Trucker's Full Court Press Leads to Fraud Conviction

A trucker must repay a carrier $64,645 in benefits after a private investigator videotaped him regularly shooting jump shots and practicing lay-ups at the local gymnasium, according to a California appellate court ruling.The 4th District Court of Appeal affirmed a trial court's conviction of a trucker on three counts of workers' compensation fraud and three counts of perjury, after private investigators observed him doing a number of things that proved he was malingering. Andrew Henderson worked as a truck driver for a company that sold and delivered construction materials. He sideswip...