Corporate fraud is a major problem in the workers' compensation system.Today's guest post authored by David Depaola is shared from http://daviddepaolo.blogspot.com and highlights a very serious problem with the nation'a workers' compensation system.
What do Oklahoma, New York, Washington, Kentucky and Florida have in common?
If it's workers' compensation, then the connection is a far reaching scheme involving millions of dollars, failed insurance companies and professional employer organizations. A federal grand jury in New York back in October 2012 indicted Wilbur Anthony Huff, principal behind a couple of professional employer organizations, Matthew Morris, Park Avenue Bank's former senior vice president, and Allen Reichman, the former director of investments at New York investment house Oppenheimer & Co. that Huff and Morris engaged with former bank president and Chief Executive Officer Charles Antonucci in an elaborate conspiracy to plunder Park Avenue Property and Casualty, formerly known as Providence Property and Casualty Insurance Co., and its subsidiary, Imperial Casualty and Indemnity, and artificially inflate the bank's assets to secure funding from the federal Troubled Asset Relief Program. U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said in a press release that Huff, who secretly controlled South Florida PEOs O2HR and Certified HR Services, was at the "vortex of fraud" in a series of schemes involving more than $100... |
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