The California Department of Insurance announced that three people associated with a trucking business in Fresno were arraigned Tuesday on four felony counts each for their alleged involvement in a scheme to reduce their workers’ compensation premiums by underreporting $2.5 million in payroll.
The department said it opened an investigation after receiving a tip that a worker at a Fresno-area trucking firm owned by Karamjit Nijjar, 57, was denied comp benefits. The investigation, in partnership with the Central Valley Workers’ Compensation Fraud Task Force, identified another busin...
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