Workers Comp and Disabilities Fraud

There are many reasons why people tend to hide the truth. Carmen Hall Soruco, 70, and her husband Antonio Soruco, 75, both of Novato, Calif., hid the truth about their workers compensation fraud scheme because they wanted to avoid being punished and be rewarded...

Anurag Dass a.k.a. Anna Dass, 49, of Houston, Tex., used her clinic, A&A Pain and Wellness Center Inc. to carry out an illegal kickback and money laundering scheme. Anna Dass’ brother, Anukul “Andy” Dass, 44, and Stephen Vincent Hunt,70, helped her to steal $9.1...

A Glendale, Calif., man was sentenced to five years in federal prison and ordered to pay a massive restitution fee for his involvement in a $250 million scam that defrauded the California Workers’ Compensation System. Sam Sarkis Solakyan, 40, who was the CEO of...

The New York Workers’ Compensation Board requires virtually all employers in the state to provide workers’ compensation coverage for their employees. Consolidated NY Services, Inc. of Brooklyn kind of complied with that requirement, but the labor broker neglected to provide a few key details...

Unlicensed insurance agents are not allowed to engage in the sale, solicitation, or negotiation of insurance, but that didn’t stop Costa Mesa, Calif. resident Karyl Lynn Reed from allegedly collecting insurance premiums on nonexistent workers’ compensation policies. The 57-year-old supposedly defrauded multiple businesses out...

Announcing VULNERABILITY ALERTS This is the first of our Fraud of the Day “Vulnerability Alerts,” bringing new trends in government fraud to our subscribers. According to the state of California Employment Development Department (EDD), which oversees claims for both unemployment and disability benefits, there has been...

California’s State Compensation Insurance Fund (SCIF) was created to provide fairly-priced workers’ compensation insurance for entrepreneurs, make the workplace safe, and restore injured workers. (Today’s fraudsters must have thought the agency’s mission was solely to increase the size of their bank accounts.) Brother and...

The hazards of working in a shipyard are many. While shipyard workers may have a fantastic view of the water, they don’t exactly have a corner office with glass walls. A fall from a very tall ship could cause serious injury, or even death....

A lot of fraudsters who try to scam workers’ compensation programs get caught while working out in the gym. (It’s hard to lie when there’s footage of you lifting heavy weights when you’re supposedly injured.) Kelly M. Gersbacher, 45, of Mattydale, N.Y., was caught...

Can you imagine what it feels like to cash $3.3 million in checks? Argyrios “Eric” Mavros, 57, knows what that feels like. And he knows what if feels like to plead guilty to tax fraud and workers compensation fraud. (That’s probably not a feeling...