Employer Guilty of Misclassification Must Pay Restitution

A California appellate court upheld a restitution order against an employer who admittedly underreported his company's payroll in order to secure a lower comp premium. Case: People v. Riddles, No. D069419, 03/23/2017, published. Facts: John Riddles ran a company called Confident Care between 2005 until 2009. Confident Care was a staffing agency that placed nurses at residential care and skilled-nursing facilities. Riddles obtained a workers' compensation insurance policy from First Comp Insurance to cover Confident Care's employees for 2007 to 2008. In obtaining this policy, R...