Business Owner Owes BWC $100,000 for Fraud

The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation announced that a man who failed to disclose he was the owner of a company while receiving temporary disability benefits was ordered to pay $100,000 in restitution. Thomas Tomson started a new business, Bulldog Services, where he worked and received income while collecting permanent total disability benefits, the BWC said. The company was later sold and operated under the name Kirk’s Business, and Thomson continued to work there. “Both businesses provided the same services as the employer of record for Tomson’s BWC claims, T.H.E...