Mom and pop shop named in comp fraud
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A married couple working at their son’s Vancouver, Washington, auto repair shop claimed to be hurt at the shop and received workers compensation benefits for their alleged injuries, all the while repeatedly submitting late payments for comp premiums, the Washington State Department of Labor & Industries reported Monday.
Following an investigation into the family running My Dad’s Automotive & Exhaust that included anonymous tips and surveillance, the department is accusing Jeffrey Bart Pierson of stealing more than $116,000 in comp benefits and his wife Karen S. Pierson of stealing more than $64,000 in benefits.
L&I investigators say they recorded more than 100 video clips of the defendants working at the shop during the same time the couple regularly stated on official forms that they weren’t working because of injuries they suffered on the job.
Meanwhile, investigators also discovered that My Dad’s Automotive had been late paying its workers comp insurance premiums for several years. “The L&I revenue agent assigned to collect the past-due premiums discovered that while he was corresponding with Karen Pierson about the business, she was claiming to another part of L&I she was too injured to work,” the department said.
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