Death Claims Investigations

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While it is primarily insurance companies who utilize the death investigation services of KHutch Investigations, we are also commonly consulted by private individuals regarding suspicious death claims.

• KHutch Investigations can conduct comprehensive death claims investigations to determine if the manner of death of the deceased was caused by suicide, accident, or homicide.
• Each claim is thoroughly reviewed by interacting or examining any police, coroner, or pathologist reports that are available
• The origin of the scene intricately photographed and analyzed.
• Each eyewitness and character witness will be located and subsequently interviewed in detail.
• Taped or written statements are obtained.
• The investigator will then canvas databases, search through public records, and use field sources to locate any circumstantial or physical evidence which may be essential to the case.
• The investigator will provide any medical or legal research as supportive evidence to bolster findings.
• A detailed investigative report will be provided, and if necessary, the investigator will testify at hearings or litigation proceedings.

Insurance Death Claim Investigation

While death verification is generally the objective of most contestable or suspicious death claims investigations, insurance adjustors sometimes find that a case may have evolved into a criminal matter and further research is necessary. Some of the services frequently requested in either suspicious death claims, or contestable death claims investigations include the following:

• Obtain death certificate, medical records, police/fire/ambulance reports
• Document burial/gravesite information
• Obtain obituary and/or other newspaper information
• Obtain coroner or medical examiner records and/or formal statements
• Scene photographs
• Interview witnesses
• Civil or criminal records research regarding insured and/or beneficiary

Private Death Investigation

It is not uncommon for families to question whether or not a loved one's death was truly an accident or suicide, or even occurred at all. They also may wish to investigate in terms of possibly pursuing a wrongful death lawsuit. Private death matters require not only sensitivity to our clients' feelings, but also a full understanding of a family's objective. KHutch Investigations is prepared to handle each case with the knowledge and personal consideration that is expected in such situations