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Published July 20, 2021

Landscaping Worker Sentenced For Worker’s Compensation Insurance Fraud After Lying About Injury

Angel Luis Maces, 24, of San Jacinto, pleaded guilty to one count of felony workers’ compensation insurance fraud after a months-long investigation by the Department of Insurance (DOI). Maces had been employed by a landscaping company in Temecula, and claimed to have injured his knee when he slipped and fell, subsequently needing a cane or crutches 100% of the time.

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Published June 23, 2021

Liens From Vital Imaging And Others Stayed Pending Workers’ Compensation Kickback Fraud Trial

Liens filed by Vital Imaging, San Diego MRI Institute, and Empire Radiology are stayed pursuant to section 4615 of the Labor Code, which places an automatic stay on liens filed by the associated entities charged with fraud. Federal prosecutors are pursuing charges of conspiracy to commit healthcare fraud, and multiple counts of honest services mail fraud, in a kickback scheme that they allege to have generated almost $300 million in charges stemming from illegal referrals and kickbacks.

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Published June 2, 2021

Law Firm Employees, Vocational School Owners Among Seven Indicted In Workers’ Compensation Insurance Fraud Case

The defendants, including two law firm employees, face allegations that they conspired to misuse and misappropriate Supplemental Job Displacement Benefit vouchers, defrauding 20 separate insurers of over $330,000, in part with illegal kickbacks.

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Published July 30, 2021

California Division of Workers’ Compensation Copy Service Price Schedule Amendment Gets Hearing Date

The California Department of Industrial Relations (DIR) Division of Workers’ Compensation (DWC) has set a public hearing for Monday, August 30th, 2021, at 10:00am, to amend the Copy Service Price Schedule. The proposed changes stand to significantly increase costs for medical-legal reports.

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Published July 22, 2021

Join Joanne Thomas for “Obtain Legally. Leverage Wisely.” as part of the Worker’s Compensation Insitute (WCI) Annual Conference

SRTK Shareholder Joanne Thomas will speak as part of the panel “Obtain Legally, Leverage Wisely: Investigation of Claims, 2021 and Beyond” on Tuesday, December 14th, 10:00AM – 11:00AM Eastern. The panel will cover tricks of the trade, as well as potential pitfalls in evidence gathering, as well as strategies for presenting surveillance to medical providers and using evidence in depositions to defend claims.

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Published July 19, 2021

Kathleen Roberts Earns Take Nothing In Trucker Case Alleging Psychiatric Injury Over Epithet

Kathleen Roberts, Managing Shareholder of SRTK’s San Jose office, recently earned a take nothing in a case involving a trucker who claimed a psychiatric injury following an incident involving an alleged racial slur. The claimant sought an estimated $40,000 in retroactive TTD over 18 months, and would have included an unknown percentage of PD, which had not yet been evaluated.

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