Tag: fraud investigations
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Intuition Speaks Loud and Clear When You Need an Investigator
The staff at would like to remind you of a couple of old sayings. Both are about intuition. One of the sayings goes something like, “If you wonder if you can trust a person, you already know you can’t” and the other is, “If it feels wrong, it usually is.” There are countless ways these…
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Insurance Fraud Covers More Than a Falsified Slip and Fall Claim
We have all heard the horror stories about employees who scam the system and cost their employer lots of money by filing false claims and committing workers compensation fraud. But another very real issue involves dishonest business owners who scam coverage providers. And so, when insurance companies contact about insurance fraud, we move swiftly to…
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What is Insurance Fraud?
What do you think of when you hear the words, insurance fraud? At , we don’t have one description in particular because not only is every case we work on different, but insurance fraud encompasses many different situations. I thought we might take this opportunity to share some of them with you. Workers compensation fraud…
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Insurance Fraud Investigators Supply Evidence for Trials
Sometimes when is conducting an investigation on the subject in a potentially fraudulent insurance claim, the result of the evidence can be more than a simple claim denial. Sometimes there is the potential for criminal charges. This is true in many insurance fraud investigations including: Workers compensation fraud investigations Long term disability fraud investigations Auto…
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Investigator’s Collection of Data Leads to Confession of Insurance Fraud
When the economy takes a dive or unemployment is high, the incidence of insurance fraud tends to increase as well. It’s not just greed that compels policy holders to commit insurance fraud, it is also desperation. And that is not limited to disability insurance fraud or slip and fall accidents. For example, insurance fraud investigators…
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Insurance Fraud Stacks Deception on Top of Desperation
There are so many different aspects to insurance fraud. Besides fraudulent claims and falsely-acquired settlements, money may be a motivator for other types of insurance fraud. Take, for example the case of a man who lost his job. He had a wife and three children and suddenly found it impossible to find employment. He was…
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Slips and Fall Accidents, Fraud and Videotape
Everyone has heard of these cases, we have seen lots of them here at : the ones where a person (the claimant) has slipped or fallen and claims to have injured themselves in a restaurant or store. What you might not know is that there is a huge contingent of repeat claimants. One of the…
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Medical Provider Fraud Surprises Innocent Patients
You might be surprised to learn that not all insurance fraud is uncovered because of a personal injury investigation, workers compensation fraud investigation, product liability investigation or a long term disability insurance fraud investigation. No, it’s not always the “patient” who is being investigated. Sometimes it is the medical care provider! Not every doctor, physical…