A personal injury claimant says he can't work and has lost $100,000 a year in wages. Is this true? How can you find out?
Interrogatories, depositions and medical examinations might provide some answers. Surveillance is expensive and no guarantee. You can check out social media to see what he's doing and saying. But now there's another way: See if he is using a self-tracking device, such as a Fitbit, and access the data to investigate the claim.
Fitness trackers, smart watches, heart-rate monitors, blood-sugar monitors, GPS trackers and other wearable devices collect and store huge amounts of potentially crucial information. A claimant's personal data from one of these devices may well turn out to be the smoking gun that answers the ultimate question in the claim.
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