05/04/21
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Sacramento, CA (WorkersCompensation.com) - Brooke Gomez, 29, of Maxwell, was convicted and sentenced on one misdemeanor count of workers compensation insurance fraud after she claimed to be too injured to work in order to collect workers compensation benefits while working for another employer.
Gomez pleaded no contest to the misdemeanor charge and was sentenced in Colusa County Superior Court on April 26, 2021. She was placed on 12 months summary probation and ordered to pay $6,000 in restitution and $630 in fines.
On August 14, 2019, while working as a rice grader, Gomez sustained an abdominal injury while lifting bags of rice. Following her injury, a workers compensation claim was filed with her employer s insurance company and Gomez began receiving workers compensation payments.
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Today’s retirees face many obstacles, from an unpredictable market to a lack of guaranteed income in retirement. While these are important challenges to address, they would be remiss to ignore their future tax burdens. We’ll likely see increased taxes in the future, and this will affect today’s retirees more than tax increases have affected retirees in the past.
Retirement Then vs. Now
Today’s retirees are the first IRA generation: Whereas previous generations could primarily rely on Social Security benefits and pensions to cover their retirement expenses, many of today’s retirees find themselves having to fund a much larger portion of their retirement through their own pre-tax retirement accounts. And while retirement accounts such as 401(k)s and IRAs have significant benefits, they also come with downsides, namely that all of the withdrawals in retirement are taxable as ordinary income at the current tax rates in our country.
California AG warns about misleading claims by healthcare sharing ministry plans
Fresno Bee 5/4/2021 Yesenia Amaro, The Fresno Bee
May 4 California Attorney General Rob Bonta issued a consumer alert warning state residents about sham health insurance plans offered by some healthcare sharing ministries, following complaints received by his office.
The alert asks consumers to immediately file a complaint with the Attorney General s Office if they believe they may have been victimized or were targeted by suspicious marketing by a healthcare sharing ministry.
The move follows a March 2020 cease-and-desist order by the California Department of Insurance against Aliera Healthcare, Inc., and its subsidiary Trinity HealthShare, to get the companies to stop doing business in the state after misleading consumers.
Ex-Lake Forest insurance broker accused of taking payments but leaving clients uninsured
Orange County Register (CA)
Apr. 30 A former
Lake Forest insurance broker charged this week with more than 90 felony counts after authorities say she collected payments from 32 customers over eight years yet left them uninsured, the
California Department of Insurance said.
Karen Marie Dondanville, 53, of Mission Viejo faces dozens of charges including grand theft, insurance fraud, financial elder abuse, and forgery.
She was arrested on
Monday, April 26, she pleaded not guilty to or denied the counts.
Authorities say her scheme resulted in her collecting
$183,047 in stolen premium payments.
Insurance department authorities received multiple complaints from customers about Dondanville while she was doing business under the names
California Department Of Insurance Echoes Black Swan s Call For Transparency In Wildfire Risk Assessment
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LOS ANGELES, April 30, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Since its launch, Black Swan Analytics has advocated for consumers in wildfire areas who have been displaced by their insurance carrier because of either real or perceived wildfire risk. Today, Wildfire Community Preparedness Day, spurs enthusiasm for the recent proposal by the California Department of Insurance to provide greater transparency around wildfire risk ratings: The transparency contained in the new rules proposed by Commissioner Lara are vital to the true mission of Black Swan Analytics, which is to mitigate wildfire risk, stated Tammy Nichols Schwartz, Black Swan Analytics founder. Without this transparency, consumers lose. They lose their right to dispute any incorrect data and to understand the source(s) of their wildfire risk. They lose the ability to mit