All in Investigations

Month: October 2013

  • Knows How to Find Missing Persons

    Knows How to Find Missing Persons

    is well-known in central Indiana for finding people. We know how to locate people not only in central Indiana, but across the nation and overseas as well. There are many reasons we have been asked to undertake take a missing person search, including: Disappearance under suspicious circumstances Suspected runaways Locating heir to an estate Family…

  • Insurance Fraud Investigations Also Uncover Forgery

    Insurance Fraud Investigations Also Uncover Forgery

    In the course of insurance fraud investigation, Internal Investigators has uncovered a trend that accompanies some claims – and that is forgery. Product liability cases can involve anything from a vehicle, to a food product, furniture, building materials and everything in between. When a claim is made about a product that might require relocating or…

  • Personal Injury Investigation Reveals Fake Job and Fake Wages

    Personal Injury Investigation Reveals Fake Job and Fake Wages

    When insurance claims are approved and benefits begin, that doesn’t mean the case is closed. Especially if the insurance claims adjuster sees one or more red flags. In that case, an insurance company may hire private insurance fraud investigators for a brief surveillance – maybe a day or two. In that short time frame, the…

  • Slip and Fall Accident Investigation – We Do It All!

    Slip and Fall Accident Investigation – We Do It All!

    One of the purposes of the blog is to educate our customers and clients – and prospective clients. We do that by staying abreast of news and sharing that and insights with you. Therefore, when we discovered that many insurance companies and underwriting associations are educating their members in ways to detect fraud, we wanted…

  • Workers’ Compensation Fraud Investigation Reveals Complex Web

    Workers’ Compensation Fraud Investigation Reveals Complex Web

    works with workers’ compensation insurance providers investigating workers’ compensation fraud. Through investigative techniques and surveillance, we often can uncover the truth about claimants and their activities. But that’s not all. The company being insured can come under question. Are the employees and wages being accurately reported? Are claims being processed in accordance with the law?…

  • Medical Service Providers Caught in Insurance Fraud Investigation

    Medical Service Providers Caught in Insurance Fraud Investigation

    If you want to understand why insurance companies hire private insurance fraud investigators, consider this quote from the NorthJersey.com, the online home of The Record: “Three former chiropractors from Bergen and Passaic counties were sentenced to five years of probation Monday for setting up a fraudulent practice in Paterson and cheating more than 30 insurance…

  • Computer Forensics and OTR Trucking

    Computer Forensics and OTR Trucking

    Computers are a part of every segment of our lives – from choosing a restaurant or moving and getting the route to get there on time to doing our work in an office, restaurant or on the road in our cars or vans. That is why computer forensics investigations are becoming more the norm than…

  • Workers Compensation Fraud Investigation Leads to Surprises

    Workers Compensation Fraud Investigation Leads to Surprises

    A recent California case reported in the Los Angeles Daily News proves that workers’ compensation fraud is not just about employees and their claims. No, in this case, the employer was revealed to be the perpetrator of workers’ comp fraud. The employer was found guilty of workers’ compensation fraud and sentenced to 29 days in…

  • Appropriate Legal Wording for Cell Records Requests Critical Time Saver

    Appropriate Legal Wording for Cell Records Requests Critical Time Saver

    Can you image the amount of data collected by the phone companies? Not data on customers, but the data that is created by customers. They can store service records – but for only short periods – and once it’s gone, it’s gone. Because the service provider data is time sensitive, if an attorney or the…

  • Staged Accidents Cost Big Money in Insurance Fraud

    Staged Accidents Cost Big Money in Insurance Fraud

    is seeing a growing incidence of insurance fraud, specifically, in auto bodily injury (ABI) cases. Part of the increase in claims is due to contrived accidents, which are also called set up auto accidents or staged accidents. These accidents involve a large number of people – both “victims” and service providers (car repairs, doctors, chiropractors)…