New York's highest court of appeals has held that no-fault insurers cannot deny no-fault benefits where they unilaterally determine that a provider has committed misconduct based upon alleged fraudulent conduct. The Court held that this authority belongs solely to state regulators, specifically New York's Board of Regents, which oversees professional licensing and discipline. This follows a similar recent ruling in Florida reported in this publication.
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"A dose-response association exists between exposure to work stress and the metabolic syndrome. Employees with chronic work stress have more than double the odds of the syndrome than those without work stress, after other risk factors are taken into account. [This] study provides evidence for the biological plausibility of psychosocial stress mechanisms linking stressors from everyday life with heart disease."
Source
Chandola T, Brunner E, Marmot M. Chronic stress at work and the metabolic syndrome. BMJ Online, Jan. 20, 2006.