Authorities in California announced yesterday they had made four arrests for what is believed to be a record workers' compensation premium fraud of more than $39 million.
"Our fraud investigators believe it's the largest amount of premium fraud that they have seen in their records," said Norman D. Williams, a spokesperson for Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi.
In addition to the four taken into custody, the department said it was seeking other suspects.
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