What are the different types of private investigators?
For all kinds of investigations, surveillance is pretty handy, whether you're doing a workers comp fraud or anything else. With workers comp all you're trying to determine is whether the guy is in the kind of physical condition he claims in his comp claim. That can only be done through observation. With domestic cases, you do surveillance because you want to see who they're cheating with, or maybe they're out using drugs or alcohol and they have got a kid in the car. In physical surveillance, you have investigators who specialize in surveillance. They know how to follow people without being caught. You have investigators that know public records, and ultimately they specialize in public records. They can pour over things and find that little kernel of information that will lead you to what you want. You also have investigators, and I actually have one guy on my staff who does bank fraud investigations whereby we are contracted to several banks. You have investigators that will be doing anti-stalking type cases. If you can think it up, there's an area of investigation for it. Anti-piracy, Computer crimes, Identity theft, and other things like that. A lot of people will want to hire a private investigator to make their case for them.
