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Insurance Companies Need to Grow Some Kahunas and Stop the Settlement Cycle
Today, I couldn’t help but think that insurance companies perpetuate the rampant fraud that is systemic in the workers compensation, liability and auto claims process. The Miami Herald wrote an interesting article on a guy that runs around...
Jailed Anesthesiologist Pays $830,000 in Restitution to Ohio Workers Comp Board
In one of the largest restitution payments in Ohio Workers’ Comp History, jailed anesthesiologist Dr. Jorge Martinez who was convicted in 2006 on 56 criminal counts stemming from a wide reaching health care fraud paid the OWCB $830,000....
Texas Medical Supply Company Submits Almost $1 Million of Fraudulent Claims
According to the Star-Telegraph - Kay Ann White, 45, owner and operator of Electra Enterprises and Electra Med in Kennedale, submitted $917,392 in fraudulent claims to the Texas Workers’ Compensation Act and the Federal Employees’...
Federal Workers Comp Benefits Paid to Employees Over 80 Years Old
Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, on Tuesday asked the Government Accountability Office to start looking into possible waste, fraud and abuse in federal workers’ compensation benefits.
The federal government pays benefits to about 49,000 federal...
Companies Falsely Classify Workers as Independent Contractors to Cut Costs in California
Throughout my career as a computer lawyer, I have worked as both an independent contractor and an employee. From a worker’s perspective, the two situations are quite different. Employers often try to classify employees as independent contractors...
In New York – Insurance Fraud is No Laughing Matter
PRNewswire – Insurance fraud is an enticing enterprise for criminals throughout New York State, but you’ve got to wonder just what some of the state’s fraudsters were thinking when they cooked up the scams that led to their...
Workers Comp Surveillance Spies on Woman Using GPS
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Teej Cummins’ outlook on life changed when she stopped at a Shawnee Hills store in September.
When she left the store, a stranger approached her and told her that someone did something to her car.
Cummins said that...
Employers Commit Fraud Too..
I read an article today in the Mercury News about an employer who moved the body of an employee who died on the job to an orchid field so they could avoid workers’ compensation benefits. Shocking!!
According to the article the employer...
If You Can’t Work You Shouldn’t be on TV
Apparently Garrett A. Dalton forgot he was on workers’ compensation when he entered a contest to win Hannah Montana tickets. According to news reports Mr. Dalton entered a radio station contest that required him to dress up in woman’s...
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