The term “skip tracing” refers to finding missing persons. The term comes from the debt collection industry and refers to those who “skip out” on their debts by moving and not leaving a forwarding address. Today the term skip tracing has been adapted to mean finding a missing person, regardless of if they have skipped out on a debt. The insurance industry requires skip tracing for a variety of reasons, most often to locate the claimant.
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When conducting insurance fraud investigations, we conduct skip tracing on claimants, their family members, witnesses, and others who we need to find to investigate a claim. It is not uncommon to be assigned Subrosa Surveillance surveillance on a claimant who no longer resides at the last known address. We then conduct missing person skip tracing to find the party.
In insurance fraud investigations we usually have a good deal of vita data on the subject we are trying to find. This makes the job easier. We encourage our clients obtain as much identifying information as possible on employees and claimants. This includes current addressees, Social Security numbers, dates of birth and names of family members and other relatives.
The chart below describes the various services we offer for “skip tracing.” For a free consultation or to get started right away on your project, call us for service throughout California and the US at (800) 487-0947 or e-mail us. You can also order your investigation by going to our online order page or download our fax form. Learn more about Tristar’s Fraud Investigation Program.
| Search Level | Description | Cost |
| Level One (Attorney skip-trace) |
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Fixed Fee – $275* |
| Level Two |
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Fixed Fee – $485* |
| Level Three |
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Average Cost $3,000 and up |
*Some persons with common names, evasive behavior or extremely active profiles may require an additional research fee of up to $125.
How do we locate people?
We have access to thousands of databases nationwide with millions of names and addresses. These include driver records, consumer profiles, social security data, post office forwarding data, mailing lists, magazine subscriptions, voter records, utility records, reverse telephone directories, real property records, and a host of other public and proprietary databases. (Some states restrict access to certain databases.)
