2018 Top Ten Workers’ Compensation Fraud Cases By: Leonard T. Jernigan, Jr. and Law Clerk, Alondra Bribiesca Raleigh, North Carolina Non-Employee Fraud Cases - 10 $ 99.7 Million Employee Fraud Cases - 0 $ 0 Total Fraud $ 99.7 Million Three of the Top Ten Cases in 2018 [...]
Today's post comes from Anthony Lucas at the Jernigan Law Firm. Civil Immunity under the Workers' Compensation Act Under the North Carolina Workers’ Compensation Act, there are a few instances where the Act specifically precludes or limits civil liability for certain actors. Not surprisingly, two of the three listed below are related to reporting [...]
2017 Top Ten Workers’ Compensation Fraud Cases by Leonard T. Jernigan, Jr. Raleigh, N.C. Non-Employee Fraud Cases - 10 $ 697.4 Million Employee Fraud Cases - 0 $ 0 Total Fraud $ 697.4 Million Seven of the top ten cases in 2017 are from California, two from Texas, [...]
Number Value Non-Employee Fraud Cases 10 $ 412,000,000 Employee Fraud Cases 0 $ 0 Total $ 412,000,000 Four of the top ten cases in 2016 are from perennial offender California, three from Florida, one each from Massachusetts and Texas, and one involving 20 different states. The misclassification of employees by employers continues to create dramatic financial [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Thomas Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Legislatures around the country (including ours in Wisconsin) seem to be preoccupied with employee fraud in workers'’ compensation, despite overwhelming evidence that employee fraud is virtually nonexistent. Employer fraud, however, continues to plague the industry. Over the last decade, my friend and colleague [...]
Several months ago, the North Carolina Industrial Commission published their Annual Report for 2014 - 2015. Based on the Annual Report, employer fraud was by far the overwhelming majority of investigated fraud in the North Carolina workers'’ compensation system. The Annual Report tracked investigations of suspected fraud and violations related to workers'’ compensation involving employees, [...]
Recent years have not been favorable to injured workers'. States across the nation have enacted “reform” measures curbing injured workers' benefits. Disability caps have been introduced, medical care restricted. In our last blog, we discussed Oklahoma’s Opt Out provisions as an example of the court system declaring that the legislature had legislated away too much [...]
Number Value Non-Employee Fraud Cases 9 $ 848,000,000 Employee Fraud Cases 1 $ 1,500,000 Total $ 849,500,000 The top six of our top ten fraud cases of 2015 are from California, a perennial offender. The other four cases are from New York, Washington, Utah, and Massachusetts. As we continue to discover each year, non-employee fraud cases [...]
Despite what the media portray, workers' comp fraud is extremely rare. Today's post comes from guest author Charlie Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Workers are not “getting rich” from worker’s compensation! Accordingly, fraudulent behavior in work comp is very rare—like the one bad apple spoiling the bunch—but often highly publicized. (Because, let’s face it, seeing [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Kit Case, from Causey Law Firm.A Mason County, WA roofing contractor faces a criminal charge for allegedly failing to provide workers'’ compensation insurance for his employees while they were on the job. The Washington State Attorney General’s office has charged Peter Daniel Yeaman, 55, with unregistered contracting and doing [...]
