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The Safe Hiring Manual goes beyond the typical reference-checking handbook and provides a comprehensive blueprint for developing a Safe Hiring Program. More than 30 chapters detail the steps to not only verify education and past work history, but also investigate criminal records, identify terrorists, perform international background checks, and update your current program to comply with recent changes involving the EEOC, FCRA, Patriot Act and other legal concerns. The book provides the tools to audit the effectiveness of your current hiring program and implement the necessary changes to keep your business safe - and keep you out of court.

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At 1,184 pages, Successful Personal Injury Investigation is the most comprehensive book ever written for the investigative industry, not just the personal injury field. It contains hundreds of pages covering case and file management, witness interviews and declarations, photography, diagrams, videotaping, process service, report writing, client billing, and much more. In addition, it details step-by-step how to investigate over 100 different types of accidents and injuries. It has 48 pages of removable forms and investigative checklists which insure that the investigator does not have to “re-invent the wheel” every time a form or checklist is needed.

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Tough new regulations for security guard firms and private investigators go into effect starting today.
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Arranged marriages continue to be a popular tradition in India, with over 90 percent of men and women between the ages of 17 and 25 in New Delhi and Mumbai approving of them, according to a survey by the Hindustan Times earlier this year.The way these marriages get arranged, however, in the fast-changing urban centers–where a rapidly growing economy fuels women’s social mobility–are shifting with the times.
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San Rafael private investigator Denise Garety has won the annual A. Leonard Bjorklund Jr. award from Alternate Defenders Inc.
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A Sherman Oaks, Calif., man has been arrested for insurance fraud, grand theft, identity theft, and federal charges, the California Department of Insurance reported. Moshe “Sanny” Assoulin, 35, was arrested in Israel on Aug. 19, 2007 by Israeli National Police. Assoulin is an Israeli national who grew up in California’s San Fernando Valley.

A warrant for Assoulin’s arrest was issued in October 2005, following the results of an investigation by the CDI. The investigation revealed multiple fraudulent automobile insurance claims were allegedly submitted to car rental and insurance companies by Assoulin and co-conspirators. Nine defendants have pleaded guilty to various insurance fraud related charges in connection with this case. In May 2005, Assoulin was awaiting sentencing for federal charges when he became aware of CDI’s insurance fraud investigation. At that point, Assoulin fled to Israel.

Your child’s soccer coach, your landscaper, the handyman? Do you know who these people are?

“There are essentially unhealthy people out there, predators that come into our lives looking like and acting like they’re just good natured people,” said security expert, Robert Siciliano. So to be sure you know who you’re dealing with, take your own precautions.

“People are realizing their personal security and they’re becoming much more responsible by getting background checks done,” said Siciliano.

For years, major companies have used background checks to look into prospective employees. But these days, business from the general public is booming at services like my-background-check-dot-com where you need only a few bits of information to research somebody without their knowledge.

A new Missouri law makes it faster and easier than ever to get a gun. Backers say it just cuts through red tape. Gun control advocates say it’s not a huge change, but believe lawmakers should have spent taxpayer dollars making more important revisions.

“Let’s say there’s a person who has an issue where they’re in fear for their life and they need to get a gun fairly quickly,” says Michael Meyer, of the St. Louis Association of Firearms Training Instructors. “If they had to wait ten days, that may be too late.”

Now when you walk in a gun store, you can walk out with a gun, in minutes not days.

“It makes it fair as far as protection,” Meyer says. “You won’t be a victim.”

Meyer says the law change does not mean Missouri is going soft on gun control, but simply cutting through red tape, and a duplication of background checks.

A McDowell County man who earlier pleaded guilty to a felony count of insurance fraud was in a regional jail last week after being sentenced, West Virginia Insurance Commissioner Jane Cline said.

Bradley Vernatter pleaded guilty in February to one felony count of conspiracy to commit insurance fraud, Cline’s office said. Vernatter admitted to his role in committing staged auto accidents and was sentenced Wednesday to one year in a regional jail and ordered to pay State Farm Insurance Co. $2,000 in restitution, Cline’s office said.

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