Workers Compensation Fraud Attorneys

Every year, workers’ compensation fraud costs insurance companies millions of dollars, and subsequently, these costs trickle down to employers in the form of higher premiums.

Workers’ compensation fraud happens when employees knowingly lie to collect benefits. A worker may claim an injury was work-related when it wasn’t, exaggerate an injury, or secretly continue working while collecting benefits.  Signs of an employee possibly committing workers’ compensation fraud include employees who are hard to contact (the employee may be working another job while collecting benefits. This practice, called “double-dipping,” constitutes fraud), a new employee who suddenly gets “injured” within his or her probationary period, an employee who becomes injured without any witnesses around and cannot form a clear explanation as to how the injury occurred, and an employee who tells varying accounts of an accident; i.e. describing the situation differently to an employer and a doctor.

It is easier to prevent workers’ compensation fraud than it is to prove it. Therefore, it’s important for employers to focus on workplace safety as to reduce the chance of accidents and the opportunity for someone to fake an injury.