Commonwealth v. Williams

The defendant was convicted in the District Court of one count of fraud under the workers’ compensation statute, *616G. L. c. 152, § 14 (not contested on appeal),1 one count of presenting a false insurance claim, G. L. c. 266, § 111 A, and one count of larceny by false pretenses, G. L. c. 266, § 30(1), for which he received concurrent sentences.

The charges arose out of a fraudulent workers’ compensation claim filed by the defendant, a truck driver, in which he alleged that battery acid leaked from the buckle of the seatbelt of his employer’s truck onto his groin, and that he further injured…