A Cumberland County grand jury handed down indictments last week for three southern Maine men for crimes related to workers' compensation fraud.

Landon Logsdon, Ken Villella, and Peter Ronfeldt were indicted by the Cumberland County Superior Court's Grand Jury on Sept. 10. Each of the indicted men had been collecting workers' compensation insurance payments from the Maine Employers' Mutual Insurance Company (MEMIC). When the insurer's investigations of the cases raised red flags, the company's investigators handed the cases over to the Attorney General's office.

Logsdon, who was indicted on one count of theft by deception, has been ordered by the Maine Workers' Comp Board to repay about $19,000 after a finding showed that he falsely reported an injury to his employer and then attended training for another employer while supposedly being unable to work. He repeatedly misrepresented his injury to medical providers.

Villella, indicted on one count of theft by deception, was collecting total disability payments under workers' compensation while allegedly working as a part-time carpenter. He continued to represent that he was not working while collecting about $10,000.

Ronfeldt was indicted for one count of perjury, which is alleged to have occurred in a workers' compensation hearing, when he falsely reported that he was not working for another employer. Ronfeldt had been out of work from his first employer while collecting total disability payments of about $5,000.

Want to continue reading?
Become a Free PropertyCasualty360 Digital Reader

Your access to unlimited PropertyCasualty360 content isn’t changing.
Once you are an ALM digital member, you’ll receive:

  • Breaking insurance news and analysis, on-site and via our newsletters and custom alerts
  • Weekly Insurance Speak podcast featuring exclusive interviews with industry leaders
  • Educational webcasts, white papers, and ebooks from industry thought leaders
  • Critical converage of the employee benefits and financial advisory markets on our other ALM sites, BenefitsPRO and ThinkAdvisor
NOT FOR REPRINT

© 2024 ALM Global, LLC, All Rights Reserved. Request academic re-use from www.copyright.com. All other uses, submit a request to [email protected]. For more information visit Asset & Logo Licensing.