The complaint, 74 pages long, said that "the fraudulent scheme could cause the R.R.B. to pay unwarranted occupational disability benefits exceeding $1 billion dollars if disbursed in full".
The fraudulent scheme could cause the federal Railroad Retirement Board to pay unwarranted benefits of more than $1 billion, the complaint added.
The Dominican Republic does not license its agents, and novice buyers may sometimes be pressed to pay unwarranted "commissions," so buyers are strongly advised to educate themselves about the market, Mr. Parekh said.
By forcing patients to spend months fighting to recoup out-of-pocket costs or avoid paying unwarranted bills, insurers increase the chances that patients will simply give up, too occupied with the daily grind of work, family obligations and (most cynically) their illnesses to spend hours a week battling unfriendly "customer service" personnel about unhelpful forms.
ENCODE used methodologies encouraging biased errors in favor of inflating estimates of functionality, it consistently and excessively favored sensitivity over specificity, and it paid unwarranted attention to statistical significance, rather than to the magnitude of the effect.
Joining the chorus of criticism against big payouts, the president of the central bank, Jean-Claude Trichet, urged banks that had recently returned to profitability to use the cash to "strengthen their capital positions, rather than to distribute a large part of their profits or to pay out unwarranted levels of compensation or bonuses".
Overtime pay sometimes appeared unwarranted; lecturers were sometimes paid double, triple or quadruple the usual amount per lecture; pay raises and bonuses were doled out with little recorded justification.
The workers' representatives, appointed by the unions, have to give 95% of anything that they are paid above a modest €3,500 a year to the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, a trades-union foundation.In recent years German companies have been "doling out unwarranted pay" to their executives, says Christian Strenger, a former CEO of DWS Investment and a member of the Cromme Commission.
The board of cash-strapped Telecom Italia rejected the proposal, arguing that the pay-off was unwarranted, given how poorly shares in the group have performed.
As reasonable people chip away at unwarranted CEO pay, even the rich are beginning to admit that something needs to be done.
To the Editor: I have a simple solution to the unwarranted bonuses paid at A.I.G.: a salary freeze.
