Sentences with phrase «number of claims in»

Needs of government to reduce the number of claims in the system drove the changes, rather than the needs of Indigenous people and their human rights.

Insurance companies use a variety of factors such as the number of claims in an area, road conditions, and population size to help determine rates in your zip code.

Combined with a low number of claims in a generally safe city, this leads to low prices for everyone.

The regulator, which had examined 34 charges on a variety of aspects related to business, said the company had violated many norms, including not settling «huge» number of claims in respect of the group insurance schemes, continuation of corporate agency even after expiry of licence, use of unlicensed entities for procuring business and distribution of gift vouchers procured from Big Bazar, one of the group companies.

When setting your rate, insurance companies take into account the cost and number of claims in your neighborhood, your driving record, your credit history, the type of car you drive and other variables.

Furthermore, insurance companies base their quotes on risk which can be impacted by the number of claims in a certain area.

The primary factors are going to be your driving record, prior insurance, how many years you have been driving, the number of claims in the zip code you reside in, and the make & model of your vehicle.

Premiums are based on many factors, including the number of claims in your area (high crime areas usually cost more), your own claim history, the value of yourhome, the amount of your deductible, special risk factors (like pools and trampolines), your credit history, and any fire / theft safety measures you've taken or installed.

Though the rate of malpractice claims flowing from criminal cases is lower than in other areas of law, the number of claims in this area is on the rise, and for many of the same reasons we see in other areas.

Lawyers should also be alert to the potential for erosion of aggregate limits at the primary and excess level in the event a lawyer or firm faces a number of claims in the same policy period.

It is likely the number of claims in the Employment Tribunal (ET) and the Employment Appeal Tribunal (EAT) will increase following a significant reduction triggered by the fees.

Further, Whipple J disagreed with the defendant's assertion that it had a 94 % litigation success rate, as it was not the number of claims in each category but, rather, the test claims which created the overarching legal principles.

Ms Donelien brought a number of claims in the tribunal, including a claim for failure to make reasonable adjustments.

Though the rate of malpractice claims flowing from criminal cases is lower than in other areas of law, the number of claims in this area is on the rise of late, and for many of the same reasons we see in other areas.

He makes a large number of claims in the talk, some of which are even true, while some merely misrepresent the science.

Combined with a low number of claims in a generally safe city, this leads to low prices for everyone.

Assisted Catastrophe Services Claim Teams where and when needed, providing quick and accurate resolution to large numbers of claims in varying geographic locations.

Personal Independence Payment — Includes numbers of claims in payment, new claim registrations, decisions and awards made.

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Meanwhile, earlier this week, BuzzFeed wrote about a practice in which it claims a growing number of businesses are paying Facebook to promote positive news stories from publishers as sponsored posts.

A number of high - profile attacks in Afghanistan towards the end of January were claimed by competing terrorist groups ISIS and the Taliban — putting the spotlight back on a country that has been at war for over a decade.

Results showed that those who scored lowest on Honesty - Humility claimed to have rolled the target number about 75 % of the time, when in reality, their chances of winning were only about 17 %.

It also claimed that a number of other operatives died in the attack in Mukalla.

On Thursday, the U.S. Labor Department announced that the number of new jobless claims had hit its lowest mark in five and a half years, down 19,000 to 326,000.

In addition to claims he didn't know what clingfilm was — and was heard «shrieking» at the site of kitchen staff using it to wrap up cold cuts — and that he takes truckloads of possessions, including his own toilet seat, with him on royal trips, Tom Bower's «Rebel Prince» includes a number of claims about Charles» extravagant travel habits.

That was one of a number of claims by the president that called for scrutiny in the fierce backwash of Comey's accusations in Senate testimony that Trump exerted improper pressure on him to back off an FBI investigation.

Premiums are based on a number of factors, said Mike Van Elsberg, senior vice-president of claims in Intact's Western division.

Segui also said that it was not uncommon for an officer in the SVU to ask for the phone number of an alleged assailant from the person reporting the claim.

The claims report also showed the number of people receiving benefits after an initial week of aid fell 15,000 to 1.86 million in the week ended April 7.

