WORKERS COMP FRAUD / INSURANCE FRAUD INVESTIGATIONS

• This type of investigation helps insurance companies and large corporations uncover persons claiming false injuries and who receive disability compensation.  There is no substitute for solid visual evidence to save companies thousands of dollars in fraudulent claims.  Our complete investigation includes:

• Workers Comp can best be described as when an employee gets a work-related injury, or illness. Workers comp insurance then covers the employee when a work-related accident takes place. This insurance ensures that the employee’s medical bills and expenses along with pay are reimbursed. Some people take advantage of the system, including the employee, employer and even the health care provider. Taking advantage of the system, would be considered workers compensation fraud. Workers compensation fraud is when an employee or employer lies about an injury or illness that took place in the workplace. Fraud occurs when someone makes a false report knowing that the information they are giving or obtaining is not true and falls under breaking the law.

• Conservatively, fraud steals $80 billion a year across all lines of insurance.

• Fraud comprises about 10 percent of property-casualty insurance losses and loss adjustment expenses each year.

• Property-casualty fraud thus equals about $34 billion each year. 

• We can provide the truth you need.

THEFT OF TIME

• Time theft occurs when an employee in a work place accepts pay from their employer when they have not actually put the time in or have not done the work. When the employee is not doing the work they are responsible for it is considered theft of time.

  • Non work related internet time

  • Extended breaks

  • Having a friend/ co-worker clock you in

  • Constant personal phone calls (non-work related)

  • Lying about the amount of hours worked

DIVERSION INVESTIGATIONS (GREY MARKET)

• Diversion Investigations (Grey Market) – Investigation of stolen property from your supply chain and sold illegally in which the goods are sold outside of typical or normal channels. Such as online, flea markets, craigslist or out of a car trunk or van. Often among this list is electronics, clothing, baby formula, razors and jewelry. Most goods sold in the “Grey Market” are acquired through theft or fraud.   These Grey Market items can be identified at times by noting a lower price than suggested pricing, a foreign language on the packaging or item itself, and a lack of warranty.

• ELPS PDA can provide detailed investigations for these matters using our trained staff to conduct surveillances, make purchases and through our investigation process we can collect evidence and identify the cause of your loss of profits and product.   All of this information can be shared with the local or state law enforcement agencies to help prosecute the individuals involved and recover as much merchandise as possible

RESIDENCY INVESTIGATIONS

• In Pennsylvania, a child who lives with someone other than a parent can attend school in the caregiver’s town of residence if the caregiver provides appropriate legal documentation to show dependency or guardianship or a sworn statement with specified information. Someone who knowingly provides false information in the sworn statement for the purpose of enrolling a child in a school district for which the child is not eligible is guilty of a summary offense. Violators face paying tuition costs, up to 240 hours of community service, a fine of up to $300, and paying court costs (24 Pa. Cons. Stat. § 13-1302).

• When a parent intentionally provides an incorrect address to a public school to meet residency requirements to have their child attend a certain school district, ELPS PDA has a proven track record of identifying where the student actually resides. We provide this investigative service to school districts, so they can take the necessary action.

TEEN INVESTIGATIONS

• Children are our most important asset.  We nurture them, watch as they grow and hope that they make careful and responsible choices. Professional Investigations can discreetly offer you both support and peace of mind by ensuring they are making the right decisions.  What they do, where they go and how safely do they get there….  Don’t be the last to know.

ELDER ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS

• The loss of independence is among the hardest things we face when getting older. Often times, loved ones have well-grounded concerns about the safety and security of their aging family members who live alone or have begun to exhibit concerning behavior.

• If you suspect someone is being abused, contact us immediately. Our professional agents are skilled in elder abuse investigations and will get you the answers you need as soon as possible. We are passionate about putting an end to this unsavory activity and will work with you to resolve the situation.

UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATIONS

• We can provide numerous undercover operations. For example, we can provide undercover operatives to work in office, retail, warehouse settings, etc. to get inside intelligence on what may be occurring to help identify, fix and prosecute profit losses.  These undercover investigators often infiltrate an individual or a suspected insurgent group, posing as a person interested in purchasing illegal goods or services with the final goal of obtaining information about their assigned target.

MISSING PERSONS

• A missing person is categorized as “any individual who has disappeared and whose status as alive or dead cannot be confirmed as his or her location and fate are not known.” These individuals may go missing voluntarily or possibly due to an accident, a crime, or a death in a location where they cannot be found such as a body of water. While a majority of the missing person cases received are solved quickly, some can linger for years or even decades as in many jurisdictions, relatives and third parties may not deal with a missing person’s assets until their death is considered proven by law and a formal death certificate issued. Most law enforcement agencies will often heavily stress that the case should be reported as early as possible to gather as much evidence as possible and to stay on the trail of the missing. Tackling missing persons across international borders has led to databases being created and shared from the International Centre for Missing & Exploited Children (ICMEC), the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children in the US, Missing People in the UK, Child Focus in Belgium, and The Smile of the Child in Greece.

• A person who has disappeared, with their location or fate unknown to anyone. Their status could be dead or alive but cannot be confirmed as their whereabouts are unknown. Missing persons can go missing:

  • Due to a crime

  • Death

  • Drugs / alcohol

  • Mental illness

  • Abduction

  • Domestic violence

  • Run Away

• Law enforcement agencies provide safety for their entire community; they often fail to prioritize missing person’s cases over more tangible crimes. In fact, the Columbus Monthly reports that 90,000 people remain missing in the United States today.
  According to the National Institute Of Justice (NIJ), 17,000 law enforcement agencies operate within the U.S., many of which don’t have the time or money to tackle missing person’s reports.
  ELPS Private Detective Agency can dedicate the time and resources to finding your missing loved one

• PRODUCT LIABILITY INVESTIGATIONS

  Product liability is an area of law in which manufacturers, distributors, suppliers, retailers, and others product makers who sell to the public are held responsible for the injuries those products cause. Although the word “product” has broad connotations, product liability as an area of law is traditionally limited to products in the form of tangible personal property. When it comes to product liability in the United States, the most common claims are Negligence, Strict Liability, Breach Of Warranty, and various Consumer Protection. The majority of these claims are determined at the state level and they can vary from state to state. Each type of claim requires different elements relevant to each case in order to be proven and to present a successful claim. According to Section 2 of the Restatement (Third) of Torts, the three main distinguishing types of product liability claims are manufacturing defect, design defect and a failure to warn. Manufacturing defects are those that occur in the manufacturing process and usually involve poor-quality materials or shoddy workmanship. The design defects occur where the product design is inherently dangerous or useless regardless of how carefully the product is manufactured. This can be proved by showing that the product fails to satisfy the ordinary consumer expectations as to what constitutes a “safe product”, or that the risks of the product heavily outweigh the benefits. Failure to warn defects can arise in products which carry inherent nonobvious dangers which could be mitigated through adequate warnings to the user, and that these dangers are present regardless of how well the product is manufactured and designed for its intended purpose.

  LOSS PREVENTION

  With over 30 years of experience in the Loss Prevention / Security industry servicing Fortune 500 companies, ELPS Private Detective Agency can provide as much – or as little – consulting, training, hardware implementation and case investigation services as you need to help ensure your company’s success.

  We specialize in all areas of employee dishonesty and other acts that negatively affect your company’s profitability.

  Are you experiencing register shortages, deposit irregularities, inventory discrepancies or unexplained transactions?  These are just a few of the many key indicators indicating theft or fraud is occurring in your work place.

  ELPS Private Detective Agency prides itself on being able to provide small to midsize companies with services needed to succeed at a modest and reasonable cost. We can be your outsourced Loss Prevention Department, providing weekly, monthly or quarterly visits, audits and on call availability.

  For further information please call us to help you prevent, deter and identify the underlying cause of your unnecessary profit losses.