Specialized Professional Investigative Services throughout the State Since 2000
PRIVATE DETECTIVE: When unexpected issues arise, and you need to talk to a Private Detective about a confidential investigation? Our investigation agency is here to provide you with an experienced Private Detective, with 20 years as a formidable fraud investigator. We specialize in Fraud and Insurance Investigations, including Probate and Estate Discovery, Pre-Litigation and post-judgment asset searches, Background Checks, Skip trace services, and Recorded Statements.
What’s the difference between our agency and others? As the founder of this agency, I have high standards for myself and my performance. Honor and integrity aren’t just words; they are my principal standards of performance. As such, I have never been able to idly stand by and watch while someone takes advantage of someone else. Because someone else chooses to act without integrity, it does not mean you don’t have any recourse. Whether you are involved in a divorce and your spouse is hiding joint assets, or you are a beneficiary in a will, and you suspect Inheritance Theft. At Stryker, we’re passionate, motivated, and committed to providing our clients with the quality investigative services they deserve.
We conduct investigation services on behalf of our clients from California to Georgia. Our clients are derived from a variety of industries, such as insurance companies, municipalities, third-party administrators (“TPA”), law firms, attorneys, private clients, and businesses. Our belief and intention are to provide professional investigations with purpose. Our efforts are aimed at delivering top-tier performance and ensuring our clients have access to an experienced private investigator and professional organization that provides asset search, pre-litigation, and post-judgment services, Workers’ Compensation fraud investigations, suspicious auto accidents, AOE/COE, Subrosa surveillance, subrogation investigations, employer level investigations, statements, and interviews, private clients needing confidential surveillance, background checks, skip-trace and locate services by a professional investigation agency. Our principal investigator can provide custom proposals and investigation plans designed specifically for your particular situation.
Our Asset Search support services include financial investigation and assets search for a bank, savings account brokerage, stocks, bonds, and business partnerships. These particular services can be used as part of pretrial discovery to formulate a strategic battle plan, favorable results can be used as leverage during the course of negotiations or to determine whether a lawsuit is economically worth pursuing.
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WORKERS’ COMP SURVEILLANCE
We clearly understand what it takes to provide actionable information from field surveillance to expose exaggerated and patently false claims. Employees, employers, and even health care providers and doctors can commit workers’ compensation fraud. Accidents can happen in the workplace. Your business could be on the line when an employee gets a work-related injury or illness. Workers’ compensation insurance protects you by reimbursing employees when accidents take place. But, employees, employers, and even health care providers can take advantage of the system by committing workers’ compensation fraud. When an investigator is able to capture video evidence of the claimant performing activities outside the scope of their physical restrictions, set by their physician, the subject matter must be reviewed by their doctor. If the activities are, in fact, deemed outside the scope of their prescribed physical restrictions, the video may provide evidence that weakens or even stops payments of the worker’s compensation benefits.
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INSURANCE FRAUD
Every investigation is unique, and there is no one-size-fits-all approach. Each insurance investigation is tailored towards the unique needs of a particular client. We conduct insurance investigations on behalf of insurance carriers, third-party administrators, law firms, municipalities and employers from the private sector. Services include Workers’ Comp Fraud, AOE/COE statements and interviews, subrogation investigation, surveillance, background checks, alive and well checks, DWC record requests, records research, skip-trace, social media searches, investigations, hospital and pharmacy checks, evidence gathering, accident scene canvass, and insurance fraud-related services. We recognize fraud occurs in simple and complex schemes of intentional misrepresentation or concealment. Unlike errors or mistakes, fraud is intentional and may be intentionally hidden. For this reason, we use creative strategies to determine the presence of deception which is intended to achieve financial or personal gain at the expense of a victim.
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ASSET SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS
Pre-litigation asset search investigations are part of the counsel’s legal due diligence and are a preemptive tactic used to determine what assets or income may be seized in the event a judgment is ordered. Subsequent, information can be used to determine if the judicial venture is economically worth the effort. The goal of legal, due diligence investigation is to assess the potential benefits and risks of settling a case, selling, or buying another business or business assets. There are two main areas of focus in a due diligence investigation: First, to determine the current status, and Second, to determine the consequences of a potential agreement. Evidence obtained during this process can be admissible in court and used at trial to prepare a better case. A secured position will give a creditor significant leverage over the debtor that may prompt the debtor into a quick settlement. It may also provide significant protection in the event of bankruptcy or even prompt the debtor not to file bankruptcy because secured debts are not dischargeable.
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FIXED POSITION SURVEILLANCE
For fixed targets such as buildings, construction sites, points of vandalism, personal and business property fixed surveillance will be used to determine patterns of behavior. Vandals or thieves will look for fences, gates, locks, and alarms, but they also will look for times when fewer guards or employees are present or when the guards or employees are about to change their shifts. They will conduct surveillance several times, often at different times of the day. Detecting this activity can be conducted by one person, or by a small group of counter-surveillance (CS) investigators. The CS investigators must place themselves in a position so that they can covertly monitor the target area or location. In doing so the investigation team can identify individuals that frequent an area or location. The more they show their faces, the more vulnerable they are to detection. Once identified the CS team members can start tracking the identified members back to their place of operation. At this point, it’s like pulling on a thread…their whole operation begins to unravel.
