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O.C. Social Services Agency employee charged with workers’ comp insurance fraud

Posted on November 3, 2015 by Editor Posted in Crime, Insurance, OC Social Services Agency, Orange County, Workers' Compensation Leave a comment

ORANGE COUNTY DISTRICT ATTORNEY PRESS RELEASE

Case # 15CF2317

Date: November 3, 2015

OC SOCIAL SERVICES AGENCY EMPLOYEE CHARGED WITH COMMITTING OVER $30,000 INSURANCE FRAUD BY FALSIFYING CLAIMS ABOUT WORK-RELATED INJURY

SANTA ANA, Calif. – An Orange County Social Services Agency (SSA) group counselor has been charged and is expected to be arraigned tomorrow for defrauding over $30,000 from the County of Orange by making fraudulent statements relating to his workers’ compensation claim. Maluelue Tafua, 40, Orange, is charged with two felony counts of insurance fraud and two felony counts of making fraudulent statements. If convicted, Tafua faces a maximum sentence of eight years in state prison. He is out of custody on $20,000 bail and is scheduled to be arraigned tomorrow, Nov. 4, 2015, at 8:30 a.m. in Department C-55, Central Justice Center, Santa Ana.

At the time of the crime, Tafua worked as a group counselor for SSA. Continue reading→

Orange County targets fraud in worker’s compensation claims

Posted on October 31, 2015 by Editor Posted in Crime, Insurance, Orange County, Workers' Compensation 1 Comment

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: October 30, 2015

Contact: Jean Pasco, (714) 834-7218, jean.pasco@ocgov.com

County Targets Fraud in Worker’s Compensation Claims

(Santa Ana, CA) — A 10-year County employee was arrested this month on four felony counts of worker’s compensation fraud as part of a multi-level effort by County officials to target those suspected of collecting benefits they did not earn.

The employee will be arraigned November 4 on two counts of insurance fraud and two counts of making fraudulent statements. He was on paid worker’s compensation leave in 2014 when he reportedly was observed weightlifting at a gym and engaging in other physical activities well beyond what he claimed he was capable of doing. During questioning more than a month later, he is accused of claiming that he was still injured. Continue reading→

Why did Frank Ury stick it to M.V. home owners by putting them in fire hazard zones?

Posted on May 21, 2014 by Editor Posted in Fires, Frank Ury, Insurance, Mission Viejo, Orange County 2 Comments

MV Fire Hazard Zones

By Joe Holtzman

Guess what???? On May 19, 2014 The Mission Viejo City Council was bit right where it hurts by the Orange County Fire Authority. The OCFA without notifying city hall, (or Chief Architect of this fiasco—Rhonda Reardon) —sent out thousands of letters to city residents telling them they were in fire hazard zones. Now the fun has begun, as various insurance companies have started cancelling policies. This has left homeowners without fire insurance.

Does this sound a little like Obama Care?

Did Reardon say “You can keep your fire insurance– if you like it !“ ?

I guess the naivety of Council members Reardon,Kelley, F.Ury and Leckness shows brightly on this latest council fiasco. Only one councilmember knew what was going to happen—but she was marginalized, belittled, and ostracized by the all “knowing” majority.

Here is the article I wrote on this subject a couple of weeks ago: Continue reading→

Op-Ed: Discrimination against the chronically ill or a cost control measure?

Posted on April 14, 2014 by Editor Posted in Health, Healthcare, Insurance, Orange County Leave a comment

Dominick V. Spatafora

Discrimination Against Chronically Ill or Cost Control Measure?

By: Dominick Spatafora, president of the Neuropathy Action Foundation

I am writing today as a multifocal motor neuropathy patient who is prescribed intravenous immune globulin, as well as the founder and president of the Neuropathy Action Foundation (NAF). The NAF is dedicated to ensuring neuropathy patients obtain the necessary resources and tools to access individualized treatment to improve their quality of life. I am extremely concerned about how, in recent years, health plans have been targeting certain chronically ill patients by charging them more for their lifesaving and limb-saving medications and therapies. Continue reading→

June 3 Special Election to be held in the Irvine Unified School District

Posted on January 26, 2014 by Editor Posted in 2014 Elections, Education, Insurance, Ira Glasky, Irvine, Orange County Leave a comment

June 3 Special Election to Be Held in Irvine Unified School District

By: Orange County Supervisor Todd Spitzer (Photo courtesy of Irvine Unified School District)

Voters in the Irvine Unified School District will face a special election that will be consolidated with the Tuesday, June 3, primary election. This special election will fill a seat on the Irvine School Board for less than six months. The Irvine Unified School District covers most of Irvine and small portions of Tustin.

Irvine School Board Member Gavin Huntley-Fenner resigned effective on November 21, 2013. At that point, the Irvine School Board voted to appoint Ira Glasky to fill the vacancy, with one year remaining on Huntley-Fenner’s term. The next regularly scheduled election for the seat was set for November 4, 2014. Continue reading→

Is Proposition 33 good for Californians?

Posted on October 14, 2012 by Editor Posted in 2012 Elections, Ballot Measures, California, Insurance 1 Comment

SACRAMENTO, Calif. , Oct. 5, 2012 /PRNewswire/ — The YES on PROP 33 team wants to remind California of the TRUE language behind Proposition 33.

Under Proposition 33, consumers will be able to switch insurance companies and keep their continuous coverage discount. Prop 33 creates a more robust, competitive insurance market. Continue reading→