Owner of Construction Firm Charged With Premium Fraud

The owner of a Florida construction company was arrested on charges that he reported only about 20% of his actual payroll in an alleged scheme that evaded about $74,000 in workers’ compensation premiums. Florida Chief Financial Officer Jimmy Patronis announced that Carlos Alberto Gomez-Ibarra, owner of Always Good Construction, was arrested Wednesday on a single charge of workers’ compensation premium fraud. Always Good Construction had more than $442,000 in payroll between October 2015 and August 2016, according to the statement. But Gomez-Ibarra allegedly reported annual payrol...