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, [...]
Today's post comes from Kristina Thompson, attorney at the Jernigan Law Firm. Do I need to buy workers' compensation insurance in North Carolina? Here's the general rule: in North Carolina, if you are an employer and regularly employ three or more employees, you must have workers' compensation insurance. Seems pretty straight forward, right? For such a [...]
Mylan CEO Heather Bresch testified before the House Oversight Committee about her company’s increase in the price of life-saving EpiPens by more than 500 percent since 2007. Today's post comes from guest author Jon Rehm, from Rehm, Bennett & Moore. This fall, most Americans were outraged at revelations that the price of life-saving EpiPens had [...]
Professor Leonard T. Jernigan Jr. has compiled a list of 2013's Top 10 Workers' Compensation Fraud Cases Employer Fraud Cases (9):$44,962,492.00 Employee Fraud Cases (1): $1,500,000.00 Total: $46,462,492.00 Every year we hear about fraud in Workers’ Compensation cases and the public believes the fraud is employee driven. However, in 2009 I began [...]
Today's post comes from guest author Tom Domer, from The Domer Law Firm.Republican legislators are feeling their oats these days. Throughout the Midwest, legislators are depriving workers' of collective bargaining rights and trying to restrict workers'’ rights in workers'’ compensation claims. In Missouri, workers'’ compensation legislation was recently proposed that would have permitted an employer [...]
Your private photos could be used against you by insurance companies. Today’s post comes from guest author Nathan Reckman from Paul McAndrew Law Firm.Recently, it seems as though everyone is connected through social networking sites such as Facebook and Twitter. These tools have become a great way to keep in touch with friends and family [...]
The News and Observer and Charlotte Observer have reported that nearly 30,000 employers in North Carolina may not have workers'’ compensation coverage, even though legislation requires them to have it in case a worker is injured on the job. Although there are stiff penalties and criminal sanctions (it is a Class H felony [...]
My colleague Jon Gelman shared this piece of news on his blog late last week. I am reprinting here, with his permission. Wifredo A. Ferrer, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Florida, John V. Gillies, Special Agent in Charge, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), Miami Field Office, and Dan Anderson, Director, Department of [...]
When we hear about workplace fraud, most of us think of a worker faking an injury to receive benefits that he or she does not deserve. While that kind of fraud does exist, it is minor compared to the big money lost to fraud from companies. The big money lost to fraud comes from companies, [...]
