A Video Explaining Common Employee Fraud Allegations
An employee fabricates an injury altogether, or exaggerates a legitimate injury, in order to continue to receive benefits or more time off work.
Multiple Claims/Identities:
An employee may make injury claims and receive payments from both their workers’ compensation carrier as well as a personal healthcare provider (double-dipping). Individuals may also file multiple claims with different employers, and may use different names or social security numbers to conceal their claims history.
Malingering
Common Employer Fraud Allegations
Common Service Provider Fraud Allegations
Common Employee fraud Allegations
The seminal decision interpreting California Insurance Code section 1871.5 is Tensfeldt v. Workers' Comp. Appeals Bd. (1998) 66 Cal.App.4th 116 (Tensfeldt). There, a city employee falsely claimed he injured his knee when he got out of a city truck; he actually injured his knee while playing basketball. (Id. at p. 119.) Tensfeldt was convicted of workers' compensation insurance fraud. While the criminal matter was pending, Tensfeldt filed a second workers' compensation claim, alleging the true circumstances of the knee injury, that was the subject of his false claim.
The Tensfeldt decision rejected the notion that Insurance Code section 1871.5 should be interpreted to completely bar workers convicted of workers' compensation insurance fraud (Ins. Code, § 1871.4) "from forever receiving or retaining any workers' compensation benefits connected with a claim for an otherwise legitimate industrial injury, without regard for the specific facts of the case." Nonetheless, the court held employee Tensfeldt was barred from receiving any benefits because he lied about the very fact of compensability.
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