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Workers' Compensation Fraud

By Daniel J. Siegel
June 01, 2016

Most cases that involve fraud really are not fraud cases at all. Those are the situations in which one doctor examines a worker and concludes that he or she is fully recovered from whatever injuries he or she sustained, while another doctor ' usually a treating physician ' says that the worker remains symptomatic and is still not able to go back and perform the job he or she had when the injury occurred.

There is another side to fraud. That component deals with employers and insurance companies. For this reason, it is pleasing to see that prosecutors in Pennsylvania have targeted employers as well as employees who violate the Workers' Compensation Act.

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