Box Plant Managers May Avoid Jail in WC Fraud Case

The attorney for one of the two former managers of a box manufacturing company in Salinas, Calif., said his clients should avoid jail time when they are sentenced today for their involvement in a workers' compensation fraud case.David Polk and Douglas Tateoka, who worked for Smurfit-Stone Container Corp., pleaded no contest in March to charges of concealing events related to on-the-job injuries and conspiring to deny injured workers their benefits. Michael D. Lawrence, the lawyer representing Polk, told the Monterey County Herald he expects the men to be sentenced to a maximum of 40 hours ...