Many states, such as Texas, have "prompt-payment" statutes requiring insurers to conduct thorough investigations to prove (or, rather, disprove) the cause of damage.
They are familiar with laws concerning payments and statutes of limitations for bills.
On another issue, the judge rejected the doctors' claim that they were entitled to more speedy payments under Medicare statutes, and he said that the doctors would have to be more specific if they wanted to pursue an assertion that state prompt-payment laws had been violated.
In February 1932, he rejected the new federal statute requiring payment of state revenues to the commonwealth and was dismissed by Gov. Philip Game.
Companies cannot be prosecuted for any such payments because the statute of limitations under the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, which prohibits payments to foreign government officials or third parties, expires after five years, said Peter Clark, deputy chief of the Justice Department's fraud division.
Federal investigators are looking at whether the payments violate the statute because of Alves' government and political roles in Macau, people familiar with the inquiry said.
"As between the accused and his client," Harlan argued, "he was not, in any true sense, compensated for the services alleged to have been rendered in violation of the statute, until by payment of the checks by the St . Louisbank he was relieved of all liability to the Riggs National Bank arising from his indorsing the checks to it".
When the Medomsley victims first sought redress, the Home Office used the statute of limitations to avoid payment.
D-Day is Wednesday, Aug. 1, when the Postal Service is obligated, by statute, to make a $5.5 billion payment, money that is supposed to be put aside to "prefund" health benefits for future retirees.
A third category in the statute reaches payments made by any person "while in the territory of the United States," so that transactions that involve an American subsidiary or transfers through a United States financial institution could be covered by the law.
In addition, the agency recommends that states require collectors to tell consumers that they are not entitled to sue on out-of-statute debt and that making a partial payment revives the entire liability.
