Private Eye: Mardi Gras parades are for catching beads, and insurance fraud suspects

NEW ORLEANS - About 25 years ago, Mark Avery first diagnosed "Mardi Gras syndrome." This condition, Avery writes, "shows an excessive urge to heavy drinking, a desire for a variety of outdoor events such as parades to attend, and, in some plaintiffs, the possibility of physical acts with their doctor , and especially their lawyers, never thought humanly possible (ie, those people on their shoulders, running, jumping, twisting and lunging for beads, stands for a long time, etc.). "

Avery's diagnosis is no medical or psychological; Avery is neither a doctor nor a psychologist. He did not write his findings to a journal article or popular magazine.

The quote is up of a solicitation letter that Avery, who at the University of South Carolina is a graduate in criminal justice and another in the humanities and social sciences, annually sends up to 600 or 700 companies, insurance companies and attorneys in and around New Orleans.

The letter includes helpful Avery a Mardi Gras parade schedule, and this field:

"Insurance fraud is a serious problem. Now is the perfect time of year to our highly professional and well trained researchers use to monitor applicants who could be involved in fraudulent claims against your firm or your clients to discover. If you have a case in which there are serious reservations about the severity of injuries to the plaintiff, then call us to see if we can help. "

Avery, 52, is a private detective who, operating from an office in Terrytown with a staff ranging from 12 to 16, has a neat living secretly following people and shooting video of them doing things that their accident, slip and - fall, accident or disability claims indicate that they ought not to be able to do.

And Avery, Mardi Gras is really something to celebrate.

"People just lie and lie and lie about their situation - then they're at Mardi Gras and they just forget everything around them," he said. "The only thing they can focus on is where the parade and party."

The ladder carry, bead coupling

For Avery, the most common catch Mardi Gras is the ladder carry.

The claimant - with their alleged neck, shoulder, rotator cuff or back injury - will go to the parade route with a ladder over his shoulder and children in tow. "They put their children in a box at the top of the ladder that seats two children she managed to climb the ladder itself for a better picture, so to stand when the floats drive by,. They will stand and more successful. "

After "the ladder," Avery said the biggest tells are "putting children on their shoulders and carrying them around, and coolers. We get a lot of the implementation of coolers, normally filled with drinks."

And then there are the bead-related effort - throwing, catching and bending over to pick them. Even a strong link can demonstrate that the carpal tunnel syndrome is less crippling than advanced.

Each year, Avery is preparing for Mardi Gras with a list of potential targets, who live near parade routes. He and his team at their homes on the outside to see any visible evidence of the majority in the Mardi Gras spirit to show. Then, the ripest targets chosen, on the morning of every parade day, she discreetly parking one of their fleet of surveillance vehicles in the street and wait patiently for the person playing the insurance company for suckers to the irresistible bait to take.

And indeed, Avery assumes most of the people he paid to monitoring its fraud.

If a customer is willing to pay him to try a plaintiff in the act to catch, "the loss adjuster and the lawyer have a pretty good sense of the plaintiffs are. They are more or less right 95 percent of the time."

Mixing in the crowd

Avery and his team are skilled in videography secret, but that's hardly a problem at Mardi Gras.

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