Fraudster Must Repay All TTD Received After Investigators Spotted Him at Work

A California appellate court upheld a restitution order against a worker requiring that he repay his employer’s comp carrier for the entire amount of temporary total disability benefits he received after investigators discovered he had been working. Case: People v. Williams, No. C086000, 07/25/2018, unpublished. Facts and procedural history: Michael Williams received a sentence of three years’ formal probation after he pleaded no contest to insurance fraud. After his sentencing, Placer Superior Court Judge Garen Horst held a restitution hearing. At the hearing, the prosecutor s...