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Sep-21-15 Lancaster, CA It pays to hire a lawyer with lots of experience dealing with the insurance companies . Take the case of the Cardona family from Palmdale, California. They asked the R. Rex Parris Law Firm for help after Jose Cardona, his wife Irene and their son Eduardo were seriously injured when a drunk driver crossed the center line and collided hea... - Bad Faith Insurance: Policy Holders Fight Back, Win Big
May-17-07 West Palm Beach, FL Welcome to the new world of bad faith insurance , where you can pretty much expect your insurance companies to nickel-and-dime your claim, try to get out of paying less and in many cases, denying your claim altogether. And don't even talk about rates. No, don't go there. But also a part of the new world of bad faith insurance, ar... - Harvoni Investigation Focuses on Problematic Insurance Industry Practices
Jun-11-15 Washington, DC Patients who have a life-threatening illness typically pray for a cure to be found. They don’t tend to expect that if a cure is found and approved by the FDA, that they would then have to fight with insurance companies to have their treatment covered. Unfortunately for many patients with hepatitis C, insurance companies are allegedly d... - WellPoint Sued for Illegal Practices
Nov-1-06 Los Angeles, CA WellPoint, Inc. and its subsidiaries are facing a class action suit for canceling insurance coverage even after they had authorized medical procedures, leaving patients to pay for their medical expenses. Defendants named in the suit are WellPoint, Inc. , Blue Cross of California, and Blue Cross Life and Health. According to the sui... - Blue Cross Errors Hurt Subscriber
Sep-23-06 Hampton, VA When Patricia Scales was in a car accident in January, 2005, the last thing she thought she'd have to worry about was her Wellpoint Blue Cross insurance coverage. After all, her primary insurance was covered by Blue Cross and her secondary insurance was covered by Medicaid. Now, almost two years after the accident, she's being taken to... - Merck Insurance Carriers Jump Ship Over Vioxx Disaster
Sep-15-06 Whitehouse, NJ According to Merck's August 7, 2006, SEC filing, "At this time, the Company believes that its insurance coverage with respect to the Vioxx Lawsuits will not be adequate to cover its defense costs and any losses." In addition, Merck says it has not established any reserves for potential liability relating to the Vioxx lawsuits or inves... - Allstate Fights Bad Faith Insurance Lawsuit Assignment
Aug-13-14 Pittsburgh, PA Allstate has filed a brief asking the Pennsylvania Supreme Court to stop a practice that allows policyholders to assign claims in a bad faith insurance lawsuit . The company argues that allowing bad faith claims to be assigned will create “potential windfalls” for plaintiffs. The issue arises from a 2007 car accident. Accor... - Disability Insurance Presents Issues for Some Policyholders
May-7-14 Chicago, IL Many people know that having disability insurance is generally a good thing. It helps in cases of serious illness or injury that prevents a person from working and therefore causes a financial hardship. But many people are hesitant about disability insurance because of the frequency of stories involving denied disability insurance and disab... - The No Surprises Act Not Foolproof
Feb-23-22 Santa Clara, CA The No Surprises Act, that went into effect January 1, 2022 intends to provide protection against surprise medical bills such out-of-network bills for in-network hospitals and services such as an air ambulance ride (not ground ambulance) to an in-network hospital. But don’t be surprised if you get a surprise bill… Out-Of-N... - Monsanto RoundUp Lawsuit Update
Sep-18-23 Santa Clara, CA The last few months have been busy for Bayer and Monsanto’s legal team and Roundup lawsuits . The U.S. Supreme Court refused to review a $39 million Roundup settlement regarding cancer warnings on Roundup; the latest Roundup cancer trial is underway in Missouri and south of the border; and a U.S. dispute settlement panel challenges M... - State Cracks Down on Denied Disability Insurance for Autistic Kids
Nov-28-13 Sacramento, CA The state of California is invoking a hard stance based on California Insurance Law as well as moral grounds with regard to the denial of speech and occupational therapy to patients in need of services deemed medically necessary. According to the Los Angeles Times (11/19/13), Health Net Inc., Anthem Blue Cross, and Blue Shield are t... - California Insurance Lawsuits Filed against Anthem Blue Cross
Nov-9-13 Los Angeles, CA California insurance lawsuits have been filed against Anthem Blue Cross, alleging policyholders were misled into canceling their insurance coverage. The lawsuit was filed after two plaintiffs were allegedly pressured into giving up insurance policies that should have been grandfathered in under new health care laws, and alleges violation... - When It Comes to Home Warranty Companies, Not All Are Created Equal
Sep-27-13 Sparks, NV When consumers purchase home warranty insurance , the expectation is that the home warranty companies that offer the warranties are properly licensed and able to conduct business. Unfortunately, some consumers find out too late that their home warranty company is improperly conducting business in their state, sometimes leaving the home owners... - A Tale of Two Home Warranty Insurance Claims
Apr-9-13 Vancouver, BC Given the pace and variety of construction when it comes to new homes, home warranty insurance is a must. But just as a contractor can often be taken to task for shoddy workmanship, so too can an insurance company when they drop the ball, or at the very least keep the homeowner in limbo. As reported by North Shore News (3/15/13), a c... - Denied Disability Insurance: A Tale of Two Extremes
Mar-6-13 Sacramento, CA Sometimes a denied disability insurance claim goes for the plaintiff, and sometimes the pendulum swings for the defendant. But whichever way the cookie crumbles, a claimant advocate maintains that the sad truth is that the vast majority of claims wind up being stamped “denied ERISA disability,” or some such denial. “... - Amputees’ Fight for Insurance Coverage Focuses on ‘Medical Necessity’ of Microprocessor Prosthetics
Sep-4-18 Washington, DC Lucky to live, unlucky to lose a foot or a leg, survivors of the Boston Marathon bombing soon found themselves facing the harsh truth of inadequate insurance coverage for their prosthetic care. Years on, the good news is that microprocessor-enhanced artificial limbs have gotten better. The bad news is that insurance companies like Anthem... - Hartford Insurance Denies Disability Benefits and Pays Millions to bail out a town
Aug-13-18 Hartford, CT: Imagine that an injury results in you being disabled and unable to return to work. You apply for long term disability but Hartford, your insurance company, denies your benefits. You don’t have any savings and no other source of income. And then you find out that Hartford, along with two other insurance companies, bails out the town of Har... - Surveillance Sinks Liberty Mutual Long Term Denied Disability Lawsuits
Jul-12-18 Boston, MA Fifty minutes and fifty-eight seconds of video showed Donna Cusson walking her dog, shopping, and eating in a restaurant. That was enough to doom her long term denied disability lawsuit against Liberty Mutual. It is an eight-year old case , so some things have changed -- not the fact of surveillance in LTD cases, though. And now it’s not... - Unum Claims Denials Cited as Defying Medical Science: Court
Jul-8-12 Chattanooga, TN When the American Association for Justice (AAJ) put out its Top 10 List of worst insurance companies in the US, critics of Unum insurance were not surprised to find Unum named as the second-worst insurance company in America behind Allstate. And blogger Linda Nee writes that it's operational undertakings like systematic requests of poli... - $4.25M Settlement Reached in TCPA Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $4.25 million settlement been reached in a Telephone Consumer protection Act (TCPA) class action lawsuit brought against Florida-based Insurer A&B Insurance and Financial LLC. Filed by plaintiffs Jim Youngman and Robert Allen, the suit alleged the defendants made unauthorized sales calls to consumers, including people on the fe...