Statements, Lies and Videotape:

A Private Investigator’s Guide to Conducting

Insurance Claim Investigations

 

COURSE DESCRIPTION:

Insurance fraud is the second costliest white-collar crime in America, after tax evasion. It is estimated that $80 billion is paid out each year in fraudulent insurance claims. It is estimated by the Coalition Against Insurance Fraud that the average American household pays over $950 a year in additional premiums to cover the cost of insurance fraud. According to industry estimates, healthcare fraud alone costs Americans $54 billion a year.  Private Investigators have traditionally always been used by the insurance industry as its “eyes and ears” in the field, independently collecting the facts surrounding insured losses.  Recently, however, we are becoming even more important to the overall health of the world’s insurers.

This course is designed to teach and develop techniques that are required in most insurance investigations, regardless if the investigator is working for the claimant or the insurer.  The course of instruction will introduce topics from interviewing methodologies, obtaining quality statements, pre-surveillance investigations, surveillance methods, to the legal aspects of surveillance and eventually preparing to give testimony at trial.