Surveillance video helped convict a South Florida employee who smacked herself in the head with part of a fire sprinkler and claimed it was a work-related injury. But payers should not rely on video as the solution for uncovering fraudulent workers’ comp claims, an attorney said on Thursday.
Instead, employers and payers should ask the claimant basic questions, such as how did the accident happen and who witnessed it, according to J. Bradley Young, a workers’ comp defense attorney with Harris Dowell Fisher & Dowell in St. Louis.
Young said that too often he sees acci...
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