
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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Insurance fraud costs insurance companies and, subsequently, their customers, a huge amount of money every year. We believe that insurance companies do want to pay the legitimate claims as much as they want to ferret out the cases where claims are fraudulent. But it is often difficult to tell the difference. Soft tissue injuries are […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]