Ways To Detect Fraudulent Workers Comp Texas

By Author: Janice Ladden
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Let us face the fact that there are certain fraudulent individuals who will file fraudulent workers compensation claims and beat up our system. However, preventing this to happen is always better than trying to resolve this matter even before it has been done. As an employer, your responsibility is to weed out liabilities from your organization and focus on people who clearly deserve more.

If you know the signs or the ways to detect these fraudulent acts, it can save you from losing your assets and prevent you from paying higher premiums, which is actually a result of fraudulent claims. The first sign would be the failure to report in a prompt manner. Genuinely injured employees usually report their claim in a prompt manner. The late reporting in itself should not cause an alarm but it should warn you to be cautious and review the claim.

In general, injured employees can recall the clear details of the injury unless medically supported that the claimant will have a hard time remembering the facts. Vague answers to questions should warrant your suspicions and keep an eye on the claim progress if you want to be on ...
... the safe side of things. All the more that you should be cautious if the claimant's injury has no witness though this is not necessarily fraud.

The presence of other signs alongside the lack of witness should cause an alarm to your side as the employer. If you are in Texas, more often than not there are medical appointments to go to and if he often misses this appointment it should warn you of something not good behind the scene. An example for this would be failure to attend the Texas rehab and physical therapy requested by medical professionals.

When you investigate further the claim of a certain ‘injured' person and he keeps changing his story, it can become a good reason to suspect that he has a fraudulent claim for workers comp Texas has in its legislation. The discrepancy in his stories should raise your suspicion and dig deeper into this person's claim.

You should also suspect if his claim occurred on the first day of the week. Genuinely injured employees will report what happened to them as soon as the injury permits them to. They should also be able to attend Texas rehab and physical therapy with medical witness that they did.

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