Here's one woman who thought she knew how to nurse a claim.

The Pennsylvania Attorney General's Insurance Fraud Section recently filed criminal charges against a Williamstown, N.J., woman for filing a fraudulent workers' compensation claim in Montgomery County, Pa.

Dawn Utz, 37, a registered nurse, allegedly reported work-related injuries to her hip and lower back while trying to lift a patient in an intensive care unit at her place of employment, a hospital. However, the attorney general's office said, she continued to work while supposedly injured.

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