Mchenry Investigative Services

07/05/2012

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07/05/2012

HAPPY 4th of JULY!

06/04/2012

This is pretty cool! Can I get a pardon from all my debt? Please Mr. President, it was done for the Banks...

Minnesota fifth-grader Tyler Sullivan played hooky from school last Friday — but he had an excuse no one was likely to question. Tyler, who was attending a campaign speech from the president that his dad was introducing, got a hand-written note from Obama himself. No word o …

05/29/2012

If someone comes to your door and says they are a Police Officer and want to search your house. Don't let them in and call the Police to verify. Ask for an ID, just don't let them flash a badge.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2012/05/28/2853223/2-sought-who-posed-as-police-in.html

Fresno County Sheriff's deputies are looking for two men posing as police officers who they say are responsible for two home robberies last week.

05/26/2012

05/24/2012

MOM OF THE YEAR... NOT!

http://www.ksee24.com/news/local/Woman-Forces-Daughter-to-Shoplift-Refuses-to-Help-When-Caught-153296285.html

What's worse, using your kid as a shoplifting accomplice or refusing to pick her up from the police station when she gets collared?

05/23/2012

http://pifeed.com/post/man-loses-22000-in-new-policing-for-profit-case/

In this latest case, a Monterey police officer took $22,000 off the driver -- even though he had committed no crime. Just because the man had to much money in his possession.

05/22/2012

FRESNO AMBER ALERT!!!

http://abclocal.go.com/kfsn/story?section=news/local&id=8671076

Parlier police are looking for a two kidnappers who they say attacked two teens and took off with one of them.

05/22/2012

INDICATORS OF WORKERS' COMPENSATION FRAUD

Claimant is disgruntled, soon-to-retire, or facing imminent firing or layoff

Employee is involved in seasonal work that is about to end

Employee took unexplained or excessive time off prior to injury

Employee takes more time off than the claimed injury seems to warrant

Employee is nomadic and has a history of short term employment

Employee is new on the job

Employee changes physician when a release for work has been issued

Employee has a history of reporting subjective injuries

Review of a rehab report describes the employee as being muscular, well-tanned, with calloused hands and grease under the fingernails

First notification of injury or claim made after employee is terminated or laid off

Has several other family members also receiving workers' compensation benefits

Demands quick settlement decisions

Demands quick payments for medical providers, etc.

Is unusually familiar with workers' compensation claim handling procedures and laws

Is consistently uncooperative

Employee refuses to allow visits or rehabilitation at home or specifies plenty of warning time prior to visit
Employee, participates in contact sports or physically demanding hobbies

After injury, employee is never home or spouse/relative answering phone states the employee "just stepped out" or may have to contact him/her by pager

Return calls to residence have strange or unexpected background noises which indicate that it may not be a residence

Employee protests about returning to work and never seems to improve

Employee cancels or fails to keep appointment, or refuses a diagnostic procedure to confirm an injury

http://www.mchenrypi.com/insurancelegal.htm

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05/22/2012

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/nine-major-ways-criminals-use-facebook.html?page=1

Internet security analysts warn that Facebook is a hotbed for online crime. Here are 9 common ways that criminals use Facebook.

05/21/2012

If you have one of those credit cards you just tap vs. swipe, watch this... NOW!

http://pifeed.com/post/watch-this-is-how-easy-it-is-for-thieves-to-steal-everything-in-your-wallet/

The idea that you could be pick-pocketed without anyone actually picking your pocket at all is frightening enough. But seeing it in action is a whole different story.