What are some red flags on claimant fraud?
Posted by Shirley Elsen - Thursday, February 21, 2008
Workers’ Compensation fraud could be a significant contributor not only for the employer but to the nation’s annual insurance.
- Claimant can never be reached at home
- Tips from Co-Workers
- Injury Description is not consistant with normal job duties
- No Witnesses to the accident
- Date, time, and place of injury is unknown
- Company layoffs
- Early Retirement
- Same attorney or physician who handled previous claims
- Claimant refuses diagnostic procedures
- Summer vacation plans. Hunting or Hobby seasons
- Claimant making company complaints
- Claimant moving out of state
- Cross out, White out, and erasure marks
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