Reference no: EM133200867
Question 1. What is an amicus and who were they in this case?
Question 2. What is the IFB and what was its role in this case?
Question 3. Identify three things AIGDC did to avoid paying worker's compensation benefits to plaintiff.
Question 4. What is the doctrine of present execution and why was it relevant to this case?
Question 5. What were the issues on appeal and what was the Supreme Judicial Court's ruling on those issues?
Question 6. When can an insurer report a suspected to fraud to the IFB and under what circumstances can an insurer be sued for that reporting?
Question 7. Who has the burden of proving that the insurer acted with malice on in bad faith and why is the burden on that party?
Question 8. Why did AIGDC claim that Maxwell's claims were barred by the worker's compensation statute and what response did the appellate court have to that argument?
Question 9. Why did Maxwell plead guilty to criminal charges and why did the court later allow him to withdraw that plea?
Question 10. Generally an appellate court will not hear an interlocutory appeal. Why did it so in this case?
Question 11. In five sentences, (no more, no less), critique the conduct of AIGDC in this case.