Slovak insurance companies using private detectives

Slovak insurance companies rely increasingly on the services of private detectives to uncover fraudulent claims, the saily Pravda reported on Monday. Such practices often come close to grey areas in the law, as it is illegal to snoop into a person's state of health, for example. Private detectives are obliged to obtain special licences, and certain rules have been laid down concerning what they are allowed to do and the kind of information that they can obtain. They aren't permitted to probe into a person's political or religious convictions, state of health or sexual preferences.