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Ruth Castilleja of Baytown got caught for fraud after reporting an injury while
working as a phlebotomist. Texas Mutual accepted her workers’
compensation claim and started her benefits for income replacement. That
is until they learned that she was working, again as a phlebotomist but at
another company. In the parlance of workers’ comp, this is called “double
dipping.” She said she was too hurt to work in order to get workers’
compensation income replacement benefits, but in reality she was not so hurt
that she couldn’t work. Her punishment? Three days in Travis County
Jail where she attended some classes on theft, and $7,100 to be paid in
restitution to Texas Mutual (presumably to be paid from her ill-gotten
gains).
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