However, the woman will have to get the promise in writing. Furthermore, the woman's remedy would not be to force the man to marry her, but to receive compensation for the monetary damages that she suffered as a result of the move. While the Englis Continue Reading...
Statute of Limitations for Fraud This refers to the maximum time legal action may be brought against someone for the commission of a fraud. This Statute depends on the jurisdiction. Most federal crimes in general have up to 5 years to prosecute. Continue Reading...
Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), previously the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA), that by the time 2011, health care expenditure will arrive at $2.8 trillion, as well as it will bill for 17% of the Gross Domestic Product. As a result Continue Reading...
Fraud and Abuse United States v. Greber -- 3rd Circuit, 1985 Facts: Dr. Greber's company, Cardio-Med, supplied Holter monitors, a device worn by patients that records heartbeats for later interpretation. Investigations showed that Cardio-Med bille Continue Reading...
False Claims Act is a piece of legislation from the U.S. Congress that allows any individual with knowledge of a fraud being perfected against any agency of the U.S. Government to file a claim on behalf of the Government against the individual or bus Continue Reading...
Mortgage Fraud If a rash of armed bank robberies swept across America next year, and if in these robberies criminals absconded with $30 billion dollars, one may be certain that a public panic would ensue. The banking system would likely be changed f Continue Reading...
parties have a contract? The parties had a contract from the moment they agreed to the deal verbally. This is easy to prove, as X received an email from them stating their acceptance of the terms and conditions. In it, they agreed with the fax he s Continue Reading...
Though the female did sustain damages when the bus dropped into the ditch, her damages were not inflicted via negligent behavior on the part of the driver. Given the facts presented in this case, the injured female will not prevail in a lawsuit for Continue Reading...
Fraudulent activities such as these resulted in violations under the act, including a fine of not more than $25,000.00 or imprisonment for not more than five years, or both. Analysis of Current Fraud legal analysis of the current fraud committed in Continue Reading...
" Further, it is held that "a material misrepresentation in the certifications (bid) generally provides a basis for rejection of the proposal or reevaluation of the award decision." Thus, it can be said that if a challenge shows a material misreprese Continue Reading...
The principal is the property that is contained in the trust that produces income like dividends, rents, and interest. Payments for bills to the trust may be paid out of either income or principal but payments to beneficiaries may be made out from i Continue Reading...
Whistleblowing Businesses today are faced with a number of challenges, and one of the biggest is unethical or illegal practices by their employees. It is important to examine why whistleblowing should be encouraged to prevent irreparable damage to t Continue Reading...
Statue of Frauds Willie has a very good case in regard to the burns he received when his automobile caught fire. The issues at hand are: the car broke within the same day of delivery so there was a breach of contract between Willie and the dealer; s Continue Reading...
Smythe ordered a freezer at that price in that time period, but Lasco replied that it had changed the price to $450. Smythe claimed that Lasco could not change the price. Smythe was correct. Lasco's letter was an offer to Smythe, which specifically Continue Reading...
Furthermore, we cannot forge a safe harbor under 42 C.F.R. §1001.952(p), because Sundown Community Hospital is not a physician's group (Altshuler, Creekpaum, & Fang, 2008). Finally, the proposed arrangement does not fall within the safe har Continue Reading...
Healthcare Integrity is a major issue for healthcare organizations because there are many avenues for fraud, and for people to demonstrate a lack of ethics. The problem is that the temptation is sometimes too great and despite the fact that there ar Continue Reading...
The safe harbors do not cover every area of permissible behavior, and an arrangement may not qualify as a safe harbor, but still not subject someone to the risk of prosecution. In fact, the courts have interpreted the Federal Anti-Kickback Law rela Continue Reading...
Medicaid and Medicare Fraud Describe health news story combating health care fraud Medicare Medicaid• Examine evaluate corporate structure governance, culture, focus social responsibility • Recommends Medicare and Medicaid fraud: An ove Continue Reading...
Corporate governance has attracted attention of a number of people due to its emerging importance for a proper economic development of corporations and the society in general. According to Trevino, Weaver and Toffler (1999) what has been seen as a pr Continue Reading...
Corporate Governance: A review of Literature What is Corporate Governance? Principles of Corporate Governance Theoretical foundations of corporate governance Agency theory Stewardship theory Stakeholder theory Post-Enron theories Corporate Go Continue Reading...
Canadian forces in Afghanistan, and whatever location those forces are directed to by the Canadian Government to protect Canada at home and its interests around the world, should be supported with intelligence sources that are directly focused on Ca Continue Reading...
Computer Fraud and Abuse Act A failed and flawed law Technology has changed faster than the laws that exist to protect the public. Protecting information, particularly sensitive government information, was thought to be challenging and to pose addi Continue Reading...
The question at hand however, involves whether the mailing is germane to the actual fraud scheme which was committed. On this point two issues arise, first was the mailing an essential part of the scheme, and second did the mailing further the execu Continue Reading...
wikipedia.org/wiki/Identity_theft. Hoar, Sean B. Identity Theft: The Crime of the New Millennium (2001). U.S. Department of Justice. Retrieved March 20, 2007 at http://www.cybercrime.gov/usamarch2001_3.htm. Has some clown taken over your good name? Continue Reading...
e., the company) that has technical control over telecommunications networks and thus technical ability to access communications, versus a party that is duly authorized to actually access those communications via a warrant (Mares, 2002). Although, as Continue Reading...
Amanda Todd Story Cyber bullying is a relatively new concern that our society has to deal with. The Amanda Todd story fully illustrates the potential consequences of what cyber-bullying can have on young adults. Although the Amanda Todd story is ext Continue Reading...
Legal Terms Sole proprietorship- In a sole proprietorship, one person owns all of the business assets and is the sole decision maker. The sole proprietor has unlimited personal liability for business debts, and all profits and losses pass through t Continue Reading...
This being the case, the liability insurance company will pass the suit to their attorney, who will then be responsible for filling a written answer. The next phase in the litigation process will be a series of discovery, where each side will be gi Continue Reading...
Policy Recommendation in Combating Terrorism Policy Project Part 1: Project outline In the aftermath of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the U.S. government and the international community reviewed typologies for the financing of transnational t Continue Reading...
Big Time Toymaker and Chou over an agreement to distribute a new strategy game. Some of the areas covered are whether or not a contract existed between the two parties, objective intent, and how e-mail comes in to play with enforceability. Also we s Continue Reading...
Law of Sales The Uniform Commercial Code is one of the most important uniform acts that were promulgated in order to unify the sales laws and other commercial transactions within all the states of the U.S. The importance of this code relies on the f Continue Reading...
This essay provides a brief overview of several of the key factors in conflict of laws, including the areas where choice of law is likely to be at issue. Domicile Domicile is one of the key factors in choice of law. Domicile is not the same as loc Continue Reading...
legality of the "individual mandate" to purchase health insurance There have always been heated debates about the amount of interference government should have in our lives. Representative Michele Bachmann of Minnesota perhaps summed it up best whe Continue Reading...
Contracts Law Case Study- Contracts Law There were two offers. There is an offer is a meeting of the minds can be reached by the recipient of the offer accepting the terms of the offer. The first offer was by Galaxy Computer store and consisted of Continue Reading...
Sales Packaging manufactured cellophane wrapping material that was used by Kern's bakery in packaging its product. Kern's decided to change its system for packaging cookies from a tied bread bag to a tray covered with printed cellophane wrapping. R Continue Reading...
legally enforceable contract has several critical components, the first of which is an offer. An excellent example of this is the selling of a used vehicle. The buyer makes an offer of a particular amount of money for the car and/or the seller offer Continue Reading...
