Investigative Case Highlights

She hurt her knee fleeing from a charging dog on her mail route. Unfortunately, for many mail carriers, this story is all too familiar and often ends with staying on the Postal Service’s rolls through workers’ compensation. But this mail carrier in Miami, FL, wasn’t just injured after the dog incident. By the time our special agents flagged her in the system, she was the one doing damage.

Handling and delivering the mail is physically demanding, so postal employees are no strangers to injuries on the job. When that happens, the Postal Service takes care of them by putting them on workers’ compensation. However, injured employees must report right away (1) any improvement that could allow them to rejoin the workforce and (2) any outside income or employment. A mail handler in...

Internal derangement and rotator cuff tears of the right and left shoulders, lumbosacral strain, and dorsal muscle strain of the back resulting from an injury — any medical doctor would declare this patient unable to perform labor-intensive work, especially that of a Postal Service employee. Add to that PTSD, depression, and chronic pain stemming from the injury and it’s a case the Office of...

With the rise of online health and wellness companies offering concierge services and treatments (think GLP-1s), compounded medications are in the spotlight. These custom medications rely on pharmacists and doctors collaborating to create formulas that meet individual patients’ needs.

If you keep up with our Investigative Case Highlights , you know people who defraud the workers’ compensation program go out of their way to keep their schemes secret. We previously wrote about a case where a postal employee milked an alleged ankle injury for over 14 years while gainfully employed, and another where our special agents caught an employee dancing the night away while claiming an...