Texas Man Sentenced on Workers’ Comp Fraud

Texas Mutual Insurance Co. reported that a Travis County district court sentenced Terrance Hopkins of Tyler on workers’ compensation fraud-related charges. The court sentenced Hopkins to one year of deferred adjudication and ordered him to pay $3,673 in restitution to Texas Mutual. Hopkins reported a job-related injury while working as a teacher for Bayes Achievement Center in Huntsville. He claimed he was unable to work as a result of the injury, and Texas Mutual began paying income benefits to him.Meanwhile, Texas Mutual uncovered evidence that Hopkins was working as a junior college coach while receiving income benefits due to his alleged disability. Investigators call this type of scam double-dipping because the claimant collects benefits for being too injured to work when he or she is, in fact, gainfully employed.