LA MTA Coordinates Program with DA vs. Fraud

The Los Angeles Times in the Saturday, 8/24 edition, section B, ran a story highlighting new strategies being taken by the Los Angeles Metropolitan Transportation Agency (MTA) to grapple with what has been reported as workers' compensation costs that are the highest in the nation for any transportation agency. Focusing in particular on fraud, the MTA has coordinated a program with the district attorney's office to deter employees from making false claims and urging them to turn in colleagues who fake injuries.The Times says that Tom Higgins, who heads the DA's workers' compensation fraud bure...