Employee theft is rampant these days. The numbers don’t lie. All the top investigative and security agencies have the same statistics. From 1969 to 2006, the theft rate in most companies was about 15%. The figures has risen over the past years and is now holding steady at a staggering 75%. It isn’t always as straightforward…
Most industry giants rely on patented and protected information for their edge, and corporate espionage is always present within the ranks of major players. A recent conviction highlights just how serious the consequences can be for the theft of intellectual property and trade secrets – for the victims and the spies. Recently, information was stolen…
When an executive at a multi-billion-dollar corporation was awarded disability payments for worker’s comp claims, we were hired by the insurance company to follow the executive and make sure that his claims were legitimate and no insurance fraud was taking place. We didn’t know that an otherwise routine surveillance job would lead us from Los…
We all pay a price for worker’s comp fraud, but businesses shoulder the majority of the costs and responsibly. Businesses pay higher worker’s comp premiums because insurers pass the high costs of fraud onto their policyholders. Often the premium increases are large and very damaging —especially for smaller businesses that can least afford higher premiums.…
