That's what we call pain and suffering. And the money you get is tax free. When he arrived at this destination, he was observed leaping from the tractor. Piled on a sled, which the tractor was towing, were several stacks of logs that the claimant unloaded by himself. As a result of the videotape, the man was ruled physically able and ordered to return to work.
Surveillance is the most effective tool that can be used to investigate workers' compensation fraud.
With cameras, some small enough to fit on a pair of common eye glasses, audio recorders, actual following of the claimant to undercover techniques, irrefutable evidence can be obtained to authenticate or contradict the claimed injury. A self-insured company faced with an overwhelming number of disability claims from a particular region fought back by implementing a policy that included several days of surveillance on anyone going out on a workers' compensation claim. This included habitual malingers as well as first time claimants. Furthermore, if the employee was going to take off on disability they had better be disabled and have the medical proof to substantiate a prolonged period of absence. It should be noted that deployment of an investigator, or surveillance team, should never be a one-time application as it may take several random observations to ultimately expose a pattern of behavior contrary to what the injured worker's limitations may be.