This study examines whether the lure of injury compensation prompts whiplash claimants to overstate their symptoms. Claim settlement is the intervention of interest, as it represents the point at which there is no further incentive to exaggerate symptoms, and neck pain at 24 months is the outcome of interest. Longitudinal data on neck pain scores and timing of claim settlement were regressed, c...

We examine the relationship between derivatives hedging, risk-taking, and managerial compensation incentives from an enterprise risk management perspective in U.S. publicly traded property-liability insurance companies. We find that derivatives usage is negatively related to various risks, supporting the stabilizing effect of derivatives use for hedging purposes. Our evidence also shows that de...

Employing compensation data provided by 63 banks from 16 European countries for the period from 2000 to 2010 this paper empirically investigates the impact of excess variable compensation on bank risk. As a main finding, we provide evidence for a risk-increasing impact of excess variable pay for both executive variable cash-based and variable equity-based compensation. This baseline finding hol...

This paper examines variations in executive compensation as a function of CEO power. We assume that a CEO’s motivation to optimize his pay is conditional upon his ability to shape decisions that favor his interests. Power is inferred form overt manifestations such as share holdings, but also from covert sources such as a CEO’s social capital. Two components of compensation are considered: base ...

The purpose of this study was to examine the effect company performance on executive compensation with family ownership as a moderating variable. sample is non-financial companies listed IDX in 2014 - 2018. There are 522 observational data study. This uses multiple linear regression and moderation analysis. Executive dependent variable firm independent Family results confirm positive compensati...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE The current treatment for femoral fractures in children is mostly operative, which contrasts with treatment of other long bone fractures in children. We analyzed treatment injuries in such patients in Finland in order to identify avoidable injuries. Our other aims were to calculate the incidence of these fractures and to describe the treatment method used. METHODS The P...

OBJECTIVE To describe causes of substandard care in obstetric compensation claims. DESIGN AND SETTING A nationwide descriptive study in Norway. POPULATION All obstetric patients who believed themselves inflicted with injuries by the Health Service and applying for compensation. METHODS Data were collected from 871 claims to The Norwegian System of Compensation to Patients during 1994-2008...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Tibial fractures comprise 10% of all fractures in children. To our knowledge there have been no previous reports of treatment injuries in these fractures. We analyzed compensation claims concerning treatment of these fractures in Finland. We used this information to determine preventable causes of treatment injuries. MATERIAL AND METHODS In Finland, the Patient Insuranc...

The Portland Digit Recognition Test (PDRT), a forced-choice measure of recognition memory designed for the purpose of assessing the possibility of malingering, was administered to two groups of clinically referred patients seeking financial compensation for injuries including a mild head trauma group and a brain dysfunction group and also to a third group with brain dysfunction not seeking comp...