New York Attorney General Letitia James on Tuesday announced a seven-figure settlement with a Manhattan demolition company, following a sprawling three-year investigation into allegations of workers compensation fraud going back nearly a decade.
Alba Services agreed to pay $1.4 million to nearly 700 workers, many of whom were explicitly instructed by bosses not to file injury claims to the state Workers Compensation Board, investigators and workers said. According to James, the company also instructed workers — non-union and mostly immigrant — to misrepresent to their doctors how and where their workplace injuries occurred.
In exchange, bosses sometimes offered to pay medical bills under the table, as two former Alba workers told THE CITY in Jan. 2024. The attorney general’s investigation found Alba also retaliated against workers who did file injury claims and failed to address sexual harassment in the workplace…