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Changemakers: Master Of Studies In Law: 'Something New And Different...': Monique Kuester, Roger Williams University School Of Law

Life of the Law School (1993- )

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Predictors Of Fraudulent Monday Effect Workers Compensation Claims Filing, Sharla St. Rose

FIU Electronic Theses and Dissertations

Monday Effect Claims refer to workers compensation claims filed on Mondays for easy to conceal injuries such as strains, sprains, and back injuries. Researchers and industry experts have long believed that there is an element of fraud in these claims, resulting from individuals who were injured during the weekend, while not at work, looking to take advantage of the medical benefits available through workers compensation insurance. Fraudulent Monday Effect Claims (FMEC), as presented in this study, specifically refer to workers compensation claims filed for injuries that occurred while an individual was not at work, presumably during the weekend.

A study …

Erisa: A Co-Fiduciary Has No Right To Contribution And Indemnity, George Lee Flint Jr, Philip W. Moore Jr

Faculty Articles

Because retirement plans involve large amounts of money, large numbers of people, and fiduciaries with conflicts of interests, Congress designed ERISA to differ from traditional trust law to meet these specific needs and important policy concerns. Before ERISA, fiduciaries and employers often manipulated lack of oversight and conflict of interests to the detriment of the beneficiaries. ERISA raised the standards owed by fiduciaries and established a policing system that required professional fiduciaries to monitor non-professional fiduciaries, thereby forcing non-professional fiduciaries to leave the field or seek expert advice. These provisions created co-fiduciary liability by imputing the liability of the co-fiduciary …

Re Rk Macdonald Nursing Home Corp And Caw, Local 2107, Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

The four Grievors were in receipt of Long Term Disability (LTD) benefits and also in receipt of Supplementary Health Expense Benefits under their Maritime Life Policy. The Grievors were terminated for innocent absenteeism. The LTD payments continued, but the supplementary benefits stopped because they were no longer employees.

Re Coca-Cola Bottling Ltd And Retail, Wholesale And Department Store Union, Local 1065 (Colpitts), Innis Christie

Innis Christie Collection

Employee grievance alleging breach of the Collective Agreement between the parties dated July 3, 1997, which the parties agreed is the Collective Agreement that governs this matter, and in particular of Article 9:03(d), in that the Employer denied the Grievor Long-Term Disability benefits. The Grievance requested "full redress".