News & Industry Articles

Top 10 Ways to Spoliate Evidence

Top 10 Ways to Spoliate Evidence

Looking for ways to get your case thrown out of court? Want to pay a claim simply because your evidence can’t be used? Here’s a top 10 list to make sure your evidence is useless:

#10  Don’t keep records of the evidence you have
        in your possession

#9    Take evidence from a scene without
        photographing or documenting its
        original location and condition

#8    Perform tests on evidence with no
        photographs or other documentation

#7    Keep evidence in a non-secure location,
        one that does not have locks and is easily
        accessible by many people

#6    Let the insured sort through and move
        everything at the scene before it is
        photographed or documented

#5    Take evidence from a scene without
        starting a chain of custody form

#4    Have repairs made without
        photographing or documenting
        the original condition

#3    Move evidence between parties with
        no chain of custody form to document
        the movement

#2    Lose or throw away evidence that you
        don’t think is important

#1    Perform destructive testing without
        informing all of the interested parties

Finding the Answers You Need
800.222.1868