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A letter report issued by the General Accounting Office with an abstract that begins "The Medicaid program spent more than $200 billion in fiscal year 2000 to meet the health care needs of nearly 34 million poor, elderly, blind, and disabled persons. States are responsible for making proper payments to Medicaid providers, recovering misspent funds, and accurately reporting costs for federal reimbursement. At the federal level, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) oversee state financial activities and ensure the propriety of expenditures reported for federal reimbursement. GAO found that weak financial oversight by CMS leaves the program vulnerable to improper payments. The Comptroller General's Standards for Internal Control in the Federal Government requires that agency managers perform risk assessment, take steps to mitigate identified risks, and monitor the effectiveness of those actions. The standards also require that authority and responsibility for internal controls be clearly defined. CMS oversight had weaknesses in each of these areas. As a result, CMS did not know if its control efforts were focused on areas of greatest risk. CMS also was not effectively implementing the controls it had in place. Furthermore, managers had not established performance standards for financial oversight activities, particularly their expenditure review activity. Limited data were collected to assess regional financial analyst performance in overseeing state internal controls and expenditures. In addition, the CMS audit resolution procedures did not collect enough information on the status of audit findings or ensure that audit findings were resolved promptly. CMS' current organizational structure lacks clear lines of authority and responsibility between the regions and headquarters."

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Employability assessment was developed to help claims professionals decide total and permanent disability insurance claims, yet it has not been empirically evaluated. This descriptive study sought formative knowledge about employability assessment from claims professionals working in the multibillion-dollar Australian life insurance total and permanent disability market. Claims assessors (n = 53) and technical advisors (n = 51) responded to a nationwide online survey. Participants found employability assessment was cost effective and very useful in deciding claims. Having an objective, realistic, and clear picture of a claimant's employment prospects was important. Highly rated components of employability assessment included transferable skills analysis; summary of education, training and experience; job match rationale; and labour market analysis with employer contact. Face-to-face claimant interviews were favoured by 56% of participants, particularly when there was legal involvement. Standardised provider training and certification were recommended to improve report quality and withstand scrutiny of the courts. Billing time estimates are higher than extant costs for assessment tasks. More than half (56%) the participants considered rehabilitation counsellors were best qualified to conduct employability assessments. The study findings contribute new knowledge to this emergent field and point to further research into quality and cost of employability assessment, and provider accreditation.

Can Africa Claim the 21st Century? This wasthe title of a World Bank report (World Bank,2000) issued to mark the beginning of the newmillennium. The report provided anassessment of sub-Saharan Africa's prospectsfor economic and social development in thetwenty-first century

Claims reserving is central to the insurance industry. Insurance liabilities depend on a number of different risk factors which need to be predicted accurately. This prediction of risk factors and outstanding loss liabilities is the core for pricing insurance products, determining the profitability of an insurance company and for considering the financial strength (solvency) of the company. Following several high-profile company insolvencies, regulatory requirements have moved towards a risk-adjusted basis which has lead to the Solvency II developments. The key focus in the new regime is that

Intro -- HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS: COMPENSATION AND LEGISLATION -- HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS: COMPENSATION AND LEGISLATION -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1 HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS: BACKGROUND AND PROPOSED LEGISLATION -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- General Background on Post-War Compensation -- Background on Insurance Issues -- THE INTERNATIONAL COMMISSION ON HOLOCAUST ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS (ICHEIC) -- Administration Policy on ICHEIC -- Key Points of Contention -- The ICHEIC Claims Process: Management and Oversight Issues -- ICHEIC Research and Publication of Names -- Policy Valuation -- LITIGATION OF HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS -- CONGRESSIONAL CONCERNS AND PROPOSED LEGISLATION -- Legislation Proposed in the 112th Congress: The Holocaust Insurance Accountability Act of 2011 (H.R. 890) and the Restoration of Legal Rights for Claimants under Holocaust-Era Insurance Policies Act of 2011 (S. 466) -- APPENDIX A. ICHEIC TIMELINE -- End Notes -- Chapter 2 HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE CLAIMS: FEDERAL COURT DECISIONS AND STATE STATUTES AND FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS -- SUMMARY -- INTRODUCTION -- BRIEF HISTORICAL BACKGROUND -- LITIGATION IN THE LOWER FEDERAL COURTS -- Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. v. Nelson -- Gerling Global Reinsurance Corp. v. Quackenbush/Low -- LITIGATION IN THE SUPREME COURT: AMERICAN INSURANCE ASSOCIATION V. GARAMENDI -- FEDERAL LEGISLATIVE RESPONSE -- H.R. 1210 - HOLOCAUST VICTIMS INSURANCE RELIEF ACT OF 2003 -- H.R. 1905 - COMPREHENSIVE HOLOCAUST ACCOUNTABILITY IN INSURANCE MEASURE -- S. 972 - COMPREHENSIVE HOLOCAUST ACCOUNTABILITY IN INSURANCE ACT -- S. 1184 - HOLOCAUST VICTIMS' ASSETS, RESTITUTION POLICY, AND REMEMBRANCE ACT -- H.R. 3129 - HOLOCAUST VICTIMS INSURANCE FAIRNESS ACT -- APPENDIX: STATE LAWS CONCERNING HOLOCAUST-ERA INSURANCE ASSETS -- End Notes

The present study aims to assess the relationship between management ability, political influence, and financial pressure, as well as deferred claims, of the listed banks on the Tehran Stock Exchange. Data of the banks on the Tehran Stock Exchange have been assessed from 2009 to 2017, to assess the effect of management ability, political influence, and financial pressure on bank deferred claims. For evaluating the deferred claims, three indices of doubtful accounts, bank delays, and loan‐to‐deposit ratios were used. The findings of the study show that there is no relationship between managerial ability and bank delay indices. Furthermore, the results also reveal there is a relationship between political influences and state‐owned ownership, as well as doubtful accounts, and also the relationship between state‐owned ownership and the loan‐to‐deposit ratio is positive and significant.

Case name: Brown v. Purdue University North Central, et al., No. 3:12 CV 67 (N.D. Ind. 02/13/15).

Case name: Letter to: Nashville State Community College, No. 04‐14‐2001 (OCR 04/07/14).

The Issue Correlates of War (ICOW) research project began nearly 20 years ago by collecting data on territorial claims in South America. Since then, the ICOW territorial claims dataset has expanded to cover the entire world, while ICOW has collected new data on river claims and maritime claims and is beginning a new project on identity claims. This article discusses the development and expansion of ICOW data, illustrating how the additional datasets offer important new information and open up new avenues for scholarship.