Knoxville Private Investigator Blog Moving

I’m moving the host of this blog to my website.  The new blog location is: www.StricklandPI.com/blog.
 Bear with me for a few days as I try to make a smooth transition.  There’s a few new posts already up.

2008 Insurance Fraud Fighting Resolutions

The Barry Zalma’s Insurance Fraud Letter has started 2008 off with a bang, an opening shot at combating insurance fraud.  You can read the entire article here.

He writes:
  “As the US economy slows and the value of the dollar drops people turn to insurance fraud as a “safe” crime where their financial problems can be [...]

Seeking Public Input Regarding Daycare Investigations

I’m looking at the type of services I plan to offer this year and can’t deny there has been an interest in my blog entries about daycare investigations.  So I’m testing the market.
If you would be interested in purchasing background report(s) on Knox County, TN daycares, please email me with “Daycare” in the subject [...]

As Simple as Accountability

As I’m thinking about last year I remember a conversation I had with a North Carolina businessman.   He was trying to find out more about the investigations field and my particular business.  I was explaining some of the cases I had worked on from checking out a priest to determining whether a business was engaged [...]

Move Cases Quicker by Managing Medical Records

Another timely article for law firms looking to re-evaluate practice for 2008, was originally posted 3/27/07 at Trial Lawyer Resource Center by plaintiff’s attorney (and avid blogger) David Swanner, Why It’s So Hard to Move Cases.  Swanner analyzes the just one thing left phenomenon, something his friend termed “Litigation Constipation.”  Swanner, if you’ve read any [...]

Not Fraud To Claim Injuries Were From One Car Accident When They Were Really From Another

This entry should be interesting to insurance defense attorneys and insurance adjusters.  It came from Rogak Report Newsletter which I subscribe to.  The full name of the newsletter is:  The Rogak Report: The Most Useful Publication In The Insurance Claims Industry.   The insurance defense attorney who writes it, Lawrence Rogak is based in New York, [...]

New Year’s Resolutions and Your Law Firm

If your law firm is making resolutions for change in the New Year here are some suggestions written by Robert Schwartz titled The Better, Smarter Way. 
Civil laws have changed nationwide in the last decade, and some of those changes were dramatic. On the surface, those changes appeared primarily only to effect consumer’s rights of [...]

Lying Eyes?

Most people think they can spot a liar when they see one.  Here’s an article that was published by Illinois, private investigator, Keith McRae with some tips on the subject.  
In business, politics or romance, it would be nice to know when, and if, we are being lied to.
Private investigators deal with deception on a daily [...]

Ways To Prevent Child Abuse

I wrote an article on daycare abuse prompted by the Noah’s Ark incident recently, it has been ruled that the two women involved with this incident will have their case tried in grand court.  They are being charged with felony child neglect. There’s been another news story recently, in which a foster dad choked and [...]

This Black Friday Be On the Lookout for Black Market Goods

I’m writing again about another so-called “victimless crime.” It’s just getting a good deal.  What’s the harm?  Well the harm can be endless.  Not only to the companies which produce the real items, but to the people who toil to produce them and to untold thousands who are the targets of the organized crime and [...]