![]() Upon administrative review, the Workers' Compensation Board adopted and affirmed the decision of the WCLJ, and claimant now appeals. ![]() The WCLJ, having imposed a mandatory and discretionary penalty, rescinded benefits awarded to claimant from to Novemand disqualified her from receiving future wage replacement benefits. ![]() A hearing ensued, after which a Workers' Compensation Law Judge (hereinafter the WCLJ) found that claimant knowingly misrepresented her volunteer activity with CitiVision, a youth-based camp formerly directed by her husband, in order to obtain workers' compensation benefits in violation of Workers' Compensation Law ยง 114-a (1). Following claimant's October 2009 arrest for insurance fraud, and based upon responses provided by claimant on a workers' compensation questionnaire denying participation in any work or volunteer activity since her 2005 accident and an investigation and a video surveillance of claimant, the employer sought to suspend her wage replacement benefits. As a result of a January 2005 work-related accident, claimant sustained compensable injuries to her left ankle and lower back and was awarded wage replacement benefits. ![]()
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