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Confirm coverage evidence is real — and current.

A certificate of insurance is one of the easiest documents to edit and one of the most consequential to get wrong. Docurensic checks COIs and coverage evidence for edits, with date-aware logic that expects a future expiration but catches the changes that matter.

§01 / WHAT IT CATCHES
Built for this paperwork

The fraud that hides in insurance documents.

§02 / IN PRACTICE
Illustrative example

What a backdated policy looks like.

A constructed example — not a real customer file — showing the kind of finding Docurensic surfaces on a certificate of insurance.

Exhibit · illustrative

Certificate of Insurance · POL-77-3120

InsuredCedar Ridge Contracting
CarrierAtlas Mutual
Effective / issue dateJan 02
PDF createdApr 18
Coverage limit$2,000,000
Review recommendedForensic axis · document altered
Created after its own effective date

The PDF's creation timestamp falls months after the policy's stated issue and effective dates — the file was produced long after the coverage it certifies supposedly began.

Metadata · date order · strong
Producer trace mismatch

The generator byte-trace names a consumer PDF editor, not an insurer document system.

Provenance · indicative
§03 / WHY IT WORKS

Why generic checks miss it.

Because a COI is expected to have a future expiration date, naive checks either miss real fraud or flag every valid certificate. Docurensic's insurance profile is date-aware: it knows what a genuine certificate should look like and catches a quietly raised limit or a swapped name without drowning you in false positives.

The forensic layer finds the edits; validation confirms the document is internally consistent; external lookups help corroborate that the issuing carrier is a real, active business.

Five layers, one verdict. Every document runs through security, forensics, reasoning, validation, and external lookups — see how the engine works.

Document-specific guides: detecting an altered invoice · spotting a fake bank statement.

§04 / FAQ
Questions

Frequently asked.

How does date-aware COI checking work?

Docurensic understands that a certificate legitimately expires in the future, so it doesn't treat that as suspicious. Instead it looks for edits to limits, names, and dates, and for metadata that contradicts the document's stated timeline.

Can it detect a forged certificate of insurance?

Yes — it inspects the file for tampering, validates the certificate's fields, and flags certificates that were altered or generated rather than issued.

Does it work on scanned certificates?

Scanned or image-only certificates are recognized as such and read with OCR so the content and logic checks still run, with the image-only status itself noted.

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