This time he won’t be the one banging the gavel. A California judge used a sham company to scam the state out of thousands of dollars using fraudulent workers comp payments and a doctor banned from ...

Workers’ compensation retaliation claims have just one year from termination to file. Whistleblower retaliation claims under California Labor Code Section 1102.5 typically carry two-year limitations.

An elected Orange County Superior Court judge pleaded guilty on Monday, Jan. 12, to his role in a multimillion-dollar scheme to defraud a state workers’ compensation program. Israel Claustro, a ...