A San Diego man was sentenced to 180 days in jail after he tried to get his employer to pay him workers' compensation for preexisting injuries.
Ramon Romo, a shipyard worker, was also ordered to pay more than $25,000 in restitution to his employer in addition to $680 in fines.
On June 6, 2005, Romo fractured his thumb while on the job, and filed a workers' compensation claim with his employer, NASSCO, a ship-building company in California. Several months later, he added claims for back, neck, and right shoulder injuries, claiming the injuries occurred at the same time as his thumb injury. In Dec. 2005, Romo testified under oath that his additional injuries were not preexisting. He repeated this claim during a qualified medical exam.
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