Jacksonville Arrest Record Details Off-the-Books Payments

Records released in connection with this week's arrest of a Jacksonville, Fla., subcontractor facing a workers' compensation fraud charge provide an inside glimpse of how the construction industry may be skirting workers' compensation laws and leaving some injured workers without coverage.Officials with the state Department of Financial Services and a statewide grand jury probing check-cashing houses have warned that the state's construction industry has become rife with increasingly complex schemes that provide coverage for a few workers while keeping the bulk of some subcontr...