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Employer Wins Judgment Against Illegal MEWA

A Fresno-area restaurant that state officials cited for operating without workers’ compensation coverage after it thought it had purchased supposedly valid coverage from American Labor Alliance settled for $315,082.19. The stipulated judgment was entered just days before the case was to be heard by a jury. Fajita Fiesta secured the stipulated judgment in its lawsuit … Read More »

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MEWA Officials Sentenced

The architect of an illegal workers’ compensation program that also sold fake Affordable Care Act hardship exemptions and ran a fraudulent pension scheme received a five-year prison sentence, and the … Read More »

Precedent: Employer Held Liable For Bogus PEO

The California Labor Commissioner and the Division of Labor Standards Enforcement recently designated a decision as a precedent, upholding two citations against an employer for operating without workers’ comp coverage. … Read More »

CDI Cuts A Deal With Illegal MEWA

The California Department of Insurance and officials associated with the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) that operated as American Labor Alliance have agreed to settle the government’s case to collect … Read More »

More MEWA Developments

State and federal officials are continuing their efforts to hold accountable those behind the illegal multi-employer welfare arrangement (MEWA) operation that sold a purported alternative to actual workers’ comp coverage. … Read More »

MEWA Fraud Verdict – Finally

Five years after a federal indictment was handed down and nearly eight years after state officials first ordered an illegal workers’ comp program to cease and desist operations, a jury … Read More »