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Jun-27-24 New York, NY On May 31, U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Polk Failla denied Teachers Insurance and Annuity Association of America’s (TIAA) motion for summary judgment in a lawsuit that accused the insurance giant of aggressive and misleading sales tactics. TIAA’s “fear selling” strategy was crafted to persuade pension plan part... - MetLife Refuses to Disclose Background Claim Processing Principles
Jun-28-18 Jacksonville, FL: On April, 20, 2018, the United States District Court for the Middle District of Florida denied a Metropolitan Life benefit claimant the right to see the company’s internal claim processing guidelines. Perera v. Metropolitan Life Insurance Company actually relates to death benefits, but it relies heavily on an earlier decision in a... - Unum Insurance, It Appears, Will Do Anything to Avoid Paying a Claim
May-6-12 Chattanooga, TN One thing about the insurance industry: it is never boring. Witness allegations of claimants trying to pull the wool over Unum's eyes, as evidenced by one Unum lawsuit filed by a claimant attempting to extract benefits through alleged misrepresentation. It happens. But misrepresentation can also stem from agents of Unum…. Rega... - Unum: You Win Some, You Lose Some
Mar-26-18 Grand Rapids, MI: While you rarely hear about it, the fact remains that in some cases an insurance company that denies an insured short, or long-term disability benefits sometimes gets it right. To wit, a federal magistrate in Michigan earlier this month determined that Unum Life Insurance Company of America was within its rights to discontinue disability... - Emergency Room Charges Turned Her Stomach
Mar-13-12 Henderson, NV A Nevada woman who made her way to the emergency room of the Siena Campus of St. Rose Dominican Hospital in Henderson for suspected food poisoning was appalled with emergency room charges exceeding $10,000. According to the Las Vegas Review-Journal (3/12/12), a CT scan procedure represented the lion's share of that emergency room cost... - Is Unum Group in the Mining Business or Insurance Business?
Jan-13-12 New Orleans, LA The insurance industry in general and Unum in particular appear to be more inclined toward the mining business, rather than the insurance business. Mining, as in mining the depths for reasons to deny or discontinue benefits to policyholders. Many a Unum lawsuit makes such an allegation, and there appears to be plenty of examples. Lin... - Monsanto v. Scientists over Glyphosate as a Probable Carcinogen
Dec-11-17 Oakland, CA: As Monsanto Roundup lawsuits continue to percolate at the behest of plaintiffs alleging the popular herbicide and its primary ingredient causes non-Hodgkin lymphoma, details have emerged with regard to an intense campaign by the manufacturer to discredit scientists. Monsanto Roundup is a widely-used weed killer deployed by farmers, gard... - Potentially Fatal MRSA Bacteria Has Entered Food Chain
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is urging federal agencies to check for methacylin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in meat sold across the country. The highly infectious bacteria was recently found in farm workers and pigs in Iowa and Illinois by an assistant professor and her graduate students. In fact, they found that more than 70 percent of... - Century Foods to pay $2.5 million settlement in property lawsuit.
Sparta, WI: (Mar-18-08) Coulee Area Renewable Energy LLC. (CARE) brought a lawsuit against Century Foods International, over the proposed buyout of the 83.7-acre Sparta ethanol plant site. CARE brought charges in Monroe County Circuit Court in December 2007, claiming that Century Foods and Hormel Foods Corp., breached terms of an October 2007 settlement... - Hackettstown Livestock Auction pays $40,000 personal injury settlement after an escaped cow causes a car crash
Belvidere, NJ: (Feb-7-08) Stephen Van Campen of Independence Township, a former Warren County Community College trustee, brought charges against the city and Hackettstown Livestock Auction, after he sustained injuries when an escaped cow collided with his car. Records show that the cow escaped May 18, 2003 from the Hackettstown Livestock Auction building o... - Qualified Attorney Important for Florida Workers’ Compensation Claims
Aug-25-17 Tallahassee, FL: It comes as no surprise that any Florida worker requiring Workers’ Compensation for a job-related injury only to experience the headache and heartbreak of a Florida denied workers compensation claim , resorts to a Florida workers comp lawsuit. In fact, legal experts note that Florida is such an employer-friendly State; a good lawy... - Salmon River, US Government to pay $170 million to restore the San Joaquin River
Washington, DC: (Nov-15-07) The Natural Resources Defense Council filed a lawsuit against the US government in 1988, over restoring salmon to the San Joaquin River. The 19-year-long suit reached a settlement when a key US House committee approved legislation to implement a controversial water settlement, aimed at restoring salmon to the river. The deal was... - Unum Lawsuits Face SSDI Offset Snag
Aug-13-17 Phoenix, AZ: On August 7, 2017, a federal judge in Arizona denied a long term disability plaintiff’s motion for partial summary judgment based, roughly speaking, on the sheer worthlessness of his LTD ride, according to Lexis Legal News . The decision is more bad news for Unum lawsuit plaintiffs, who have long struggled with similar issue... - Beware of the Unum Questionnaire
Jan-17-11 Chattanooga, TN While it has been noted that Unum has been improving its customer satisfaction ratings—this, according to Zacks Investment Research—there are still those who harbor frustration with the life and disability insurance juggernaut. To that end, blogger Linda Nee, a former Unum employee, shares the situation of one Unum insurance... - Southern California Attorney Answers Dog Bite Questions
Jan-10-11 Dog bite injury lawyer Kip Scott and the Personal Injury Law Center team have over a decade of experience assisting people in the southern California area who have suffered a personal injury from a dog attack. The firm has recovered millions of dollars on behalf of their injured clients. There are more than 60 million dogs in the US, and 40 perc... - Smithfield Foods Inc. Hog Farm Damage Settlement Fund
Kansas, MO: (Jun-13-07) Missouri Attorney General Jay Nixon brought charges against Smithfield Foods Inc., who bought Kansas City-based Premium Standard Farms in May 2007 in a deal valued at $800 million. The suit was over environmental damage caused by Premium Standard's hog farms in the state. Nixon reached an agreement with Smithfield Foods that will pr... - The Best Strategy for Dealing with Proof of Disability Letters
Jun-7-17 Minneapolis, MN Individuals dealing with social security, workers compensation benefits , or short or long term disability claims are often faced with a flurry of forms. Answering an insurance company’s request for information in what is usually referred to as a Proof of Disability letter can be terrifying. There is every reason in the wo... - Unum Policy Holder Ignored
Oct-26-10 Newcastle, VA Most complaints Lawyers and Settlements receives about Unum concerns long-term disability denial. In Dave's case, his Unum insurance claim didn't even reach that stage. "Unum has totally ignored me," he says. Dave was fired from his job—ironically, he sold insurance—and suffered a severe depression, so much so that it took... - An Award-Winning Employee Culture at Unum Can’t Stop Lawsuits
May-27-17 Philadelphia, PA: Unum Group, which calls Chattanooga home, may hold a place amongst the Top 500 employers in the US as ranked by Forbes . However, such lofty plaudits have not stopped a Unum lawsuit from a woman who claimed Unum insurance stopped her benefits without just cause. The plaintiff in the case is Melissa Maiellano, who filed her Unum di... - Smithfield Foods Hog Waste Pollution Settlement
Raleigh, NC: (Mar-13-07) Smithfield Foods, the world's largest pork producer, reached a settlement in an environmental protection lawsuit filed by the state of North Carolina in 2000, in which it agreed to pay the state $50 million over 25 years to improve the environment. The money was offered after hog waste lagoons overflowed and polluted rivers and s...