Furniture Assembler Charged With Workers' Comp Fraud After Making Facebook Posts

A Connecticut furniture assembler has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud after an investigation by the chief state attorney’s workers’ compensation fraud unit, Connecticut’s Division of Criminal Justice announced this week. The unit accuses Rickey Flowers, 44, of posting on Facebook that he was available to perform cleaning and carpentry services despite claiming on workers’ compensation paperwork that he was too injured to work. Flowers was injured in March 2017 while lifting an armoire at the Torrington furniture manufacturer where he worked. He all...