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Jesse Maxwell V. Aig Domestic Claims Inc Case Summary

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1 In the case of Jesse Maxwell v. AIG Domestic Claims, Inc. the final verdict was justifiable due to the nature of how Mr. Maxwell was treated. The premise of the case of insurance fraud claims by AIG was provoke due to inadequate evidence from an AIG private investigator. The reason the case pushed for so long was the mental status of Mr. Maxwell who was a former hard-working employee of Bay State Paper Company. Mr. Maxwell on October 8, 2000, suffered an on the job injury that results in workers compensation claim for injury. During the time of injury, Mr. Maxwell was unable to work and collected income from the claim. The defendant Mr. Maxwell wanted to work and had a loyal history of working on time at The Bay State Paper Company. One of the issues of the case stated by AIG was that Mr. Maxwell was working during his time of collection and was receiving an income from janitorial …show more content…

Maxwell on personal dislike seem to be personal. The enforcement on Mr. Maxwell was too harsh from criminal checks to a private investigator following a man who was living in a shelter. Mr. Maxwell was not living a lavish lifestyle or buying the excessive thing he was just trying to get some compensation due to the pain caused from work injury at the Bay State Paper Company. AIG could have dig deeper into the working allegation to see if Mr. Maxwell was receiving financial support from doing janitorial work. AIG treat Mr. Maxwell with no respect or sympathy for being homeless or suffering mental issue from the long drawn out case. The result of the case provides how unethical the defense team was towards Mr. Maxell with wanting criminal charges after knowing Mr. Maxwell was not being paid at all for his services. The Bay State Paper Company should have compensated Mr. Maxwell based on the injury location at their

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