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		<title>Extended Warranty: Do you Need it? What if a Repair Claim is Denied?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/extended-warranty-do-you-need-it-what-if-a-repair-claim-is-denied-09389.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:19:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Consumer Fraud]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bad Faith Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extended Warranty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Home Warranty]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[home-warranty-insurance-lawsuit]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[We've been trained for years now by consumer advocacy groups to "just say no" to most extended warranties. It's become a Pavlovian response. But then why are these protection plans still around if no one is buying them? Clearly some folks must be buying—and the question is, are they the smart ones or are we really doing the smarter thing by passing up what might seem like some extended warranty scam?]]></description>
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		<title>Woman&#8217;s FBI Fib Raises Red Flags in Insurance Scam</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/womans-fbi-fib-raises-red-flags-in-insurance-scam-08623.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/womans-fbi-fib-raises-red-flags-in-insurance-scam-08623.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Aug 2011 20:05:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Bridgette Buckner]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[FBI]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hallmark Services]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Identity Theft]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[File under &#8220;What the hell was she thinking?&#8221; Ok&#8211;here&#8217;s a flashback. 1984. Divine Sounds. &#8220;What People do for Money&#8221;. That&#8217;s it above. I&#8217;m thinking it must not of been on Bridgette Buckner&#8217;s Walkman way back when—otherwise she might&#8217;ve had a clue as to what would be in store for her should she ever foresee a future in fraud. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Think your Company-Sponsored Life Insurance has your back? Think again</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/think-your-company-sponsored-life-insurance-has-your-back-think-again-07163.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/think-your-company-sponsored-life-insurance-has-your-back-think-again-07163.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 14:01:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Faith Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denied Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[ERISA]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[life insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[In the realm of people being ripped off, there are a few stories that are often the most heart breaking. Seniors losing their life savings to Ponzi schemes, seniors suffering financial elder abuse at the hands of their own families and people being denied necessary medical treatment because of bad faith insurance practices. But there&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Topamax and Cleft Palate: Now the Insurance Battle</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/topamax-and-cleft-palate-now-the-insurance-battle-07205.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/topamax-and-cleft-palate-now-the-insurance-battle-07205.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 15:54:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drugs/Medical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Cleft Palate]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Claim Denial]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance Claims]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Topamax]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Topamax Birth Defects]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[topamax-birth-defects-topiramate-lawsuit]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/?p=7205</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hooding Eyelids? Cosmetic elective surgery. Frown lines and laugh lines? Cosmetic elective surgery. Cleft Palate? Cosmetic elective surgery. Wait—what was that last one? That&#8217;s the incredulous moment a number of parents experience after submitting insurance claims for their child&#8217;s cleft palate surgery. They find themselves hearing that their insurance company deems the surgery as either &#8220;cosmetic&#8221; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MetLife: Can you Sink any Lower to Avoid Paying a Claim?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/metlife-can-you-sink-any-lower-to-avoid-paying-a-claim-07161.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/metlife-can-you-sink-any-lower-to-avoid-paying-a-claim-07161.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Mar 2011 18:08:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Accidental Death and Dismemberment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Faith Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Jane Pierce]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[If there ever was a case for having a police force for insurance companies, it is this one. Jane Pierce could be the poster child for a clamp down on greedy, uptight insurers who will to a fault suspect the worst in people and grasp at any straw to avoid paying a claim. Have you [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Allstate Insurance Inspires Song &#8211; You&#8217;re Not in Good Hands</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/allstate-insurance-inspires-song-youre-not-in-good-hands-05184.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/allstate-insurance-inspires-song-youre-not-in-good-hands-05184.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 17:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Allstate]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[I love our readers at LawyersAndSettlements.com—there&#8217;s just no stopping the creativity and passion everyone exhibits when faced with a cause that&#8217;s near and dear to their hearts. The above video is from reader Layla Fanucci—it&#8217;s about Allstate Insurance. Now, I don&#8217;t really know the full story here on what inspired Layla to go and pen [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What&#8217;s the &#8220;Bad&#8221; in Bad Faith Insurance?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/whats-the-bad-in-bad-faith-insurance-04877.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/whats-the-bad-in-bad-faith-insurance-04877.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 07 Sep 2010 12:43:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Kristine B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Pleading Ignorance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Bad Faith Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Denied Insurance]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;ve probably seen the commercials on tv: an actor—say Dennis Haysbert—walks around talking about how &#8220;his&#8221; insurance company (that would be Allstate) is his best friend&#8230;how it has his back in a bad situation&#8230;how it has bent over backwards to help him in his time of need&#8230;and, damn if he doesn&#8217;t sound so sincere! Or you&#8217;ve seen Flo&#8211;the Progressive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip Side of Bad Faith Insurance: Gravy Train Claims</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/flip-side-of-bad-faith-insurance-gravy-train-claims-04047.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/flip-side-of-bad-faith-insurance-gravy-train-claims-04047.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 17 Jun 2010 19:17:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hunter West</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Balboa]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Kanawha]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Metropolitan Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Prudential]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Reassure America Life Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Unum]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Everybody likes to beat up on insurance companies for denying legitimate claims. And they should be taken to task for such behavior. Americans buy insurance policies in an effort to do the right thing, so as not to leave their families vulnerable in the event they are injured or incapacitated in some way. They pay [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Join me as I Submit my United Healthcare Out of Network Claim</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/join-me-as-i-submit-my-united-healthcare-out-of-network-claim-03737.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/join-me-as-i-submit-my-united-healthcare-out-of-network-claim-03737.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 May 2010 21:00:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Drugs/Medical]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Emerging Issues]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The much-anticipated Notice of Proposed Settlement for the United Healthcare (UHC) class action lawsuit about Out-of-Network (OON) charges being improperly reimbursed has finally landed in my mailbox—perhaps yours, too. Chances are, if you&#8217;ve received the UHC OON settlement notice, you glazed over it and tossed it aside while simultaneously feeling some sort of nagging inside—that [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fox Business Takes On WellPoint&#8230;in case you missed it</title>
		<link>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/fox-business-takes-on-wellpointin-case-you-missed-it-03212.html</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawyersandsettlements.com/blog/fox-business-takes-on-wellpointin-case-you-missed-it-03212.html#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:56:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AbiK</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Insurance]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Fox Business News]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[health insurance]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Bad public relations move at a very bad time&#8230;&#8221; Check it out:]]></description>
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