‘Yellowstone’ actor Q’Orianka Kilcher charged with incapacity fee fraud – Nationwide

Actor Q’Orianka Kilcher, who featured on the TV present Yellowstone and is greatest recognized for portraying Pocahontas within the 2005 movie The New World, has been charged with illegally gathering practically US$97,000 (about $130,000) in incapacity advantages.

Kilcher, 32, of North Hollywood is charged with two felony counts of staff’ compensation insurance coverage fraud, based on a Monday press launch from the California Division of Insurance coverage (CDI).

In October 2018, Kilcher allegedly injured her neck and proper shoulder whereas engaged on the set of the 2019 movie Dora and the Misplaced Metropolis of Gold.

After consulting a health care provider a number of occasions that 12 months, Kilcher stopped remedy. A 12 months later, in October 2019, Kilcher reached out to the insurance coverage firm dealing with her declare and stated she wanted additional medical assist, based on the press launch. The CDI says she informed a health care provider that she had extreme neck ache and couldn’t settle for work due to the severity of her damage.

“Primarily based on Kilcher’s statements to the physician, she started receiving non permanent whole incapacity advantages,” the press launch reads.

Between 2019 and 2021, Kilcher acquired $96,838 in non permanent incapacity advantages.

The CDI says an investigation into Kilcher’s declare, nevertheless, revealed that through the time of her purported incapacity she labored as an actress on Yellowstone, the place she portrayed Angela Blue Thunder for 4 episodes alongside Kevin Costner.

Her stint on the set of Yellowstone ran from July 2019 to October 2019, regardless of her telling her physician that she had been unable to work for a 12 months.

“In response to information, she returned to the physician and began receiving incapacity advantages 5 days after final engaged on the present,” the assertion stated.

Kilcher surrendered and was arraigned on the fees in Could, based on the California Division of Insurance coverage.

Michael Becker, Kilcher’s lawyer, stated the actor was a passenger in a manufacturing automobile when she was harm through the filming of Dora.

“Third-party medical doctors verified her damage and entitlement to advantages. Ms. Kilcher was always candid along with her medical doctors and remedy suppliers … and she or he by no means deliberately accepted advantages that she didn’t consider she was entitled to,” Becker stated.

Kilcher will “vigorously defend herself and asks that she be afforded the presumption of innocence each in and outdoors the courthouse,” Becker stated.

In 2010, Kilcher was arrested and charged with disorderly conduct for tying herself to a White Home fence. Her mom was arrested alongside her and the pair informed authorities they have been protesting a go to by the president of Peru. Kilcher’s father is an Indigenous particular person from Peru.

— with information from The Related Press

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