A Modesto motel owner may be in for an extended stay in jail after allegedly committing workers' comp insurance fraud.
Muhammad Hassan Raza must have had a vacancy between his ears when he stopped paying the workers' comp insurance for the Vagabond Inn that he co-owned. The two-star motel was insured by First Comp until payments stopped coming in and the policy was dropped in December of 2008.
Nearly a year later in August of 2009, one of Raza's employees was assaulted on the job, and was told to contact First Comp to collect benefits. Unfortunately because the Vagabond Inn's policy had, much in the manner of its name, come and gone, the injured employee had to pay her bills through her private health plan.
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