Insurance Fraud Investigation Training Course

Course Overview

Learning Objectives

• By the end of this course, participants will be able to:
• Analyze the nature, drivers, and major types of insurance fraud.
• Identify fraud risks across the insurance policy and claims lifecycle.
• Recognize behavioral, transactional, documentary, and operational fraud indicators.
• Apply structured methods for assessing fraud allegations and suspicious cases.
• Develop effective insurance fraud investigation plans.
• Apply evidence-gathering, documentation, preservation, and assessment techniques.
• Conduct professional interviews with policyholders, claimants, witnesses, employees, and intermediaries.
• Analyze claims, policy, financial, and transactional information to identify inconsistencies.
• Use data analysis and investigative techniques to identify suspicious patterns and relationships.
• Evaluate the credibility, relevance, reliability, and sufficiency of evidence.
• Prepare clear and defensible fraud investigation reports.
• Strengthen escalation, referral, recovery, and case closure processes.
• Identify weaknesses in controls that enable recurring or organized fraud.
• Develop preventive measures and fraud risk mitigation strategies.
• Establish a structured insurance fraud investigation framework aligned with governance and compliance requirements.

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Learning Outcomes

• Upon completion of the course, participants will be able to:
• Explain the major forms and characteristics of insurance fraud.
• Identify fraud indicators across underwriting, policy administration, claims, distribution, and payments.
• Distinguish between potential fraud indicators and legitimate unusual activity.
• Conduct structured preliminary assessments of suspicious cases.
• Develop investigation plans based on case complexity and risk.
• Collect, preserve, organize, and assess relevant evidence.
• Conduct effective and professional investigative interviews.
• Analyze policy, claims, financial, medical, documentary, and transactional information where applicable.
• Identify inconsistencies, anomalies, relationships, and suspicious patterns.
• Evaluate evidence and establish investigation findings.
• Document investigative decisions and maintain appropriate case records.
• Prepare professional investigation reports for management and relevant authorities.
• Recommend escalation, referral, recovery, or closure actions based on evidence.
• Identify control weaknesses contributing to fraud exposure.
• Develop fraud prevention and mitigation measures based on investigation findings.
• Establish a practical end-to-end insurance fraud investigation process.

Course Outline