CT Nursing Assistant Charged with Workers' Compensation Fraud
By WorkersCompensation.com 09/06/2016 08:08:00
Rocky Hill, CT (WorkersCompensation.com) - A Waterbury woman was arrested today and charged with illegally collecting $22,000 in Workers’ Compensation benefits.
ROSAURA RODRIGUEZ, age 51, of 161 Prospect Street, Waterbury, was arrested by Inspectors from the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit in the Office of the Chief State’s Attorney on an arrest warrant charging her with one count of Fraudulent Claim or Receipt of Benefits.
According to the arrest warrant affidavit, Rodriguez collected more than $22,000 in Workers’ Compensation benefits as a result of a work-related injury she reported suffering in June 2015 while employed as a certified nursing assistant (CNA) at Saint Mary’s Hospital in Waterbury.
The benefits were intended to compensate Rodriguez for income she lost by being unable to work at the hospital and her second job as a live-in caretaker when, in fact, she continued to work the second job, the warrant alleges.
Rodriguez was released on a promise to appear in Waterbury Superior Court, G.A. No. 4, on September 13, 2016. The charges are merely accusations and she is presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
The case will be prosecuted by the Workers’ Compensation Fraud Control Unit.