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Former Nurse's Aide Charged With Comp Fraud

24 March, 2009 01:12:00 compnewsnetwork
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image Potential future savings on her claim estimated to be $40,239

New York, NY (CompNewsNetwork) - A former nursing home employee from Tioga County has been charged with workers’ compensation fraud for allegedly obtaining $8,858 from the New York State Insurance Fund illegally.

Susan Thornton, 49, of Spencer, NY, faces felony charges of violating the Workers’ Compensation Law and offering a false instrument for filing following her arrest by the New York State Police and NYS Insurance Frauds Bureau on March 10.

Investigators from NYSIF’s Division of Confidential Investigations said Ms. Thornton began receiving workers’ compensation benefits for a back injury she reported in 1993 after attempting to lift a patient while she was employed as a nurse’s aide at the Oak Hill Manor Nursing Home in Ithaca, NY, in Tompkins County.

Investigators said Ms. Thornton returned signed statements to NYSIF indicating she had not returned to any form of work. In an attempt to obtain a lump sum settlement of her claim, Ms. Thornton also stated that she had not performed any work or received compensation from any employment since her injury, investigators said.

During the investigation, assisted by the Insurance Dept. Frauds Bureau and the Office of the Workers’ Compensation Board Fraud Inspector General, it is alleged that Ms. Thornton was self-employed cleaning houses, while receiving wage replacement benefits to which she was not entitled totaling $8,858.
 
As a result of her arrest, NYSIF estimated the potential future savings on Ms. Thornton’s claim to be $40,239.

Criminal complaints and indictments are accusations only. Defendants are presumed innocent until proven guilty.

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Comments (3 posted):

kim on 25 March, 2009 12:21:47
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Well only thing I can say here is when your injuried you do not get your full wages at all. but your bills have to be paid and nobody care about you.
We need our full wages! What you get is half of your wages in which is horrible! If they give them too you and when they decide they are.
There are a lot of people who has to do something to pay their bills.
So can't say what is right here. But our laws need changed to help us. We don't ask to get hurt it happens and this job is a lcause major back injury. Permanet injuries that is.
kims a moron on 25 March, 2009 12:50:14
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Idiot. You are so polluted and corrupt that you excuse outright fraud, without seeing that it is the reason legitimate injureds have to jump through so many hoops. Go take your meds, moron. Next time try to make a post that has some relevance to the topic.
No excuses on 26 March, 2009 01:28:48
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Kim. you stated "We need our full wages! What you get is half of your wages in which is horrible! "

That is incorrect. Most states pay 60-70 percent of your gross average wages and that is because there are no taxes taken out.

And fraud is fraud. No excuses!

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