The chairman of the quasi-public insurer providing workers' compensation coverage to most Rhode Island employers has resigned, and auditors are probing complaints from a secret whistleblower that the chairman cheated the company.
The activity--by a forensic auditing team sent by the Department of Business Regulation (DBR) to probe the Beacon Mutual Insurance Company--has kicked off a court battle after investigators asked to copy the contents of the Beacon management's computer hard drives.
At the time of this article's posting, the issue of whether DBR's audit team could view the drive data and other material remained unresolved
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