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Protect your company’s resources and reputation by uncovering fraudulent or exaggerated claims with precision and discretion.
Our Workers’ Compensation Investigations confirm claim validity through timely fact-finding, documentation, and surveillance, ensuring every case is handled objectively and lawfully.
Workers’ compensation exists to protect employees who are genuinely injured and deserve care while recovering. However, when these benefits are abused, it can cost organizations millions in inflated premiums and false claims.
A professional, independent investigation identifies red flags early, safeguarding your company from financial and legal exposure.
Common types of fraud we investigate include:
Staged or falsified workplace incidents
Exaggerated or fabricated injuries
Malingering or prolonged absence without cause
Double-dipping or working another job while on leave
False medical documentation
Workers’ compensation insurance protects injured employees by providing essential benefits to aid their recovery.
Most participants in the system are honest, treating workers’ comp as a necessary safeguard. However, a small number exploit this system for personal gain, causing significant harm. Workers’ comp fraud costs American businesses tens of billions of dollars annually, draining profits and driving up insurance premiums.
When fraud is suspected, employers need impartial investigators who deliver clear, objective intelligence—helping organizations make informed decisions and protect their bottom line.
By the definition of “internal,” internal investigators cannot possibly conduct an objective investigation into a claim of workers’ compensation fraud. After all, an internal employee directly represents the company, which stands to lose money in profits and in insurance costs.
This type of investigator cannot fundamentally be objective. Because worker’s compensation fraud investigations can have a tricky narrative of “they said-they said,” in which employer and employee are trying to convince external parties of one narrative or another.
This is why an internal investigator can prove problematic. Their internal status gives them an implicit bias towards the corporation or organization in what could be characterized as a direct or indirect stake in the outcome of the workers’ compensation investigation.
When an employer makes the decision to terminate an employee based on a biased investigation, the consequences can snowball. Employees might feel compelled to file a wrongful termination suit against the employer.
This can be especially consequential if the employee can provide the medical records to support their worker’s compensation claim. When worker’s compensation cases go to court, an internal investigator might also be determined to be implicitly biased in the eyes of the court.
If the court rules that the employer did not do their due-diligence before terminating the employee, the litigation costs and settlement(s) can devastate a business.
A private investigator is the perfect investigator for a worker’s compensation fraud investigation. Their independence, combined with diversified experience is the perfect resume for this type of investigation.
Through their licensure by the state in which they are headquartered, private investigators have access to similar databases like that of law enforcement to develop leads and provide crucial context to the background checks investigation. Employers who conduct worker’s compensation fraud investigations internally can expect that the information they garner will be scrutinized heavily by a court.
When a third-party investigator documents the workers’ comp fraud, it becomes harder for counsel to discredit this evidence in any subsequent litigation. At Lauth Investigations International, our private investigators are only loyal to the truth.
Private investigators use surveillance technology to get the answers you need in a workers’ compensation investigation. Once reasonable suspicion has been established, there needs to be a fundamental understanding of the condition outlined in an employee’s workers’ comp claim.
Through this due-diligence, the private investigator will be able to clearly identify any contradictions to the workers’ comp claim in the employee’s behavior.
We document the movements of the relevant subjects in these cases so that leadership will have a clear picture of an employee’s level of mobility or health and whether or not that is congruent with the claim they made when filing for workers’ compensation. In tandem with our objectivity, evidence gathered during surveillance stands strong against accusations of sensationalism or doctoring the evidence.
Hiring a private investigator for your workers’ compensation case not only ensures unbiased investigations but can also cut costs. Internal probes involve extensive document reviews, employee interviews, and hours of labor, which can quickly escalate expenses.
The Fulbright Litigation Trends Survey shows internal investigations already cost companies a median of $1.4 million, with many spending over $5 million. While large corporations may absorb these costs, smaller businesses risk financial strain without a dedicated internal team.
Outsourcing investigations to experienced professionals provides cost-effective, thorough, and impartial results.
At Lauth Investigations International, our workers’ comp investigation team is comprised of former military and law enforcement with diverse experience in intelligence-gathering.
We used verified databases and proven methodology to provide our clients with crisp, crucial context in workers’ compensation investigations. Through this verified intelligence, private investigators can identify sites for surveillance, where they can document an employee’s movements and verify if they are behaving in accordance with their worker’s compensation claim.
Because private investigators only have loyalty to the truth, the evidence they gather stands up to a higher degree of scrutiny in any subsequent litigation. As part of our worker’s compensation fraud investigations, we provide detailed reports and expert recommendations.
If your corporation is experiencing persistent problems with workers’ compensation fraud, there might be a larger issue in your corporate culture.
Corporate culture is how policies, leadership, and workplace dynamics interact to create a work-life balance. By improving your corporate culture, you can reduce instances of workers’ compensation fraud and keep compensation insurance premiums low. Our corporate culture audit program can be customized to your corporation’s needs and identify the contributing factors to a declining corporate culture.
We can evaluate the entire corporation or just a single department and provide you with detailed recommendations on how to improve your business from within. Contact Lauth Investigations today for a free quote on our corporate culture audit and learn about how it can identify the problems that drag down profits and morale.
Trust us for the truth. Reach out to a Lauth private investigator today to discuss your needs,
allow us to get to the bottom of your crisis, and usher you toward clarity and resolution.
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