The Ohio Bureau of Workers' Compensation secured eight fraud convictions in August, bringing this year's total convictions to 100, the agency announced Friday.
August's convictions involved claimants, employers and a health care provider.
Among them:
Claimants
Mark Cothern, of Danville, admitted to working at a drive-in ice cream parlor in town while collecting temporary total disability benefits.
Cothern's 180-day jail sentence on a charge of attempted workers' compensation fraud was suspended for three years of community control.
He was ordered to repay BWC $9,406.46...
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