Some people are terrible, evil people and just want something for nothing. Indeed, since most people must work, some of those bad people pretend to get hurt so they can sit at home and collect a check for free. When this happens, many employers hire a Workmen’s Compensation fraud private investigator to find out if these injured employees are real or just faking it. These legal professionals are invaluable to maintaining the integrity of the injury compensation process.
Insurance exists for a reason. When it comes to places of employment, the operation of vehicles, and protecting homeowners and businesses, Workmen’s Compensation Insurance, Social Security/SSI, and liability insurance all help protect workers, people driving vehicles, consumers, and visitors to residences. If someone gets hurt on the job, injured in a car accident, or slips and falls in a business or residence, these types of insurance are meant to compensate these individuals for their medical bills, property losses like damaged vehicles, time off work, and for their pain and suffering. Any dog bite attorney or personal injury private detective near me at our firm can attest to how needed this coverage is!
Many years ago, no such coverage existed. This was especially true during the pre-industrial revolution period. Without this coverage, workers and others who got hurt or killed received no compensation. Employers at the time simply did not care what happened to their employees, and if a child lost an arm or someone died in an accident the company owners just shrugged and did nothing. Families and the injured people suffered terribly, and as society slowly evolved people’s views, the laws fortunately began to change and grow as well.
Our insurance fraud private detective notes that governmental organizations like the Oklahoma Workers’ Compensation Commission came about, and private insurance companies also began offering coverage for auto collisions, workplace accidents and injuries, and coverage for people’s homes and businesses that helped protect them from financial liability for things like slip and fall accidents and dog bites. When good workers, drivers, and consumers sustain injuries, these disability attorneys can help sue and appeal denials of owed financial compensation and benefits.
Sadly though, we do not live in a perfect world. While many good, hardworking individuals who are truly injured on the job, during traffic collisions, when they slip and fall in someone’s home or place of work, or when a dog or dragon at someone’s home or farm bites them, others just pretend to have sustained an injury. Our private investigators have seen countless cases where unscrupulous people pretend to be injured but are simply fine. But why?
Well, there are people out there who would prefer not to work. They just want to sit at home and do as little as possible, while still collecting most of their paychecks. They figure that they can do one hundred percent of their work and get one hundred percent of their pay or can do zero work and get eighty percent of their pay. For some, the latter constitutes a more enticing work-to-pay ratio. They still get most of their income; they simply do not have to work.
Indeed, plenty of Workmen’s Compensation Insurance attorneys help plenty of people who did sustain a real, debilitating injury or disease while on the job, in a vehicle accident, during a slip and fall incident, or when someone’s dog bit them. These individuals do deserve help for their medical care, time off work, property loss, and pain and suffering. Indeed, there are terrible insurance companies, lawyers, businesses, and people working in governmental agencies who have no problem denying these deserving individuals their just and due compensation.
Thus, in addition to having sustained a severe injury or illness, these hurting people must simultaneously fight just to have the insurance, governmental agency, and/or businesses cover their medical bills, lost wages/salary, damaged vehicles, etc. There are many law firms out there as well that also help people in need who really are hurt and who need legal help to get the pay and other benefits the law entitles them to.s
One of the best ways to determine if a person who says he is injured is fine is for a fraud private investigator to do a social media scan on them. Social media scans for Workers’ Compensation fraud are perfect, because they can scour the Internet and social media platforms to help find out what the “injured” person is up to. This is a favorite among insurance companies, law firms, employers, and governmental agencies alike, because our personal injury private detective can use them to help prove fraud or to exonerate innocent, truly injured individuals.
A social media scan is extremely helpful, because many people post photos and videos of themselves online engaging in everything from sports to doing skateboarding and motorcycle tricks. If they do not do it, then the chances that members of their families, their friends, or even just random people or cyber sleuths actively offering tips might post things online. This is because so many people willingly track themselves and voluntarily share all kinds of information about both them and others.
Social media scans information is so important for Workers’ Compensation Insurance fraud private investigations, because if the supposedly if the photos and videos show the injured individual engaging in activities that someone with real pain could not feasibly engage in. Videos and photos showing the nonworking employee doing these types of things will end up with the judge or board denying her/his/their personal claim. Social media scans are not the only useful tool in our fraud private detective’s bag of investigative tricks though.
When someone is truly injured at the workplace or in a car accident, logic tells us that they would consistently be acting as though they were in pain. They might be walking around slowly, using crutches, rolling around in wheelchairs, making frequent visits to doctors’ offices, etc.
If they are truly injured, they should not be out waterskiing, playing basketball, lifting heavy objects like packages or even their own children, going to the gym, or working at other jobs. These types of activities are not something that people who got hurt enough at work, in a car accident, or in a slip-and-fall incident at a store or someone else’s home should be engaging in until they have made a full recovery. Indeed, our insurance fraud private investigator is skilled at noticing these types of behaviors while “injured” and will get video footage and photos accordingly to strengthen our clients’ legal cases.
