The article discusses the conceptual issues of the theoretical prerequisites for the formation of a private forensic method for investigating intra-corporate theft in the insurance sector. The authors in the relevant aspect consider the content of the initial principles of the formation of private forensic techniques, characterize the related problems of the methodology of criminology. On the basis of the principles of immediacy, contiguity and interdisciplinarity adopted by the authors, the scientific reserve on the issues of criminalistic support for the investigation of fraud, other embezzlement and other crimes in the field of insurance is characterized. The “niches” for the prospective study of the problems of intra-corporate theft in the insurance sector are determined. The subject and place of the corresponding private forensic methodology in the system of forensic methodological knowledge are determined.