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...sent home to an empty house, with no one to take care of them, a physician may very well feel justified keeping the patient for one more night." And in fact, says Gorman, even doctors who admit to thumbing their noses at HMO guidelines may not be committing fraud in the strictest sense of the word. "There may be situations in which if a doctor or patient appealed an HMO's decision, the patient would be able to stay longer." The problem the doctors face, of course, is one of immediacy: The patients who most need special consideration are often...
...though, U.S. Attorney General Janet Reno is just glad the cybersheriff is on the case. While crimes such as e-mail fraud, trade-secret hacking and child pornography are generally considered the province of federal authorities, they are so prevalent today that the Justice Department and FBI are outmanned. A survey of Fortune 500 companies by the Justice Department and the Computer Security Institute estimated that financial losses from computer crime exceeded $360 million from 1997 to 1999. With the volume of e-commerce predicted to rise, from more than $100 billion last year to $1 trillion in 2003, computer...
...Some 150 buyers are claiming they got ripped off by a seller on eBay. Although crooks represent just a tiny fraction of transactions, Internet fraud is rising: complaints increased 38% last year. How do you avoid it? Either pay by credit card or use an escrow service that won't release your money to the seller until you've got your goods. It costs a couple of bucks for each transaction, but it's worth it for costlier items...
Your article reported on allegations of fraud made against Lloyd's by a small group of disaffected Names. This piece appears to have been stimulated by the upcoming case to be heard by the Commercial Court in London under the title Society of Lloyd's v. Jaffray [Sir William Jaffray is a former Name]. It made no new disclosures and was one-sided, unbalanced and contained many inaccuracies. These old allegations relate back to events of the 1970s and '80s, and no evidence of fraud has ever been produced. Your report purported to comment on the current state...
Your special report on Lloyd's alleged that "possible fraud at Equitas is one of the issues to be aired in the Jaffray suit and is likely to figure in the U.S. criminal investigation." This statement is false. Contrary to your report, no allegations of fraud or of any other nature have been made against Equitas in the Jaffray case. In addition, Equitas is not, and never has been, the subject of a U.S. criminal investigation. Equitas did not begin operations until 1996, years after the allegedly fraudulent acts referred to in your report. The role of Equitas...