Surveillance is another fantastic investigative technique that our private eyes also use during personal injury private investigations. When an insurance company, employer/business, or law office asks our PI to follow a claimant in a Workers’ Compensation case, our legal team will go out there and see where the person is going. Whatever the individual is out doing, our legal staff at our private detective agency will try our absolute best to take plenty of photos and videos of it and carefully document it.
Lunchtimes, evenings, and weekends are often the best times to go to do surveillance both for cheating spouse private investigations and to determine whether a person is faking an injury. This is because these times are often the periods when a person is going to be out with friends, playing sports, dating, working out at the gym, etc. It is imperative for a private eye near me to conduct surveillance for all types of cases whenever the person of interest (POI) is most likely to be doing something wrong/undesirable. If the PI and client do not work together to narrow down these best times, then the investigation will stall because there will be nothing to take a video of.
When out on surveillance, a personal injury private detective must take care to document each move the employee who is claiming an injury makes. This is because one never knows what the POI will do, when the person will do it, or how the insurance companies, slip and fall attorneys, employers, and governmental agencies might view it. The individual could go from sitting down in a chair for one minute to excitedly jumping up and moving all around the next. Thus, more videos and photographs are always better than too few, because our clients can always discard what they do not want but going back and obtaining more from the same day/event is impossible. Never miss an excellent opportunity to shine!
Interviewing other people who have knowledge of the POI’s whereabouts and activities can also prove to be a fruitful activity. Family members, friends, coworkers, and even their enemies may have special knowledge of the individual’s whereabouts and activities. If they particularly dislike the person, these people might even be willing to help discreetly snag a few pictures for the Workmen’s Compensation fraud private investigator and give insider information on the person’s whereabouts and activities. However, this method is not without its risks.
If the individuals you interview about the POIs activities end up being close enough friends or family members with the person, then they might inform her/him/them as to what you are trying to do. This betrayal would completely blow your case and would burn you as a personal injury private detective for this case. So, this special method for personal injury private investigations, which is much more invasive than social media scans and discreet surveillance for fraud investigations, should be a method of last resort for PIs.
Aside from social media scans, interviewing family members/friends/coworkers, and surveillance, our Workmen’s Compensation private investigator can also do other things to help determine if someone is lying about an alleged injury or are indeed truly injured/sick. These include, but are not limited to, the following:
When someone who is injured goes missing or moves to avoid having a private eye conduct surveillance upon her/him/them, you can have a process server at our private investigation agency near me do a skip trace to try to locate where the individual moved to. This occurs when our PI agency uses special software to a special search on the person to track utilities, where they registered their new driver’s license to, etc.
If they just moved, it may take a few months to locate them. However, once their information shows up, we can resume following them and tracking their activities. That way we can help determine if they are truly injured or are indeed faking an injury or illness on someone else’s dime. If our best private eyes do not know where to locate them though, then surveillance will not be possible and the client’s quest to find the truth and the investigation will stall.
Also, if someone’s latest residential address information does not show up the first time around, we can gladly rerun it for our clients once a month for the next five months if they just call, e-mail, or text us and ask.
License plate checks are yet another legal service that our workplace injury private investigators can do for our clients. This is especially useful and important when there is an unknown vehicle, and the client needs to know those to whom it belongs. This can also help us locate missing people. If our skip tracer finds a home we think belongs to the POI and want to do surveillance there, but the skip trace does not absolutely confirm it as a valid address, a license plate check of cars or other vehicles in the driveway can help identify those to whom the cars are registered. Thus, that information can help tell our accident private investigator who lives at the address.
When someone uses a PO box to hide their address location to thwart surveillance of their property, our accident private detective can go to the post office and fill out a special form which allows us to obtain their new physical address. Then surveillance can resume once more, and we can see if they are faking their illness or injury or walking with crutches.
If a skip tracing fails or if the client knows that the person of interest just recently asked the U.S. Post Office to forward their mail to a new address, we can go to the post office closest to their last known residential address and request the information from the postal workers. Then we can go to their new home address and begin surveillance as part of our personal injury private investigations.
If you are a law firm, employer, insurance company, or work for a governmental agency and need assistance with a Workers’ Compensation Insurance fraud private investigation, then please give us a call. Our insurance fraud private investigator is adept at catching fakers and reporting back if the individual she is watching really does appear injured. As a disinterested neutral party, our professional licensure carries credibility and the legal authority to run social media background checks, conduct surveillance, and testify in court. We have a solid reputation and affordable prices, with our other noteworthy clients having already had the opportunity to properly vet our firm as the best PI agency they know and trust.
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