Business Owner Ordered to Pay Nearly $3k in Premium Fraud Case

A Northern California business owner was ordered to pay nearly $3,000 in restitution after pleading no contest to defrauding his insurance carrier by paying an employee off the books, the Monterey County District Attorney’s Office announced. The court accepted the no-contest plea by John Bresciani, owner and CEO of Pacific Coast Battery Service Inc., on Wednesday. Bresciani was ordered to pay $2,943.44 in restitution for premiums that would have been owed had he reported his employee. He was also ordered to pay a $5,000 fine and placed on probation for three years. Prosecutors sai...