LIFE ASSURANCE.—MEDICAL FEES.

Fees for Medical Reports for Life Assurance

To the Editor op the "Indian Medical Gazette." Dear Sir,? I send for perusal, .and publication, if you think fit, a copy of some correspondence which has taken place between the Manager of the Oriental Life Assurance Company of Bombay and myself, regarding the amount of the fee paid by that company for a medical report on an applicant for assurance. You will notice that the Manager considers th...

No user fees, but perhaps user fees.

Economic Crisis and Audit Fees

Economic crisis generally increases firms’ bankruptcy and consequently audit risk. Hence, auditors are more likely to respond to this increased risk through increasing audit fees. However, in the lack of adequate empirical and theoretical evidence, the role of this macro-economic variable, economic crisis, is not clearly demonstrated on audit fees. Therefore, this study investigates the role of...

Impact Fees andHousing Affordability

Approximately 60 percent of U.S. cities with more than 25,000 residents now impose impact fees to fund infrastructure needed to service new housing and other development (GAO, 2000). In 89 jurisdictions selected for study in California, the state in which impact fees are most heavily used, the average amount of fees imposed on singlefamily homes in new subdivisions in 1999 was $19,552, with fee...

Miscellaneous Student Fees