15 Keys To False Claims




























Claims - 15 Keys To False or Suspect Claims
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15 Keys To False or Suspect Claims

  • Claimant is never home to answer the telephone or is asleep and cannot be disturbed
  • Injury coincides with plant layoffs or closings
  • Tips from co-workers that subject is active in sports, another job, etc...
  • Rehabilitation reports show Claimant is suntanned, muscular, with calluses on hands, and grease under fingernails
  • Subject is in line for early retirement
  • No present organic basis for disability and all indications show a full recovery
  • Claimant has a history of self-employment or is a tradesman (carpenter, electrician, roofer, etc.) who might work for cash while fending disability
  • Claimant receives mail at a post office box and will not divulge resident's address
  • No witness to accident
  • Claimant has moved out of state or country
  • Excessive demands for compensation
  • A history of claims by Claimant
  • Dueling doctors, one insisting worker is disabled while the other reports no existing disability
  • Soft tissue injury (such as back sprain/strain) produce long disabilities
  • Injury or disability occurs during hunting season, etc...