As a worker’s comp manager, here’s one you’ll appreciate. But this case never (apparently) became a worker’s comp matter; a cop on a small police department in Rhode Island went on sick leave with a staph infection in 1998. He never returned to work; remaining on sick leave drawing full pay and benefits for more than two decades, and only recently retired, after reporters for a local TV station began asking questions:
https://turnto10.com/i-team/nbc-10-i-team-cop-retires-after-22-years-on-sick-leave
And it gets better: thanks to his department’s collective bargaining agreement, the former cop can now collect $80K in unused sick and vacation time.
Que te chin***? It is insane that no one notice until the local TV station got hold of it-I could almost understand his fraud falling through the cracks in a big city department-but not some place in Rhode Island-my guess is that he had inside help...