False Sickness investigations

M.R. Investigations specialists in False Sickness Investigations.

We are regularly called upon to perform surveillance on employees for a number of reasons. Most commonly it’s to find out if an employee is really as sick as they make out. People taking unnecessary time off from work claiming to be sick when they are not, costs companies in the UK millions each year and if you are running a business this will be costing you money in sick pay and having to employ someone to do the work of the person claiming to be sick. This is where we can help. I can honestly say that nine times out of ten when a client has become suspicious of one their employees sickness claims and employed us to place them under surveillance, the clients suspicion has been proved to be correct.

Above is an image taken a few years ago now when M.R.Investigations surveillance team were asked to carry out a surveillance in Coventry. The Subject of enquiry, had been off sick for a number of weeks
claiming to be suffering from an injury at work. Not only was he raking in the sickness pay but he was also going to make a substantial claim against his employers. We found that not only was he attending a college twice a week to learn how to be a plumber, on the other three days of the week he was actually working as a plumber and what we had unearthed was his new business venture getting off the ground.

When faced with our overwhelming evidence, which consisted of many hours of video and stills as well as a full written report, the employee handed in his resignation and his claim against the company was withdrawn.

In the image below the person we were watching was claiming long term sick pay and compensation for a work related back injury. As we were following him he happened across two young lads outside a warehouse unit in difficulty with a fork lift truck.

Being the helpful chap that he was and himself an experienced fork lift driver he offered to help and certainly put his back into it!

False sickness investigations in Coventry & Warwickshire

We carry out false sickness investigations throughout Coventry, Warwickshire, West Midlands and beyond.

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