Settlements in State Fund RICO Case Worth at Least $8.2 Million

By Greg Jones, Western Bureau ChiefThe California State Compensation Insurance Fund entered three settlements worth a total of $8.28 million with Michael R. Drobot Jr. to resolve disputes about what it now says were fraudulently inflated bills, court documents show.The settlements were filed with the U.S. District Court for Central California as exhibits in a dispute over the scope of a proposed deposition of the State Fund attorney who approved the agreements. Attorneys for Drobot Jr. want to depose former State Fund Complex Litigation Unit attorney Robert Wilson about the settlements and whe...