Workers Comp Page

Premier Investigations are experts in AOE/COE (Arising Out of Employment / Course of Employment) Investigative Report & Investigation Procedure in Idaho and Washington.

Experience teaches us that Worker’s compensation claimants often exaggerate their disability claims to collect higher benefits. These facts are well known and may severely and immediately effect the bottom-line of even the largest corporation.
In many circumstances Workers Compensation Claims are incorrect or are misleading. We at Premier investigations are experts at determining how the claimant is adhering to restrictions or progressing through the healing process.
Many of our clients use us not only when they are suspicious, but whenever they have a claim. Professional video surveillance is one of the best ways to make a fair and impartial investigation of a worker’s compensation claim.

Signs of a fraudulent workers compensation claim:

• Claimant is never home to answer the phone or is “sleeping and cannot be disturbed.”
• Injury coincides with layoffs or a plant closing.
• All indications are that the subject has made a full recovery.
• Sketchy details or discrepancies about how the injury occurred.
• Employee misses medical appointments.
• Disability beyond that normally associated with claimed injury.
• Claimant has a history of self-employment and/or is a tradesman (carpenter, electrician, etc.) who might readily work for cash while feigning disability.
• Claimant receives mail at a post office box and will not divulge the actual address of his/her residence.
• “Dueling Doctors.” One says the claimant is disabled, the other says no.
• Rehab reports indicate a healthy-looking claimant.
• Not reporting the injury promptly.