Category: Industry
Elder Abuse and Nursing Home Investigations
The nursing home industry has failed to police themselves and the state agencies that regulate the facilities have failed to police themselves or the facilities. This lack of self-policing is causing families to come forward in increasing numbers to file lawsuits against the nursing home facilities. Large jury awards are being handed out in these [...]
Digital Forensics in Anticipation of Litigation
Computers and the nearly ubiquitous smart phones (iPhones, BlackBerries, devices using the Palm and Android operating system, etc.) have become indispensable communication devices in today’s digitally connected society. An endless torrent of electronic information that makes possible telephone calls, email, text messaging and Internet access passes through a vast network supporting these devices. The data [...]
Reviewing and Understanding Autopsy Reports
Voltaire said ‘To the living we owe respect, but to the dead we owe only the truth.’ This is the definitive task of the medicolegal death investigator and forensic pathologist. The course of the death investigation has multiple phases including: scene investigation body assessment medical records and the forensic autopsy This is finalized in three [...]
Asset Tracing & Investigative Techniques | Part I
Victims of fraud routinely seek monetary compensation or retribution. This series of articles will focus on the investigative techniques used to trace assets lost to fraud. How assets are identified and located is determined by the nature of the legal proceedings, and such proceedings may create the opportunity to trace assets held by fraudsters or [...]
New York City Passes Tougher Process Server Licensing and Regulations
The deliberate failure by some process servers to deliver the notification of a court filing followed by a false affidavit of successful delivery has been described “as a rising problem” in New York City and was outlined in our article “Fraudulent Service of Process Continues to Plague New York” published in October 2009. In response, [...]
Repo Man Might Face Extinction in the Future: Repossession Agents Under Fire!
The National Consumer Law Center released “Repo Madness: How Automobile Repossessions Endanger Owners, Agents and the Public.” It is a publication promoting legislation restricting repo work to sworn law enforcement officers. It is posted on-line at: http://www.nclc.org/issues/auto/content/Repo_madness_Report_0310.pdf Here is the included press release via PR NEWSWIRE Repo Madness Threatens Consumers BOSTON, March 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — [...]
Surveillance: A Story from the Field
We got an assignment to drive up north close to the state line to work a surveillance involving a guy who was working light duty a few hours a day, two or three days a week because he had been injured on the job. He worked for a small manufacturing company near the edge of [...]
Private Investigator Databases: What the GLBA Really Means to You
In the mid-1990s to early 2000’s, we entered an era when the “Information Age” precipitated a shift in the private investigations industry then made up largely of “Gumshoe Investigators” to one whose population was being replaced by a new age of “Internet Investigators.” Database companies were just starting to come online and I remember gaining [...]
