride For BMX Biker (WA) – Tony Perry Sr. has pled guilty to stealing more than $14,000 in disability benefits and has been ordered to pay restitution and serve 15 days in...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – April 30, 2015 Security Officer At Marijuana Medical Dispensary Injured During Two Robberies With No Workers’ Compensation To Cover Medical Bills (CA) – Tiffany Shorter and Jabe Satterfield, the owners of the Green Cactus Collective Medical Marijuana...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – May 7, 2015 Cop Participated In Ice Bucket Challenge While Disabled (CA) – Pasadena police officer Jaime Robison has been charged with insurance fraud for allegedly participating in an “Ice Bucket Challenge”, despite claiming that she had a...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – May 14, 2015 Fishing in Alaska Hooks Fishy Disability Claim (AK) – Amancio Agcaoili, Jr. has been sentenced to 30 months in federal prison after pleading guilty to fraud and theft charges. Agcaoili, a Postal Service employee, devised a scheme to receive...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – May 21, 2015 Convicted Owner of Security Sentry Firm Will Get To Know the Guards On the Other Side of the Fence (OH) – Gregory Oakes, doing business as American Sentry Inc./Delta Elite Inc., will serve 90 days in jail for altering workers’ compensation...

Reversing a decision by the state’s Court of Appeals, the Supreme Court of Kentucky held that a sole proprietor was not entitled to workers’ compensation benefits following a work-related injury where an exclusion endorsement specifically named him as excluded from coverage for bodily injury;...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – June 4, 2015 Taxi Driver For Amish Community Pleads Guilty To Theft (OH) – John Melvin has pled guilty to one count of theft, a fifth-degree felony. Authorities received an anonymous allegation that Melvin was working as a taxi driver for the Amish community...

Workers' Comp Fraud Blotter – June 11, 2015 Louisville Businessman Sentenced To Years In Prison and Ordered To Pay Millions in Restitution For Massive Tax and Fraud Scheme (NY) – Anthony Huff, a Louisville, Kentucky businessman with national business interests, has been sentenced to...

An “alternate employer endorsement” written into the workers’ compensation insurance policy maintained by an employment staffing company that named the defendant special employer as an additional insured satisfied the requirements of Mass. Gen. Laws c. 152, §§ 15 and 18, such...

An Arkansas court held that the owner of a small Arkansas business appropriately secured workers’ compensation coverage when evidence indicated an insurance company issued a policy and the business paid a premium of $1,000. That the policy did not name any employees as being covered thereunder...

Oregon Report Provides Additional Evidence of a Continuing Downward Trend in Workers’ Compensation Premiums As states compete not just with foreign job markets but with each other to attract new business development, the cost of labor is often a primary concern to potential business suitors...