Example One:
A male claimant had a life insurance claim where he was receiving approximately $8,000 per month to the age of 65. At the time of the claim he was 47. So, for the remainder of the claim period there was a potential to pay out $1.2m. However, a several hundred dollar online desktop investigation identified that this male subject had been running a business while in receipt of the insurance money.
Despite the male subject’s best efforts to hide the registration of the business (it was in another person’s name), desktop enquiries were successful in connecting him to the ownership, management and day-to-day running of the online organisation. Surveillance would not have ever established he was actively involved in an online business. But an online desktop investigation, coupled with the strategic deployment of surveillance to cover advertised demonstrations, achieved the result that surveillance alone could not.
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