Injured Worker Who Runs Dog-Training Business Accused of Fraud

A Pleasant Glen woman was charged on Wednesday with running a dog-training business for more than five years while collecting workers’ compensation indemnity benefits from a workplace injury at another employer, the New York State inspector general announced. Elizabeth McKeon is accused of collecting more than $100,00 in workers’ comp benefits while claiming she was unable to work as a result of a 2007 workplace injury she sustained as a field technician for Verizon Wireless. McKeon was classified as permanently partially disabled as a result of the injury. But in late 2010...