Image Overflow indicator for InDesign

Does anyone know if there is any software out there that can detect if an image file that has been pulled into InDesign is being cut off because the image isn’t properly scaled in the image box. Something that works similar to a text overflow box error. I know that this is a long shot and it may not exist but I need to make sure I check everywhere before giving up on this one.
I have included a pdf file that shows what I am talking about. If you look you can see that there is a line of copy at the bottom that is being cut off and the whole right side is missing. Why an operator would miss something like this is way beyond me but it happens quite a bit and if I can error proof this like I can with text that has overflowed it would make my life easier.
I am currently running InDesign CS3 on a Mac with the Tiger OS.

This could have been done in one of two ways. You could import the logo and place it next to the text with the logo pushing the text to the right, but it looks more like the logo and the text are part of an imported image. Maybe that's not the way it is, but if it were live text, I'm not sure you would see the top half of the text that's cut off.
Since some people place an image and use the frame to crop out parts that they don't want to see, the thing you are asking for would have to know that you want everything in the image to show. If you made a 1x1" image in illustrator, it could have an 8.5x11 bouding box, and you probably wouldn't want to be warned that an image like that isn't fully showing after you cropped it in ID.
I don't really have an answer, but am I on the right track?

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