$300mn workers' comp scheme laid bare in California

A massive workers' compensation fraud ring included 10 Los
Angeles lawyers who collaborated with a pair of business owners to
recruit thousands of mainly Spanish-speaking immigrants to make
bogus injury claims which may have totalled more than $300mn,
authorities said yesterday.
One of the businesses allegedly involved opened in 2005,
according to Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas.
Investigators say they were tipped off to the scheme three years
ago by an insurer they didn't identi