Discusses the court ruling on the case 'Trustees of the AFRTA Health Fund v. Biondi,' stating that a welfare benefit fund could bring a state common law fraud claim against an employee. Facts of the case; Laws relevant to the case; Basis of the court's decision....
Moreover, any common-law claim must satisfy the essential elements of the particular cause of action involved. Nevertheless, the decision manifestly opens a wide variety of claims under New York State law — invoking standards less rigorous than intentional fraud — that for some years previous ...
The parties must actually live together in order to support a claim of common-law marriage. Whether maintenance of a separate home by one of the parties will nullify a common-law marriage is a Question of Fact and depends on the circumstances of the particular case. Public representations of ...
3. Property Damage Exaggeration Property damage fraud often arises after natural disasters or major accidents. While the damage may be legitimate, fraudsters will sometimes overstate the extent of the damage or claim additional items were damaged that weren’t part of the original event. This is es...
After his efforts of trying to track down the company and trying to get his money back failed. He realized that, the company didn’t exist, and that he effectively had been a victim of a scam, Fernando lost all his money. Even though he filed a claim to Alibaba the company that house...
England since the conquest hath known some few good monarchs, but groaned beneath a much larger number of bad ones; yet no man in his senses can say that their claim under William the Conqueror is a very honorable one. A French bastard landing with an armed banditti and establishing himself...
Banks allow customers to dispute fraudulent charges and give them a certain number of days to do so, usually 120. After a fraudulent claim is made, a bank has a set number of days to investigate the claim. If they find that the charge was indeed fraudulent, then they will reimburse the...
The UNIDROIT principles do not claim binding force; they are not intended as uniform law or for an international convention and will be applied in practice by reason of their persuasive value only. In many other fields of law, general principles, guidelines, or best practices are set forth by...
» MORE: How to file a life insurance claim Forging changes to someone else’s policy Forgery falls under the umbrella of identity theft or account takeover fraud, says Russell Anderson, certified fraud examiner and head of financial crimes services for LIMRA, a life insurance trade group. “...
Law enforcement and financial institutions find it extremely hard to identify this kind of fraud as it is not specific to just one person and cybercriminals use identities that are a mixture of identities of different people. Its complicated nature makes it hard to prevent this kind of fraud. ...