Unmanned Surveillance can provide insight into a claim where traditional surveillance cannot. Working in the insurance defense or SIU community, we realize that we working on cases that for one reason or another have drawn a red flag(s) or suspicions about the validity of the claim.
Recently, we received a request for three days of surveillance from an insurance defense attorney who just inherited a case involving a claimant claiming debilitating lower leg injuries from a car accident. The claimant claimed, his lower leg injuries barred him from working and driving a car. Two years prior, the same claimant submitted a WC claim for an elbow injury. During that time there were some questions surrounding the amount of treatment the claimant received from his previous doctors. To complicate matters further, there was a scheduled court date in twelve days.
Problem-With so little time left until the court date, when would be the best time and days to perform surveillance on the claimant to substantiate his claim.
Saving insurers thousands in wasted manned surveillance hours and helping attorneys win cases.
Action-We assessed the claimant’s residence to deploy a unmanned surveillance camera, we identified a location that provided an excellent viewpoint of entire residence. Later that night we deployed a unmanned surveillance camera and were able to obtain 24/7coverage of the activity of claimant’s residence.
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Our strategy was to let the unmanned surveillance camera run for six days, review the footage and hopefully document the claimant operating a vehicle or walking without assistance of a cane. Our strategy was to review the seven days footage from the unmanned surveillance camera and then determine when the best time would be to perform the three days of manned surveillance.
Solution- We reviewed the unmanned surveillance camera footage and to our surprise, we discovered the claimant only left the residence twice. Both times he left the residence was in the afternoon and he was on crutches and a relative was on hand to help getting him in and out of his vehicle.
One hundred and sixty-eight hours of coverage and approximately twenty-five minutes of potential activity.
We contacted our defense attorney and shared the results of the unmanned surveillance camera investigation, the attorney decided to cancel the scheduled the planned manned surveillance due to the fact, he believed that the claimant was most likely legitimately injured.
Success- We like to think that we are very good at what we do, but we must concede; if we did not use the unmanned surveillance camera we would have most likely performed three days of manned surveillance with absolutely no useful results. We would have to have been extraordinarily fortunate to select the exact days and times and be in place to document the total twenty-five minutes of activity at the residence. Our client received seven days of surveillance to make a decision that would have cost them significantly more money. To learn more about unmanned surveillance please contact us (862) 4371064.
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