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Defendant Anita Maxwell Trying To Raise $26,658.18 To Repay Subrosa Costs, Mileage Reimbursement Costs, And PD Overpayments. Returns To Court March 15th.
By Lonce LaMon - January 26, 2016

On Wednesday morning, January 20th 2016, Anita Maxwell appeared in court room 120 in Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown Los Angeles as the defendant in her ongoing case for workers’ compensation fraud.
 
The Honorable Craig Richman presides in that court room.  He walked up to the bench smiling and speaking animatedly to his clerk.   He was wearing a suit on his thin frame below a head of short brown and grey hair.  He didn’t put his robe on until he got to his chair.
   
Anita Maxwell’s case was called and she stepped forward from the center of a bench in the center gallery seating section with her full figure wearing black pants and a black and white shirt.   She is a 56 year-old black woman who worked at Cedars Sinai Medical Center as a CNA (Certified Nurse Assistant). She wore a nice hair style curled under just above her shoulders.
  
Anita’s lawyer, Karl Fenske, simply asked for a continuance.
 
Judge Craig Richman:  May I ask why?
  
Public Defender Karl Fenske:   We’re trying to raise some of these funds.
 
Judge Craig Richman:  What day did you ask for?
 
Karl Fenske:  March 15th 2016
Judge Craig Richman:  Is that the Ides of March?   Okay….  Ms. Maxwell is ordered here at 8:30 am on March 15th.
 
This case was investigated by Dalene Bartholomew of Probe Investigations until it was turned over to the California Department of Insurance.  Maxwell claimed she was driving from Adelanto to Beverly Hills for her doctor’s appointments at Cedars Sinai Medical Center.  That’s 264 miles round trip.  But then she casually told her doctor she was living in Valley Village, which is near Burbank.
  
She turned in several mileage reimbursement requests to claims adjuster Susan Sontag-Schmehr at Tristar Risk Management. All claimed she drove from Adelanto to Beverly Hills.
  
If she really was driving from Valley Village to Beverly Hills, she was falsely reimbursed in excess of $6,500 for mileage.
  
Surveillance investigator Ken Shepard saw Maxwell leave for her medical appointments from Valley Village and arrive to Cedars Sinai in Beverly Hills on a few occasions.    He never saw her leave from Adelanto or return to Adelanto. The investigation showed that the post office did have a record of her receiving mail in Adelanto, but no surveillance ever showed her coming and going to and from Adelanto to get to Cedars Sinai.   All of her trips observed and caught on surveillance recordings began in Valley Village.
 
The transcript of the April 15th 2015 testimony of California Department of Insurance investigator, Rebekah McClain, was found in the court file. In it Maxwell’s attorney Karl Fenske argued that Anita Maxwell had a right to “stop off” in Valley Village on her way to and from Adelanto.  She had a right to get there the night before or early in the morning and make it an in-between stop before moving on to Cedars Sinai. He argued this fervently.
 
But this was a “nice try” argument that didn’t fly with the judge. Judge Amy Carter ordered the defendant Maxwell to be held to answer to the charges.   This meant she was ordered to trial.  The sole testimony from Department of Insurance investigator Rebeckah McClain appeared to constitute a Preliminary Hearing.
 
The 14 count Information was filed on November 13th 2014. Now Maxwell, headed for trial and pleading not-guilty, is trying to raise the sub-rosa costs, the mileage reimbursement costs, and the Permanent Disability (PD) overpayments which combined, add to $26,658.16. This is obviously the reason her lawyer, Karl Fenske, asked for more time.  She is challenged to come up with that amount of money.   But when asked directly, his answer was, “We have no statement to make regarding the case. Thanks.”
 
Anita Maxwell’s doctor who apportioned her injury did not know about any prior injuries.  She did not admit to any. When asked if she had injured the same body part before, she said no. Then when the doctor was later asked if he would have apportioned the same had he known about the priors, he stated he would have apportioned half of what he apportioned when he believed there were no prior injuries.  Some of the prior injuries dated back to the years 2000 and 2001.
    
As mentioned earlier in this article, Anita Maxwell returns to court room 120 on March 15th 2016 at 8:30 am at Clara Shortridge Foltz Criminal Justice Center in downtown L.A.  
 
 
lonce@adjustercom.com; Lonce LaMon, journalist - copyright Lonce LaMon and adjustercom; all rights reserved  
 
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