People who hired a personal investigator.

What did you uncover?

My mom was an attorney who worked in the workers' compensation insurance.

Her colleagues were representing a woman who had been gravely injured on the job and deemed totally unable to work.

The opposing attorney hired a PI to investigate this woman.

Let's call her Jane.

They get to court and present the video footage as their

platinum evidence, proving that this woman was totally able to work. Here is Jane mowing her lawn,

here she is unloading her groceries from her car, here she is walking the dog, here she is going

for a run, etc, etc. Jane's attorneys sat there totally quiet. When it was their turn to cross-examine the

PI, they declined any questions. Their turn was up next. Who was the first witness for the opposing

side? We would like to call Jane's identical twin sister to the stand. Jane's identical twin

had moved in with her bedridden sister after the work accident. Full benefits

awarded to Jane. Apparently the look on the faces of the opposing attorneys was the stuff

lawyer's dreams are made of. My grandfather once hired a PI. See, he has a large vineyard, as well as a few

engineering projects he's working on. Well, two guys pressed charges on him because they claimed

they'd hurt their backs working for him, and he needed to pay for all the medical bills, disability,

etc. He thought it was a little fishy and hired a PI. The PI uncovered that they had not

actually been hurt and documented the two people working at a lumberyard, which has a lot more

physical labour than a vineyard.

It cost my grandfather a bit to hire him, but way less than what he would have had to pay

those two scammers.

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