Tag: insurance fraud investigations
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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)…
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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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Fishing For Long Term Disability Insurance Fraud
Long term disability (LTD) cases are not decided and then set aside. In many cases, LTD claims are reviewed, especially if an investigation was completed previously but was not conclusive one way or another. Such a case came into an investigator. In this situation, the claimant had been receiving LTD benefits for several years when…
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Full Service Investigators Bring It All to Insurance Fraud Cases
Part of the reason why insurance companies, attorneys and self-insured companies hire a private investigator like is because we can uncover the truth in a wide variety of situations. For example, in one case where a car was allegedly stolen and recovered completely burned out, the insurance company asked us to investigate the owner. The…