Tip 13: When we receive your surveillance assignment
When our surveillance agency receives your surveillance assignment this is what we do
Tip 12: Confirming the claimant is the claimant
You have to be very careful you have the right person. If a claimant chain smokes, but your claimant does not smoke at all, that is a big red flag.
Tip 11: Do not order your surveillance too late
We all know surveillance is a great tool in getting a settlement. The jury also loves to watch the claimant use their alleged injury without a medical device.
Tip 10: Running Data on the Claimant
We run data and do a comprehensive background check and email a copy to our client. The data will give us the last known address the data thinks the claimant lives at.
Tip 9: Hiring the right Private Investigative Agency
Most Importantly: Is the agency licensed to do business in Florida? Need Surveillance is. Our agency license number is 3200279. We have liability and work comp insurance with El Dorado Insurance Agency.
Tip 8: Training the field agents to be a better surveillance investigator
Most private investigators are ex-law enforcement and start interviewing witnesses. I did the same thing. I was a police officer in Miami Beach, Florida. A lawyer retained me to conduct interviews on witnesses to auto accidents. Later in life, I focused on working in surveillance only.
Tip 7: The alleged injury of the claimant
The alleged injury always dictates how the investigator obtains the video of the alleged injury.
Tip 6: Obtaining Covert Video with a Hidden Camera
The private investigator can record many minutes of video inside a restaurant, a shopping mall, a gym, or an office building without the claimant having a clue that he/she is being recorded.
Tip 5: Surveillance as one man or 2 men, and the pros and cons of each
There are many legitimate and strong arguments to be made for hiring a two man crew for surveillance.
Tip 4: Working a surveillance in a rural area.
There are many items to consider when working surveillance in a rural area. Here we address some of those concerns.