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Insurers hire private investigators when there are telltale signs of fraud
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Insurers would not hesitate to spend thousands of dollars to hire private investigators, who are paid about $2,000 for a 10-hour day.
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When you make a personal injury claim on multiple insurance policies, you could be put on the radar by insurance firms.
An insurer which has suspicions about the claim would send a circular to all other players in the industry to check if they had similar abnormalities linked to the same claimant.