Alcoa had voluntarily shut - off the plant's burner in 2002 after a number of multi-million dollar compensation claims were made against the company by workers relating to adverse health effects.

The authors claimed that an «Increasing numbers of academic studies are finding that mental health problems have been soaring among girls over the past 10 - and in particular five - years, coinciding with the period in which young people's use of social media has exploded.»

Regulators also took issue with a number of claims used to market the technology, particularly calling it a «first step in prevention» against diseases like diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.

If they had, the number would likely have been far more modest than what politicians would claim, as a significant portion of the increase in payrolls would have happened even without the tax rebate.

In January, the Department of Justice announced that McKesson had settled, for $ 150 million, civil claims that from 2008 to 2013 the company had failed to warn the DEA about the large number of suspicious orders of highly addictive painkillers it had shipped to certain parts of the country.

In addition, courts (though not human - rights tribunals) are raising the burden of proof for mental injury, which will likely limit the number of claims.

UBER benefitted by taking advantage of the unique circumstances in the cab industry and Manjoo claims that there are virtually no other major industries where those same characteristics apply — crappy customer experience; high, regulator - protected prices; monopolistic markets; huge numbers of daily users; lack of viable alternatives — ergo no more UBERs.

The challenge claimed that a majority of shareholders did not support the authorization, at the 2013 annual meeting, of an increase in the number of shares used to reward Souki and other executives; the very increase that made Souki the highest paid CEO in America (he received 6.3 million shares in February 2013).

The U.S. investigation into bribery and corruption at the governing body of world soccer took another twist Tuesday, as FIFA denied claims that its number two official, Secretary - General Jérôme Valcke, was involved in a suspect payment linked to the award of the 2010 World Cup to South Africa.

Some bad economic news this morning: New home sales rose slightly in April, but median housing prices fell sharply, as did the number of new unemployment claims, according to the Wall Street Journal.

Attorneys for McDonald's workers have filed class action suits in three states claiming that the company was responsible for illegally withholding wages in a number of ways, including calling people in but not paying them for all the time they were required to be in stores as well as charging for the costs of uniforms.

Several months later, The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) identified a number of compliance problems with the company — problems that the CMS claimed were putting patients in immediate jeopardy — and imposed serious sanctions on the firm and its leaders.

(At this point, it's also worth noting that Facebook's claims about the effectiveness of Free Basics as a development tool in India are highly debatable — the vast majority of those who took up the offer were existing Internet users who wanted some free data, and it seems a very small number of genuinely new users actually graduated to the world of paid - for Internet access.

Malcolm Gladwell may or may not have been completely right when he claimed that becoming a true expert in any subject requires 10,000 hours of practice, but whether his exact number stands up to scrutiny, the underlying truth still holds — getting good at things is time - consuming and involves a lot of hard work.

Officially, China's Supreme People's Court claims the number of executions has dropped by half since the court resumed reviewing death sentences in 2006.

Funding for firefighting has also declined in Russia, where environmental groups claim that the number of fires is significantly underreported.

«We'd love to proclaim these numbers as definitive evidence of a real downshift in the trend in claims, but it's even riskier than usual to put too much weight on single observations at this time of year,» says Shepherdson.

«By now, you've spent a good portion of your life learning things about yourself, steering those things in different directions, hiding them, claiming new identities and any number of other adjustments we all make (consciously or not),» Kurtz writes.

The move also comes as a number of retailers stake a claim in the growing «smart home» industry which centers on tech that does things like let people turn off the air conditioning remotely: Best Buy (bby) recently announced it was giving more floor space at 700 of its stores to better showcase Amazon's Echo as well as Google Home.

However, Delta claims steep increase in the number of animals on flights over the last few years reflects an abuse of the policy.

According to a number of copyright experts, Deadspin's distribution of GIFs of specific NFL plays would have a strong claim to being fair use for this reason, despite the fact that the NFL has a financial interest in the content.

Stanley Holdorf, an NLG attorney, told me, «There are a sufficiently large number of discrepancies and inconsistencies to raise credible concerns about the veracity of TDCJ claims that these photos and video were, in fact, shot on a single day in hurricane - affected units post-Harvey.»