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The California Department of Insurance has awarded $34.9 million in grants to 37 district attorney offices representing 44 counties across California to combat workers’ compensation insurance fraud.

The grants, funded through employer assessments, support law enforcement efforts in investigating and prosecuting workers’ compensation insurance fraud.

Workers’ compensation insurance fraud includes medical provider fraud, employer premium fraud, employer defrauding employee, insider fraud, claimant fraud, and the willfully uninsured operating in the underground economy. These cases, when successfully prosecuted, help level the playing field for honest businesses and discourage future fraudulent activity.

Grant funding is based on assessments from California insured and self-insured employers. California district attorneys apply for workers’ compensation insurance fraud grant funds. The commissioner’s panel reviews the applications and makes funding recommendations to the commissioner, based on multiple criteria, including past performance, the county’s problem statement, and their program strategy for the upcoming year. The panel makes a recommendation to the insurance commissioner, who either accepts or amends the panel’s recommendation. The commissioner’s recommendation is submitted to the Fraud Assessment Commission for their advice and consent, and then the grants are awarded.

This year the grants were distributed to the several counties as follows:

Alameda $1,511,933 Sacramento $952,027
Amador $393,896 San Bernardino $1,968,662
Butte $76,378 San Diego $5,028,198
Contra Costa $864,000 San Francisco $758,121
El Dorado $292,828 San Joaquin $472,972
Fresno $1,116,000 San Luis Obispo $54,419
Humboldt $200,000 San Mateo $677,353
Imperial $125,450 Santa Barbara $331,499
Kern $752,904 Santa Clara $2,626,811
Kings $263,875 Santa Cruz $49,000
Los Angeles $6,729,177 Shasta $137,307
Marin $245,000 Siskiyou $46,832
Merced $175,209 Solano $169,476
Monterey $660,000 Sonoma $82,120
Napa $123,609 Tehama $112,127
Nevada $75,049 Tulare $501,165
Orange $4,152,802 Ventura $708,652
Placer $175,000 Yolo $257,010
Riverside $2,084,970 ——————————- —————————-
TOTAL $34,951,831