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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...
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