DEPUTY ARRESTED OVER COMP CLAIM.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer A Lost Hills/Malibu sheriff's station deputy was arrested Thursday in the law enforcement agency's first workers' compensation workers' compensation, payment by employers for some part of the cost of injuries, or in some cases of occupational diseases, received by employees in the course of their work. fraud case in more than a decade, officials said Thursday. State Department of Insurance investigators arrested Deputy Robert Michael Dr. Robert Michael is an American historian. He currently is Professor Emeritus of European History at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, where he has taught about the Holocaust for nearly thirty years. Justin on Thursday on one felony count of grand theft and five felony counts of insurance fraud. He was booked at Twin Towers Correctional Facility The Twin Towers Correctional Facility, also referred to in the media as Twin Towers Jail, is a complex erected in Los Angeles, California to house inmates of the Los Angeles County Courts. It is the world’s largest jail. on $30,000 bail. If convicted, he faces up to five years in prison. The most recent arrest of a sheriff's deputy on a workers' compensation fraud claim occurred in 1987 when a deputy off work because of an injury was caught dancing at a Chippendales all-male road show in Atlantic City Atlantic City, city (1990 pop. 37,986), Atlantic co., SE N.J., an Atlantic resort and convention center; settled c.1790, inc. 1854. Situated on Absecon Island, a barrier island 10 mi (16. . Justin originally filed a workers' compensation claim June 4, 2001, after suffering a knee injury June 2 during an off-duty flag football practice in anticipation of law enforcement Police Olympics games, Deputy District Attorney Ephraim Ray Turner said. Sheriff's deputies participate in boxing, football, soccer, basketball, boxing and golf compete with other law enforcement agency Noun 1. law enforcement agency - an agency responsible for insuring obedience to the laws FBI, Federal Bureau of Investigation - a federal law enforcement agency that is the principal investigative arm of the Department of Justice sports teams during the annual Police Olympics games. The claim was denied because off-duty injuries are generally not covered not covered Health care adjective Referring to a procedure, test or other health service to which a policy holder or insurance beneficiary is not entitled under the terms of the policy or payment system–eg, Medicare. Cf Covered. by workers' compensation, Turner said. Then, more than a week later, Justin filed a second claim alleging he injured his right knee June 2 when he parked an all-terrain vehicle and was struck by another ATV (1) (Advanced TV) An early name for the digital TV standard proposed by the Advisory Committee on Advanced Television Service (ACATS). See ACATS. See also ATV Forum. (2) (Analog TV) Refers to the NTSC, PAL and SECAM analog TV standads. driven by another deputy, Turner said. ``It's our position that the injury he filed the job-related workers' compensation claim on was actually sustained when he was practicing flag football,'' Turner said. ``That injury was not covered under the sheriff's workers' compensation policy.'' Since 1996-97, the Sheriff's Department workers' compensation costs have risen 119 percent from $39 million to a record $86 million in 2001-02. On average, about 700 of the department's more than 16,000 employees are off the job on workers' compensation claims on any given day. Tom Higgins, head deputy of the District Attorney's Workers' Compensation Fraud Division, said his office has been cracking down on Los Angeles city, county, Metropolitan Transportation Authority and Los Angeles Unified School District The Los Angeles Unified School District (the "LAUSD") is the largest (in terms of number of students) public school system in California and the second-largest in the United States. Only the New York City Department of Education has a larger student population. employees who commit fraud. ``I think it shows a commitment by the Sheriff's Department and our office that we are serious, and even law enforcement officers, if they commit fraud, they are going down,'' Higgins said. The Sheriff's Department's workers' compensation costs have come under scrutiny in the past two years, and county officials have released reports showing that deputies have reaped benefits even when they were injured in off-duty sports such as skydiving skydiving Sport of jumping from an airplane at a moderate altitude (e.g., 6,000 ft [1,800 m]) and executing various body maneuvers before pulling the rip cord of a parachute. Competitive events include jumping for style, landing with accuracy, and performing in teams (e.g. , rodeo events and off-road vehicle racing. Sheriff's Risk Management Bureau Lt. Scott Johnson said the department brought the case to the District Attorney's Office and the Department of Insurance after suspecting that fraud might have been involved in the second claim. ``It's an unfortunate circumstance,'' Johnson said. ``We don't want to see any of our deputies being arrested for anything. If the facts bear out that he was defrauding the state, then shame on him.'' |
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