Business Owners Arraigned on Fraud Charges

The California Department of Insurance announced that three business owners were arraigned on charges that they conspired to illegally lower their workers’ compensation premiums by more than $125,000. Troy Williams, 49, owned and operated a framing business called Archer Building Co. John Allison, an Archer employee, created Allison Development in 2016. For the next four years, Archer diverted its carpentry payroll to Allison Development to avoid paying accurate premiums, the department said. In 2020, Allison Development’s comp policy was canceled and the workers transferred bac...