PROBATE AND ESTATE PRIVATE INVESTIGATOR
Probate and Estate discovery can be a complex and daunting process. Our specialized discovery process can search nationwide to find bank accounts, brokerage accounts, bonds, property, or unknown business interests, and assets that are forgotten about and were not disclosed in the will. A professional probate private investigator must conduct the discovery investigation. Using a professional to assist in the estate discovery process can be advantageous for the investigation. An experienced investigator will already be familiar with the legal issues presented during this process and have the experience to navigate the obstacles effectively. The private investigator can obtain information about accounts, business partnerships, and assets in other states or countries. Without discovery, there would be no mechanism in place to identify these valuable assets and information.
A Probate Asset Investigator can help counsel surviving family members, the administrator of the estate, or the executor find missing or unknown bank accounts and assist in identifying insurance policies. When preparing an estate inventory, it is necessary for an estate’s executor to conduct a search for all of the decedent’s assets, including hidden assets. The decedent’s important papers will include information about the decedent’s assets, including bank and brokerage statements, stock and bond certificates, life insurance policies, corporate records, car and boat titles, and deeds; and information about the decedent’s debts, including utility bills, credit card bills, mortgages, personal loans, medical bills, and the funeral bill.
CHILD SUPPORT | CHILD CUSTODY INVESTIGATIONS | DRUG ABUSE INVESTIGATIONS
Child SupportCustody and Parenting TimeCustody and Domestic ViolenceDrug Abuse by a Parent (Proof)Criminal ConvictionsHealth and Medical CareCourt-ordered Custody EvaluationAbuse, Neglect & Abandonment
Are you concerned about your child’s safety? If you have concerns that your ex isn’t keeping your children safe, our investigators can ensure that they’re following your custody agreement and not putting your children in risky situations. A child custody investigation objectively observes a child’s well-being and treatment, usually as part of a divorce, separation, or custody case. Evidence that one parent is habitually or continually using illegal drugs, abusing alcohol or abusing controlled substances such as prescription medication does factor into the court’s decision-making process.
IS SUPERVISED VISITATION NECESSARY? Ensuring that a child’s best interests are protected during high-conflict child-custody cases is a challenge for the U.S. court system, but attorneys and psychologists are working together to better promote the well-being of children embroiled in these battles. Often, supervised visitation is a temporary arrangement that can lead to unsupervised visitation if the non-custodial parent meets certain requirements.
A PARENT’S CRIMINAL CONVICTIONS: A parent’s conviction of certain crimes and their impact on custody and visitation. Certain specific child abuse crimes, including but not limited to those that require registration as a sex offender, trigger a whole different standard pursuant to our state’s statutes. In such situations, the court must not award custody or unsupervised visitation to a convicted parent unless the court makes a finding that there is no significant risk to the child. California child custody laws are strict in such cases.
Drug and Alcohol Testing in Child Custody Cases: Implementation of Family Code Section 3041.5
DRONE
Stryker can provide our clients with on-site inspectors and drones for surveillance and claims management by the property and casualty insurance industry. They can benefit significantly from the use of drones, especially in the areas of claims adjudication, risk engineering, and catastrophe claims management.
The FAA has granted AIG, State Farm, and USAA approval to use unmanned aircraft to do inspections. The insurers said drones will help them inspect areas that are difficult for people to access. Drones have the ability to help insurers swiftly respond to claims from hurricanes, tornadoes, and floods by providing aerial images of areas claims adjusters can’t get to. They also see drones as a way to reduce injuries from risky roof inspections.
ASSET SEARCH INVESTIGATION SERVICES AND COLLECTION FEES
Stryker provides the Best-in-Class professional asset search investigation services to law firms, private clients, and businesses. We are a judgment enforcement investigation agency that specializes in representing creditors as aggressively as the law allows in matters of judgment enforcement and recovery. After your judgment is entered, you will be informed by the court clerk that court judgments are not self-enforcing. Sometimes a solvent or honest debtor will want to pay soon after a judgment is entered. Judgment will appear on credit reports and be a matter of public record. This will be a problem for any judgment debtor attempting to borrow money.
LOCAL AND NATIONWIDE ASSET SEARCH INVESTIGATIONS FOR BANK AND BROKERAGE ACCOUNTS
- Our Service Area | Colorado Aspen, Denver, Colorado Springs, Colorado | Nevada Reno, Las Vegas | Florida Miami asset search, Jacksonville, Orlando, Tampa | District of Columbia Washington DC | Pennsylvania Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Allentown | Ohio Columbus, Cincinnati, Cleveland, Ohio | Louisiana Baton Rouge, Shreveport, New Orleans, Lafayette | New York, New York City, Albany, Manhattan New York Private Investigator Asset Search, Surveillance, Background Check, Skip-trace and Locates, Statements, Interviews
- Our Service Area | North Carolina Raleigh, Fayetteville, Ashville, Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greens-Bero | South Carolina Columbia, Charleston-North Charleston, Summerville | Tennessee Nashville | Virginia Richmond, Newport News | Texas Corpus Christi, Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio | Illinois Chicago, Aurora, Rockford, Joliet, Naperville, Springfield, Peoria | Georgia Atlanta, The City of Atlanta, Fulton County, Albany, Athens, Augusta, Buckhead, Columbus, Savanna, Macon, Marietta Sandy Springs
Our firm frequently hires investigation agencies to assist with services… after hiring Stryker we found their results were consistent with our expectations. I will continue to use Stryker Investigation Services for more and more complicated investigations. Arden Wolf, Esq.
