Licensed Florida agency A3400127 · Investigator C3400073 · Veteran-led, 12 years Army military intelligence · Phone answered 24 hours a day, seven days a week · Silver, Best Private Investigator, Bradenton’s Best 2025 and 2026
Insight Investigative Group, LLC is a licensed Florida private investigative agency, agency license A3400127, supporting carriers, third party administrators, self insured employers and defense counsel across Bradenton, Sarasota, Tampa, St. Petersburg and Clearwater. Surveillance is $1,000 per day flat and claim investigations are quoted per file.
What we handle
Workers compensation claim investigation, including activity checks and sustained surveillance. AOE and COE investigations establishing whether an injury arose out of and in the course of employment. Recorded statements from claimants, witnesses and employers. Scene investigation and documentation. Nationwide skip tracing for claimants who have become unreachable. Social media and open source analysis. Prior claim and litigation history.
How we approach a suspect claim
The objective is documentation, not a predetermined outcome. A surveillance day that shows a claimant behaving entirely consistently with their stated restrictions is a useful result, and we report it exactly that way. Carriers who receive only the findings they hoped for are being told a story rather than given evidence.
Video is timestamped and logged as captured, with a written chronology of observed activity. Reports are structured to be read alongside the medical restrictions in the file, because the question is almost never whether someone left the house. It is whether what they did is consistent with what they reported.
Documented to evidentiary standards
Our work is prepared to survive a defense medical examination, a deposition, a mediation and a hearing, and the investigator who conducted it can speak to what he observed. Chain of custody is maintained on all recorded media.
What we will not do
We do not misrepresent ourselves to obtain a statement. We do not record private conversations, which section 934.03 of the Florida Statutes prohibits without the consent of all parties. We do not trespass. We do not place tracking devices on claimant vehicles, which section 934.425 prohibits without consent. Investigations conducted otherwise hand claimant counsel the case.
Also available
Fraud awareness and red flag training for claims staff and SIU teams, and consultation on whether a file justifies the cost of surveillance before the assignment is opened. That second conversation has closed files without an assignment more than once, which is the point of having it.
What does a surveillance day actually produce?
A day is ten hours in the field, billed at $1,000 flat, with mileage and travel included. What comes back is video and stills as captured, a written chronological log of observed activity written in real time rather than reconstructed afterwards, and a report structured to be read against the restrictions in the medical file.
The log matters more than the footage. A clip showing a claimant carrying a bag proves very little on its own. The same clip, timestamped and sitting inside a chronology that shows him doing it four times across six hours, is a different document entirely. That is the difference between something a defense expert can work with and something claimant counsel can dismiss.
The investigator who conducted the surveillance is available for deposition and hearing testimony and can speak to what he personally observed. Chain of custody is maintained on all recorded media.
When is surveillance worth the reserve?
Not every suspect file justifies the cost, and opening an assignment on the wrong one burns budget you will want later. The files that tend to return something are the ones where a specific, checkable claim is on the record.
- A stated restriction that is physical and observable, such as an inability to lift, bend, stand or drive.
- A reported activity level that conflicts with something already in the file, whether that is a social account, a prior statement or an employer report.
- A claimant with a known routine. Surveillance documents a pattern, and a pattern needs somewhere reliable to observe it.
- Enough time before mediation or hearing that the result can actually be used.
The files that usually disappoint are the ones built on a general feeling that something is off, with no stated restriction to test and no reliable location to work from. We will say so before the assignment opens. That conversation has closed files without an assignment more than once, which is the point of having it.
Which counties and courts do you cover?
The standard coverage area is the Suncoast and Tampa Bay: Manatee, Sarasota, Hillsborough, Pinellas, Pasco, Charlotte and Polk counties, which is where the bulk of the work sits. Manatee, Sarasota and DeSoto matters run through the Twelfth Judicial Circuit; Hillsborough through the Thirteenth; Pinellas and Pasco through the Sixth. Florida workers compensation claims themselves are heard through the Office of the Judges of Compensation Claims rather than the circuit courts, which is why a claim file and a civil file often need different research entirely.
Assignments outside that area are taken and quoted individually before scheduling. If you are placing work across multiple counties on the same claimant, say so at the outset, because it changes how the days are sequenced.
Claims investigation questions, answered
How much does a workers compensation surveillance day cost?
Surveillance is $1,000 per day, flat, including unlimited mileage and travel, timestamped video and stills, and a written chronological activity log. Claim investigations that do not involve surveillance are quoted per file.
What is an AOE COE investigation?
AOE COE stands for arising out of employment and course of employment. It establishes whether a claimed injury actually happened at work and in the course of the claimant’s duties, through recorded statements from the claimant, witnesses and the employer, scene documentation, and review of prior claim history.
Will the report say what we want it to say?
No, and you should not want it to. The report documents what was observed, including observations that support the claimant. A file that only ever produces adverse findings is not an investigation, and claimant counsel will make that point before you do.
Can you take a recorded statement from a claimant?
Yes. Recorded statements from claimants, witnesses and employers are a standard part of claim investigation. We identify ourselves accurately and we do not misrepresent who we are to obtain one, because a statement obtained by pretext is worth less than no statement at all.
Do you handle claims outside the Tampa Bay area?
Yes. The agency is based in Bradenton and works Manatee, Sarasota and Hillsborough counties routinely, and takes assignments statewide in Florida where a file requires it. Nationwide skip tracing is available for claimants who have become unreachable.
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