On August 7, San Francisco District Attorney Brooke Jenkins announced that Declan McKevitt, 47, and Grace McKevitt, 54, were arraigned on felony charges tied to how their company, An Dun Construction, allegedly handled payroll, premiums, and an injured employee.
Both pleaded not guilty. Bail was set at $40,000 each. They posted and were released, and they are scheduled back in Department 9 at the Hall of Justice on October 15, 2026. Charges are allegations, not convictions. The case is still in court.
According to the district attorney’s office, the McKevitts own and manage An Dun Construction. Prosecutors say they underreported payroll to their workers’ compensation insurer and to the California Employment Development Department, and that they failed to pay premiums, income tax, payroll tax, and other required contributions. Declan McKevitt is also charged with making a false statement to deny compensation and with discouraging an injured worker from claiming benefits.
The alleged scheme came to light the way these cases often do: someone got hurt. Court records cited by the DA say an employee severely injured his hand on a table saw and lost a finger. Prosecutors allege McKevitt told the worker to deny that the injury was work-related while seeking medical care, then denied that the man even worked for An Dun Construction — claiming he was on the jobsite without the company’s knowledge. That denial, the DA says, delayed benefits for four months. Payroll records and witness statements, according to the office, showed the worker had been on An Dun’s payroll for about seven months before the injury.
What this costs honest shops
For contractors who actually report payroll, this is the part that stings. Premium fraud does not just cheat an insurance company. It shifts cost onto every shop that is honest about who is on the crew, what they do, and what they get paid. Underreporting and misclassification show up as delayed checks, disputed claims, and higher rates for the rest of the market.
There is a practical line here that has nothing to do with San Francisco court numbers. If someone is on your payroll, they are your employee when they get hurt. Telling an injured worker to call it something else, or pretending they were never there, is how a jobsite accident becomes a criminal case. Underreporting payroll to keep the premium down is how the audit — or the district attorney — eventually finds you.
Mainline’s book in Chula Vista is full of contractors who do this the other way: classify the work correctly, keep the payroll current, and call the office when someone is hurt so the claim is reported clean. Workers’ compensation is not a form you fill out after the fact. It is the policy that is supposed to be in force on the morning the saw is running.
If you have questions about a workers’ compensation audit, a classification, or a claim that is not moving, call the office at (619) 420-8600 or start a quote. We will tell you what we need and what the market will actually write.
Source: San Francisco District Attorney press release, August 7, 2026.