A Puyallup man has been charged with 57 counts of felony theft for allegedly collecting workers' compensation benefits illegally.
Christopher Robin Briejer, 48, collected benefits from 2004 to 2009 on a re-opened 2000 workplace-injury claim for low-back strain. He claimed he was unable to work due to the earlier injury and that no other injuries had occurred in the meantime.
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Nov. 6, 2009 at 2:30pm L&I presses charges for alleged fraudBriejer was arraigned yesterday in Pierce County Superior Court and pled not guilty. The state Department of Labor & Industries stopped benefit payments after an investigation determined that Briejer had suffered an unrelated injury in October 2003. At the time, he was self-employed and not paying for workers' compensation insurance. "The information from the public was vital to our investigation," said Carl Hammersburg, manager of L&I's Fraud Prevention and Compliance Program. L&I began investigating Briejer based on an anonymous tip on its fraud Web site. Plenty more in the Archives The comments function of the Business Examiner community is meant to encourage conversations and spark ideas about business issues in the South Sound. The feature is free and open to members of the public who register basic log in information. Comments should be concise, on topic and avoid attacks, profanity or abusive language or content. Comments that are deemed to violate this policy will be removed. |
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