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Jun-13-07 New Orleans, LA Whistleblowers can take on many forms - from the tough-talking advocate to the quietly courageous, both seeing a wrong and, come hell or high water, just has to say something about it. Dara Fresco falls into the latter category. On the day in early June that she launched her Cdn. $600 million class action lawsuit against CIBC Bank in C... - Crusading Lawyer Demands Congressional Action against Long-Term- Care Insurers
Apr-5-07 Chicago, IL: Imagine being in your 70's and 80's and having your health fail to the extent that you need expensive long-term care in a special facility. But you take some consolation in the fact that you've been paying long-term-care insurance premiums for a number of years. At least you and your family won't be burdened with tens of thousands of dollars... - Termination for Disability Illegal
Sep-25-06 Sacramento, CA "Millions of people that innocently buy long term disability insurance through their workplace need to know how insurance companies profit from the misery of others," says Lana Milligan, "and at the same time, have it sanctioned by acts of Congress and our courts." "My insurance company, Aetna, refused to pay me long term disability. I... - Oxford Insurance Problems Ongoing
Sep-23-06 New York, NY: Oxford insurance has had a couple of major disputes over the last few months. The disputes could have wide-reaching implications for Oxford insurance, its subscribers, and the hospitals in its network. Most recently a New York woman was charged for using a doctor outside the Oxford Health Plan network. It's not unusual for an insurance... - Farmers Insurance won't honor its Auto Policy?
Feb-18-06 Minnie Kaplan, from South Beach, FL is frustrated. She was involved in a car accident a few years ago. The police and insurance investigators found the driver of the vehicle that hit her completely liable, yet she is still waiting to be compensated for her medical bills. Clearly, her insurance company, [ Farmer's Insurance ], has acted in bad faith. K... - Keeping Track of a Bad Faith Insurance Claim
Mar-29-14 San Diego, CA When it comes to reasons why people experience denied disability insurance , the list can be long. Sometimes, a California insurance claim is denied for legitimate reasons. But all too frequently, denials are the result of bad faith insurance, when the insurer acts with disregard for its policyholders and the contracts they have signed. In... - Plaintiffs Seeking $22 Million in Home Warranty Insurance Lawsuit
Mar-3-14 San Diego, CA The thrust and intent behind home warranty insurance is to protect the parties involved from defects in workmanship and materials. New construction is usually accompanied by coverage warranting against defects from initial occupation until an agreed period of termination, at which time many homeowners will seek out home warranty companies... - Settlement Proposed in Nationwide Insurance Class Action
Washington, DC: A federal court has preliminarily approved a settlement with Nationwide Insurance that resolves allegations brought in a federal class action lawsuit, that the insurer improperly reduced or denied insurance benefits to residents in Delaware. If you submitted personal injury protection ("PIP") medical expense claims to Nationwid... - Lawsuit Filed Over California Insurance
Aug-25-13 Los Angeles, CA Denied disability claims might be one of the most common reasons for filing a California insurance lawsuit but it certainly is not the only reason. True, many an insurance lawsuit alleges denied disability insurance or denied ERISA disability, but how long-term insurance plans are managed can also be the source of a lawsuit filing. T... - Force-Placed Insurance Companies, Banks Face Regulators and Homeowners Over Policies
Jul-31-13 Los Angeles, CA Force-placed insurance companies face an increasing number of lawsuits over their policies and practices. In addition to homeowners filing their own force-placed insurance lawsuits, regulators have joined in, alleging companies have compounded the financial problems of struggling homeowners by requiring force-placed insurance on properti... - A Home Warranty Insurance Story with a Twist
Jul-3-13 Naples, FL The need for home warranty insurance is a given, to protect the homeowner from shoddy workmanship on the part of a contractor or subcontractor. To that end, much has been written about home warranty companies and corresponding lawsuits when home warranty companies stoop to bad faith insurance practices to the detriment of a homeowner facing... - Seniors: Beware of Long Term Disability Care Insurance Scammers
May-31-12 Tallahassee, FL It's one of the most unsavory crimes against a vulnerable segment of society— taking advantage of seniors . To that end, the Chief Financial Officer (CFO) for the state of Florida announced in May the arrest of Neal Seth Smalbach, 49, under suspicion of grand theft in the misrepresentation of details relating to financial products t... - Jury Gives $12M Award in Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit
Nov-27-11 Albuquerque, NM The jury in a bad faith insurance lawsuit has given the family of a man injured in a car crash $12 million dollars, after finding that Progressive Insurance Co., practiced bad faith insurance. According to the Albuquerque Journal (10/ 29/11), Martin Vigil was driving a truck on November 4, 2002, when he lost control of the vehicle... - Denied Insurance Coverage for Proton Beam Therapy
Feb-24-21 Santa Clara, CA Proton beam radiation therapy (PBRT) is purportedly a safer and more effective cancer treatment than x-ray or photon-based treatments and less invasive than surgery, but some insurance companies deny coverage, which has led to bad faith insurance lawsuits . Despite doctors recommending proton therapy treatment to treat cancer, some insu... - Defense Base Act Benefit Denial Lawsuit News & Legal Information
The Defense Base Act (DBA) is a federal law that provides Worker’s Compensation and Death Benefits for civilian employees working outside the United States on U.S. military bases or under a contract with the U.S. government for public works or for national defense, according the United States Department of Labor. The DBA is designed to provide injured... - LandAmerica Financial Corp. Group Inc. agrees to $3.5 million settlement in unfair insurance practices lawsuit.
San Jose, CA: (Jan-16-08) The Department of Insurance and Insurance Commissioner Steve Poizner brought lawsuits against several LandAmerica companies, alleging unfair practices in rating and underwriting, including failure to follow their own rates, resulting in premium overcharges for many consumers purchasing residential title insurance policies. The c... - Hartford Insurance Co. Town Hall Fire Insurance Settlement
Griswold, CT: (Aug-16-07) The town of Griswold brought a lawsuit against Hartford Insurance Co. over an insurance policy on the old town hall, which was destroyed by a fire in early 2006. A claim was filed after the old town hall, located at 32 School St., was gutted by a blaze on Jan. 3, 2006. It was later discovered that the building's insurance policy h... - Bad Faith Insurance: Stall, Delay and Deny
May-27-09 Tampa, FL Say you go to the Winn-Dixie to buy three quarts of milk. You hand over your money at the checkout; the attendant smiles and takes two quarts you've just bought away from you. Your purchase has just been reduced and you leave with one quart, having paid for three. Sadly, that scenario plays out in the long-term-care insurance industry every day... - Report: Unum Insurance Among the Worst
Apr-28-16 Portland, OR: If you went only by television commercials, you’d think most insurance customers were satisfied with their insurance experience, happy with the service they received and the claims process. Of course, it’s in their best interests for insurance companies to make themselves look good: customers won’t buy their policies if repo... - Mothers Denied Long Term Care Insurance
Dec-19-08 Sacramento, CA People rely on long term care insurance to provide help if and when they are unable to help themselves. Policy holders are entitled to have the costs of assisted living, managed care or home health paid for by their health insurance company if they suffer from serious and chronic physical or mental illness, disability or impairment. Yet ma...