Texas Company Guilty Of Workers’ Comp Fraud
- The Texas Department of Insurance, Division of Workers’ Compensation (TDI-DWC) announce that Trinity Couriers, a delivery company, pled guilty to obtaining workers’ comp coverage under false pretenses.
- The company admitted to underreporting its payroll to Texas Mutual Insurance Company between 2016 and 2018.
- As part of the plea agreement, the company will pay Texas Mutual $800,000 in restitution.
- Trinity Couriers shares common ownership under Mike Miller of Miller Transportation Management, but this was never disclosed to the carrier.
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- Attorneys for a first-grade teacher who was shot by one of her students delivered closing arguments in her $40 million civil case.
- The plaintiff, Abby Zwerner, alleges that the school’s assistant principal at the time committed gross negligence by failing to act on reports that the child had a gun.
- The lawsuit also alleges that the assistant principal, Ebony Parker, prevented staff from searching the student.
- Zwerner was shot in her classroom.
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