SAN BERNARDINO- On November 16, 2015, Valentino H. Douglas, 45, of Rialto, was arrested on multiple counts of felony insurance fraud after receiving more than $112,000 in workers’ compensation benefits for an alleged work injury that actually occurred a month earlier while playing softball, according to California Department of Insurance detectives. While employed as a […]
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Sacramento Pair Sentenced for Workers’ compensation Fraud
SACRAMENTO- On September 10, 2015, a Sacramento man, Michael George Mello Jr., 37, and his sister, Mary Catherine Rodriguez, 38, pleaded no contest and were sentenced for workers’ compensation insurance fraud and tax evasion. For three years, the two owners of Sacramento-based Green Valley Landscaping Services, committed workers’ compensation insurance premium fraud by significantly underreporting […]
Vacaville Contractor Convicted of Workers’ Comp Fraud
WOODLAND – April 21, 2015, Gregory Rudolph, 57, of Vacaville was convicted of Workers’ Compensation Fraud and sentenced to three years informal probation. In September of 2014, Rudolph went to a client’s home to perform electrical work. Although Rudolph was licensed by the Contractors State License Board (CSLB) , he did not have any workers’ […]
Restaurant Worker Arrested For Double Dipping
A Los Angeles restaurant worker, receiving workers’ compensation benefits for alleged injuries that happened to him while working in a commercial kitchen, was arrested after investigators discovered he was working at two restaurants performing the very type of work he told his doctor he could not. Fernando Gallegos, 43, received $8,890 in workers’ compensation benefits […]
Humboldt County Business Owner Busted
A Humboldt County business owner was arrested June 24, 2014 on felony charges of workers’ compensation insurance fraud and grand theft. A joint investigation by California Department of Insurance detectives and the Humboldt County District Attorney’s Office uncovered multiple crimes. Tim Shelley, 57, owner of Tim’s Plumbing was arrested for failing to obtain workers’ compensation […]
FIVE CHARGED IN MULTIMILLION DOLLAR WORKERS’ COMP AND PAYROLL FRAUD CASE
RIVERSIDE – Five owners, operators and employees of United Paving and Prestige Striping, a Corona-based paving company, have been charged in a case involving wage theft, premium fraud, workers’ compensation fraud, and payroll fraud. “These suspects are accused of crimes that allowed them to gain approximately $4 million dollars,” said Alan Barcelona, president of the […]
How Do Cheaters Scam Workers’ Compensation?
Intensified efforts to fight workers’ compensation fraud in Southern California Californians receiving Workers’ Compensation through fraudulent means should take note, California Department of Insurance (CDI) investigators have focused their well-trained eyes on these suspected felons and their investigations are resulting in arrests, prosecutions, prison-time and retribution. “Much of the focus has been in Southern California […]
Workers’ Comp Fraud – Fresno Business Owner Sentenced to Prison
FRESNO – Richard Lopez Escamilla Jr. 47, was sentenced in Kings County Superior Court on December 4, 2013 to six years in prison for one felony count of insurance fraud. He was also ordered to pay restitution of nearly $4.2 million to the State Compensation Insurance Fund and SeaBright Insurance. As part of a plea […]
