Motocross Racer Alleging Workplace Injury Convicted Of Workers’ Compensation Fraud

Montana Attorney General Tim Fox announced this week a Three Forks man charged with fraudulently collecting workers’ compensation benefits from the Montana State Fund has pled guilty.

Antony H. Caruana, 42, pled guilty in District Court in Helena on Oct. 16 to one count of theft related to fraudulently filing a workers’ compensation claim with Montana State Fund.

On June 16, 2015, Caruana claimed he suffered a work-related injury to his right knee while working as an HVAC technician in Bozeman.

Nine days earlier, Caruana had competed in a motocross race near Clancy. That same day, he submitted an injury form to State Fund and returned to work after seeing a medical provider.

State Fund began paying Caruana’s medical bills. Subsequent investigations by the Montana Department of Justice’s Division of Criminal Investigation, or DCI, uncovered that Caruana had competed in three other motocross races in the two months prior to his alleged workplace injury.