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Monday, September 6
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Workers' Compensation Fraud
The Attorney General's Office is teaming up with the Alabama Department of Industrial Relations to find and prosecute Workers' Compensation Fraud.
Our offices have created a toll-free fraud hotline for concerned citizens to report this crime at 1-800-923-2533. You can also call the Attorney General's Investigation Division directly at (334) 242-7345. Phone calls received through the Fraud Hotline or directly at the AG's Office are investigated and, when necessary, appropriate action taken to inform employers or insurance carriers.
Workers' Compensation Fraud is STEALING!
The legislature passed the Workers' Compensation Fraud Bill, April 1994, AL Act 1994-653, Code of Alabama, 1975, Section 13A-11-124, which makes it a Class "C" felony for any person making a fraudulent claim of injury to receive compensation (punishable by a fine of up to $5,000.00 and a jail term of one to ten years).
Five Types of Workers' Compensation Fraud:
- Agent Fraud
- Employer Fraud
- Employee Fraud
- Medical Fraud
- Legal Fraud
What are some examples of Workers' Compensation Fraud?
- Reporting an off the job accident as an on the job accident
- Reporting an accident that never happened
- Complaints of accident injury symptons that are exaggerated or non-existent
- Malingering - to avoid work when injuries are healed
- Not reporting outside income from other work-related activities while drawing workers' compensation benefits from another employer
- Making false or fraudulent statements for the purpose of obtaining workers' compensation benefits
TO REPORT WORKERS' COMPENSATION FRAUD CALL
1-800-923-2533
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