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    distracted‚ or negligent driving involves failing to exercise normal care‚ or endangering people or property‚ while driving a vehicle. Many states are adding to their statutes specific language prohibiting use of certain technologies while driving. Some states include negligent driving under reckless or impaired driving statutes so that defendants plead to the lesser negligent-driving charge to avoid the more serious charge. Reckless driving is a more serious form of careless or negligent driving

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    Adelphia's Fraud

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    remaining deadlocked on most of the counts against him. Because the Adelphia scandal emerged after the one at Enron‚ and the company was smaller in size than WorldCom or Tyco‚ it has garnered less public attention. But for the sheer audacity of the fraud‚ it ranks high up on the list. Adelphia executives testified that they routinely made up numbers that they gave to investors and lenders‚ even while the Rigases regularly withdrew money from the company without making reimbursements. Testimony at the

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    Q&A 2 Certainty of terms and intention Introduction Contractual certainty If businessmen are often not overly-concerned with the niceties of offer and acceptance it follows that their contracts may not be all-embracing and complete in every respect. The parties may have reached an agreement in principle and then prefer to rely on experience from previous dealings‚ business practice and goodwill. The law’s overall policy is to uphold bargains wherever possible and although businessmen tend to

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    Healthsouth Fraud

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    HealthSouth Fraud Case Review Michelle F. White June 6‚ 2012 HPA 726 Intro to HealthSouth Fraud Case Review In 2003‚ HealthSouth was accused of one the largest accounting fraud cases in healthcare history and those involved are still being tried today‚ nine years later. HealthSouth was founded in Birmingham‚ Alabama in the year 1984 by a respiratory therapist name Richard

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    Fraud Detection

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    1 Fraud Fraud can be defined as any activity that leads to the obtaining of financial advantage of causing of loss by implicit or explicit deception. It is the mechanism through which the fraudster gains an unlawful advantage or causes unlawful loss. There are many different types of fraud‚ I would like to mention some of the well known fraud types in the area of the Internet‚ which is an area where more than one billion peole are in touch with everyday. Fraud Terminology • Auction Fraud : involves

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    of Committing Fraud: Position Equals Power The amount of money lost to an internal corporate fraud is most significantly influenced by the perpetrator’s position in the organization. When we look at various characteristics of those committing fraud‚ this makes sense‚ because access creates opportunity. Typically‚ the higher a person moves in a company‚ the greater access she or he is granted to information‚ assets‚ data‚ and people. That creates more opportunities to commit fraud. Men and women

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    Fraud and embezzlement

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    How is Fraud and Embezzlement defined as? Fraud is defined “the abuse of a position‚ or false representation‚ or prejudicing someone’s rights for personal gain (Serious Fraud Office‚ 2013). In Moore v. United States‚ (1895)‚ the Supreme Court defined embezzlement in the following terms: Embezzlement is the fraudulent appropriation of property by a person to whom such property has been entrusted‚ or into whose hands it has lawfully come. It differs from larceny in the fact that the original taking

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    Contract

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    party or some forbearance‚ detriment‚ loss or responsibility‚ given‚ suffered or undertaken by the other”. In relation to Rent a Tents contract with Susie the terms of the contract are that in return for Rent a Tent providing a marquee for the birthday weekend Susie will pay £2‚000. This is a binding contract as the several requirements to make a binding contract are‚ offer and acceptance‚ intention to create legal relations and consideration. ‘. However Rent a Tent then approached Susie and

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    cyber fraud

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    Introduction : We have seen a spate of cyber frauds in the recent past. The frequency and scale of the incidents has created a lot of concerns for the banks‚ regulators and customers. What do banks in India have to learn from these? Are they doing enough to ensure that we don’t end up as sitting ducks? What preventive measures to take to face this new menace? Before we consider these and other related questions‚ we need to understand the anatomy of cyber frauds. Cyber Fraud is a generic term used to represent

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    Fraud Investigator

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    Fraud Investigator NAME COURSE NUMBER DATE Fraud Investigator If I were to be a part of the fraud examiner career field‚ I would have to choose the fraud investigative field. There are a wide variety of companies that hire fraud investigators; for example insurance agencies‚ realtors‚ banks‚ online retailers and also the government. There are plenty of other types of companies that need fraud investigators‚ because it is‚ unfortunately‚ an all too common crime. The job posting I found is

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