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Thread: Progressive Insurance (Auto)- Sued in a multi-million dollar suit for investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext.

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    Progressive Ins. (Auto)- sued in a multi-million dollar suit for an investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext. Company halted all surveillance for over a year, spent millions revamping their vendor list requirements, and even implemented a brand new SIU department. They now handle ALL surveillance requests, no cases come from adjusters at that company anymore.

    Not only did that hurt those of us who enjoyed Progressive's case load, but the Progressive investigator only lost his License ...The company's Insurance had to pay out to the Claimant. Along with Progressive...Big Bucks that probably could have been saved by proper training. (and that was a Licensed Investigator) it could be worse with a greenie jumping in and again costing tons of hard working investigators money... just FYI

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    Re: Progressive Insurance (Auto)- Sued in a multi-million dollar suit for investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext.

    Wow, unfortunate outcome there.

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    Re: Progressive Insurance (Auto)- Sued in a multi-million dollar suit for investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext.

    Aaron;
    Do you know specifics on which rules he violated?

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    Re: Progressive Insurance (Auto)- Sued in a multi-million dollar suit for investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext.

    I will have to go back through my file to check, to get the exact details correct...but I know it was entrapment/coercion of some kind, as in getting the claimant to do something that would normally not occur in their daily activities or causing an activity. There were also multiple ethical violations.

    Now there is NO PRETEXTING of any kind, if you see nothing for the whole 8 hrs of surveillance you just break off and write your report, no neighborhood canvas or digging deeper...easy,but kind of sad if you are one for keeping up your % of closed and operationally successful cases.

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    Re: Progressive Insurance (Auto)- Sued in a multi-million dollar suit for investigator who allegedly violated rules during his pretext.

    I have seen cases like this before. It always pays to play by the rules. Also closer background checks on employees can help in this situation.

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