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Last month in surveillance…

As we all know, January started off relatively mild in regard to the weather.  This kept claimant activity rate, collectively, from falling too far under what we consider to be average.  Many cases followed a claimant’s typical routine, however tailored to that individual’s lifestyle. One surveillance case in particular took us into the thumb where Last month in surveillance…

Surveillance Investigation Mishaps

For the most part, a day of a surveillance investigation goes without any incidents.  However, there are days when something goes horribly wrong.  Last week, I experienced a mishap that literally compromised an entire day of my surveillance investigation.  The mishap was definitely not a rookie mistake, as I have approximately two decades of surveillance Surveillance Investigation Mishaps

Psychological Injury Claims

Investigating psychological injury claims may appear to be a difficult task when comparing to an individual who has made injury claims.  A Psychological injury claim can include everything from someone who has made claims of memory loss, a traumatic brain injury that results in the function or the performance of an individual.  As professionals, we Psychological Injury Claims

The Personality Battlefield – Avoiding Mines in Insurance Fraud Investigations

A Study Review on Insurance Fraud by Samantha Castillo When working insurance fraud cases, our company addresses a wide range of targets, from preachers to convicted criminals. Current research, “The Dark Triad and Willingness to Commit Insurance Fraud” suggests that certain people are more likely to commit insurance fraud based upon dark personality traits (Modic The Personality Battlefield – Avoiding Mines in Insurance Fraud Investigations

Casualty Surveillance on Back Friday

Conducting Casualty Surveillance on Black Friday BLACK FRIDAY!!!  What a wonderful, and opportunistic, time to run casualty surveillance on all those claim files…right???  I used to think so. Here is a brief history of the circus that is commonly referred to as, “Black Friday”.  The earliest iteration of a similar sort of “Black Friday” phrase Casualty Surveillance on Back Friday

Where does the Difference Lie Between Private Investigators and Police Officers?

By: Samantha Castillo It is often assumed that the roles of private investigators and police officers are interchangeable, with the key difference being that one operates solo and the other is part of an organization. This assumption is very far from actuality. Police officers hold entirely different powers and often are called into action when Where does the Difference Lie Between Private Investigators and Police Officers?

How Military Surveillance Techniques and Civilian Surveillance Correlate – Part 2

This next entry will be a continuance of the previous entry highlighting two of the most important acronyms utilized in the army during surveillance operations and how I incorporate them into civilian surveillance: SLCTOP and OCOKA. In the last entry, we covered SLCTOP (Security, Location, Targets, Observation and Position Improvement). In this entry we will How Military Surveillance Techniques and Civilian Surveillance Correlate – Part 2