BWC Announces Last Fraud Convictions of 2017, First of 2018

The owner of a Northeast Ohio cleaning company was ordered to serve 30 days of house arrest and pay $14,000 in restitution after she pleaded guilty to three counts of workers’ compensation fraud earlier this month. The Ohio Bureau of Workers’ Compensation’s special investigations department announced Amanda Joy Klapp’s sentencing on Friday. Jim Wernecke, head of the special investigations department, said Klapp cheated BWC “in a number of ways”: After failing to purchase necessary workers’ compensation coverage for Amanda Joy’s Cleaning Co. for...