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By Robert Warne - July 1, 2002It’s the end of the road for a workers’ compensation fraud Ironwoman and her chiropractor. After a few triathalons and a slew of claims that transpired over a seven-year period state fraud investigators and Kings County authorities finally caught Charlotte Chapman-Allyn catching her breath.
Chapman-Allyn filed a workers’ compensation claim in 1995 that was reported as an on-the-job shoulder injury that resulted from lifting boxes in a storage unit. Further nvestigation revealed that Chapman-Allyn had a prior existing injury to her shoulder from a skiing accident that she failed to report to the medical doctors that treated her. Leading up to and following her injury, Chapman-Allyn trained for and competed in two triathlons.
In 1999 she filed another workers’ compensation claim in which she reported a back injury from moving boxes again in her storage unit. After she reported the back injury, Chapman-Allyn continued to train and compete in triathlons. Both before and after being determined permanent and stationary with physical limitations, Chapman-Allyn also competed in the Lemoore Navel Air Station military obstacle course competition in both 1999 and 2000.
Investigators say Chapman-Allyn filed another workers’ compensation claim in 2000 for carpal tunnel. She received workers’ compensation disability benefits for the reported injury but continued working full time at Kings Industrial Occupational Medical Center while receiving benefits.
According to investigators, Chapman-Allyn is an owner/administrator of Valley Medical Managers in Hanford, which operates Kings Industrial Occupational Medical Center, a workers’ compensation clinic. While collecting workers’ compensation benefit payments from Esis Insurance, Chapman-Allyn was also being paid by Kings Industrial Occupational Medical Center. The medical center compensated Chapman-Allyn’s personally owned corporation, which paid her personal debts. Chapman-Allyn claimed while receiving the workers’ compensation benefits she was receiving no other income.
Additionally, while working for and being paid by Kings Industrial Occupational Medical Center, Chapman-Allyn claimed she could no longer work and applied for and began receiving total disability payments amounting to $14,609 from MetLife Disability Insurance. The payments were terminated when MetLife learned Chapman-Allyn was employed.
Chiropractor Griffin Benjamin Bailey, Jr. treated Chapman-Allen for the 1999 workers’ compensation claim. Bailey has allegedly reported to investigators that he was aware of Chapman-Allyn’s physical training and triathlon activities but did not report them to Esis. Bailey also failed to report to Esis that he worked for Chapman-Allyn at Kings Industrial Occupational Medical Center for several months while he was treating her.
Both Chapman-Allyn and Bailey were arrested and booked last week for their fraudulent activities.
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