Other Investigative Experience
Other Investigative Experience recognizes investigative work performed outside an insurer's SIU - law enforcement, military, regulatory, and forensic roles - translated into insurance-fraud terms. The exam tests whether you can map transferable investigative skills and evidence to the credential's requirements without double-counting.
Qualifying experience
- Sworn law enforcement, especially fraud, financial crimes, arson, or auto-theft units.
- Military criminal investigative organizations and CID-type roles.
- State departments of insurance fraud bureaus and workers' compensation fraud divisions.
- Forensic accounting, internal audit, corporate security, and licensed private investigation.
How it is weighed
Depth beats breadth. A detective who worked financial crimes, prepared warrants, interviewed suspects, and testified in court demonstrates transferable method. Patrol years count but at lower weight. Testimony, case closures, and prosecutions are strong signals.
Worked example
A former detective reports eight years' service, three of them in a financial crimes unit, 20 search warrants, and 10 felony fraud prosecutions. Reasoning: the three fraud-unit years align most closely with insurance fraud; the other five count as general investigative experience at a lower weight. The applicant attaches a department letter and a redacted case summary rather than relying on the résumé line.
Traps that cost marks
- Counting the same calendar years under both SIU and other experience.
- Treating every law-enforcement year as equivalent to an SIU year.
- Describing an administrative or clerical role as investigative.
- No documentation separating investigative duties from general duties.