Case Study: Insurance Claimant Background

An employee at a major university filed a workers' compensation claim stating that he had suffered psychological trauma related to a workplace injury. During nearly five years of litigating his case, he repeatedly denied any outside stress factors in his life. An investigation by JPHI revealed that, concurrent with his claim, the employee had paid nearly $400,000 in legal fees on behalf of his son, who was convicted and incarcerated in connection with the largest seizure of MDMA (commonly known as ecstasy) in U.S. history. During the same period, the employee's nephew, who participated in the MDMA scheme, was shot and killed.