Would it bother you if you learned that the infertility doctor received a referral fee from the loan agency?
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And so in reality this move only means a marginally higher referral fee from Travelocity on hotel queries at Kayak.
Amazon operates an "associate" programme that allows websites to earn up to a 15% referral fee for purchases made through links to the retailer.
The result has been that local pension lawyers have now drifted into investment matters they have little or no expertise in handling, offering advice that may be tainted by the referral fee arrangements they have.
The Office of Special Counsel for Immigration Related Unfair Employment Practices (OSC) of the Civil Rights Division enforces the anti-discrimination provision of the Immigration and Nationality Act to ensure that individuals are not being discriminated against based on citizenship or immigration status and national origin with respect to hiring, firing, and recruitment or referral for a fee.
As for the actual fee-referral arrangements among the firms, those remain murky.
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"I have no doubt that 90 percent of people will be happy to pay a fee for a referral that they can't get any other way, " says Guericke.
There are too many Web sites aiming to book your flight, hotel and car rental bookings charging the vendor of said service a small fee for the referral.
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If the client wanted more help, Schwab later punted him off to a small army of 400 investment advisers, the independent financial planners who passed Schwab's sniff test for fee-based services and unbiased service and who agreed to pay referral fees for the clients.
Disclosure of referral fees should be made to the pension client both by the firm paying the fee and the firm receiving it.
And they continue to measure health care against the golden age of fee-for-service medicine, when they could see specialists without the bother of getting a referral from their primary physicians, and when their hapless employers simply picked up the tab.
The insurance industry's widespread acceptance of referral fees, to sell information about accident victims to claims management firms or to no-win, no-fee, law firms, will be made unlawful in personal injury claims.
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