Tagged in: staffing/PEO

Staffing Execs Indicted for Tax and Workers’ Comp Fraud

Federal officials filed an eight-count federal indictment naming seven staffing industry executives as defendants. The case alleges a scheme to pocket payroll taxes from client employers and workers, and to cheat workers’ comp carriers out of premium. Proceeds from the $90 million scheme allegedly went toward buying real estate, luxury cars, expensive vacations, and other … Read More »

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Agreements Resolve State’s Cases Against BaronHR Officials

The former head of BaronHR appeared virtually  in Orange County Superior Court last week and pleaded guilty to state charges of workers’ compensation fraud and employment tax fraud. Under an agreement, certain felony counts against Luis Perez were reduced to misdemeanors. He also agreed to pay full restitution and was sentenced to a year in … Read More »

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Acrisure Sues SUNZ Holdings

The package sale of a managing general agency (MGA) and a third-party administrator (TPA) by Sunz Holdings to Acrisure LLC in 2021 is now spawning litigation between the parties. The deal, according to court documents, was valued at hundreds of millions of dollars. In the deal, Acrisure acquired  Next Level Administrators, a third-party administrator, a … Read More »

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Staffing Company Fights Collateral Demand

A Florida-based staffing company with extensive operations in California’s light industrial and factory settings is asking a federal district court in California’s Central District to block a $51 million demand for collateral on its workers’ comp policy. Full Steam Staffing filed the complaint earlier this month, alleging that Chubb Limited retaliated against it for ending … Read More »

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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 »

Staffing Company Goes To CDI In Collateral Dispute

Personnel Staffing Group (PSG) and XL Insurance will be fighting through a $42.5 million dispute over a large deductible workers’ comp program before the California Department of Insurance’s Administrative Hearing Bureau. The agency is holding an evidentiary hearing next month to determine if the carrier is attempting to enforce the terms of the program’s unfiled … Read More »

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Court Says Worker’s Malpractice Complaint Untimely

In a case that demonstrates how many ways a workers’ comp claim can go, the Sixth District Court of Appeal says an injured worker who allegedly sustained additional injuries from the medical treatment she received under her workers’ comp claim failed to file her medical malpractice complaint in a timely manner. The court upheld the … Read More »

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