Posted on January 4, 2008 by David McCranie

Department of Financial Services Issues Annual Report on WC Fraud

Section 626.989(9), Fla. Stat., directs the Department of Financial Services to prepare an annual "joint performance report" to the legislature on workers' compensation fraud by January 1 of each year.  The Department has now issued its report covering the period 7/1/2006 through 6/30/2007, which you can read here. 

 

Among the statistics: 184 convictions for workers' compensation fraud consisting of claimant fraud (58), working without workers' compensation insurance (65), premium fraud (13), fraudulent certificate of insurance (29), identity theft (1), grand theft (10), and violation of stop work order (8).

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