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Man Sentenced for Workers’ Comp Fraud Must Pay $26.4K to Texas Mutual

A man sentenced for workers’ compensation fraud must repay Texas Mutual Insurance Co. more than $26,000, a Travis County district court said. According to Texas Mutual, Ricky Allen Martinez of Sugar Land, Texas, reported a job-related injury while working as …

Texas Mutual to Distribute $330M in Policyholder Dividends

Workers’ compensation insurer Texas Mutual Insurance Co. announced plans to distribute $330 million in dividends to policyholders in 2019. The dividends will be distributed to over 55,000 business owners, who are policyholder owners of the company, in late June. Texas …

4K Texas Businesses Share $3M in Early Qualifier Dividends from Texas Mutual

Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., has paid more than $3 million in early qualifier dividends to approximately 4,000 newer policyholder owners across the state. This payout is the final component of the company’s $280 million record dividend …

Texas Mutual Grants $100K to Houston Construction Trade Training Center

Workers’ compensation carrier Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has awarded a $100,000 grant to the nonprofit Construction Career Collaborative (C3) to strengthen the skilled craft workforce in the Greater Houston region. C3 is a nonprofit alliance of owners, general contractors, specialty …

Texas Woman Sentenced for ‘Double Dipping’ on Workers’ Comp

A New Braunfels, Texas, woman must perform community service and pay more than $7,000 in restitution after being sentenced on workers’ compensation fraud charges. Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that Carolina Villanueva was sentenced in a Travis County district court …

Texas Mutual, UT Dallas Partner on Risk Control, Safety Engineering Class

Workers’ compensation provider, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., is partnering with The University of Texas at Dallas’ (UT Dallas) Naveen Jindal School of Management for a brand-new Risk Control and Safety Engineering class. This course is currently exclusive to UT Dallas …

Texas Nurse Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud Charges

Texas Mutual Insurance Co. has reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Kaydra Moore of Cedar Hill, Texas. on workers’ compensation fraud charges. The court sentenced Moore to a Class A misdemeanor with one year deferred adjudication. She will …

Texas Mutual Announces 2 Workers’ Comp Fraud Convictions

Texas Mutual Insurance Co. recently announced that Marcos Ricoy of Harlingen, Texas and Enrique Colon of Deer Park, Texas, pleaded no contest to a felony charge of engaging in organized criminal activity involving workers’ compensation healthcare fraud. The convictions are …

Texas Attorney Charged with Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County grand jury has indicted attorney Leslie Casaubon of Lewisville, Texas, on three counts of workers’ compensation fraud-related charges The indictment alleges that, from 2010 to 2014, Casaubon billed …

Frakes, Texas Mutual’s Third Employee, Retires

Terry Frakes has retired from Austin-based workers’ compensation insurer, Texas Mutual Insurance Co., after more than 25 years of service to the company. Frakes was Texas Mutual’s third employee after it was created by the Texas Legislature in 1991 (then …