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Aug-16-10 San Diego, CA Unum is working to distance itself from its unsavory past, but it's hard to escape the details that are emerging from various lawsuits brought by disgruntled and distraught Unum insurance policyholders who allege to have been wronged by the massive insurance provider. Trial lawyer William Turley of San Diego, who sits on the Board of G... - Chinese Drywall Litigation Heats Up
Jul-28-10 Miami, FL Having recently lost a Chinese drywall lawsuit, Banner Supply Company is now facing a class action lawsuit, which will attempt to include all Florida homeowners who bought drywall from the distributor. The class action alleges that Banner knew the drywall was defective in 2006 and was negligent in not warning consumers. Meanwhile, homeowne... - Fender Bender Air Bag Deployment Left Texas Woman with Eye Damage
Mar-24-17 Harlingen, TX A woman from Harlingen, Texas in the Rio Grande Valley was driving through her neighborhood on December 8, 2015 when she had a fender bender in her 2012 Honda Civic. According to Mary Lou Rodriguez she clipped a parked truck at no more than 15 miles per hour. There was a huge bang as the airbag deployed thrusting her body backwards in... - UnumProvident Corp. Insurance Settlement
A lawsuit was filed against the nation's largest disability insurer for allegedly misinterpreting job classifications, improperly overruling doctors' opinions, and knowingly using incorrect insurance definitions to avoid paying benefits. California subsidiaries of UnumProvident have agreed to settle with the California Department of Insurance after two... - California Voters Weighed In: Gig Workers are Independent Contractors
Nov-12-20 Santa Clara, CA Proposition 22, approved by California voters in November, has classified drivers for app-based companies as independent contractors . Ten million votes were counted and the resolution led by nearly 2 million votes. The ballot measure was considered a last-ditch effort by gig companies to get around California’s AB5 law, whic... - Health Insurance Fraud Lawsuit News and Legal Information
A doctor charges $200 for an office visit, but only $80 is covered by the insurer leaving the patient to pay the difference. Investigators allege that health insurance companies are forcing patients to pay more than they should when using doctors and hospitals outside their insurer's networks. Investigators claim an industrywide scheme is deceiving an... - Yale University Pension Plan Lawsuit Heading to Jury Trial
Dec-12-22 Hartford, CT On October 21, 2022, the Federal District Court for the District of Connecticut held that participants in the Yale University Retirement Account Plan will have an opportunity to present their allegations of financial mismanagement to a jury. The ERISA lawsuit alleges that plan administrators violated their ERISA fiduciary duty t... - Colorado Bill Aimed to Prevent Unum-like Denials
Apr-1-10 Denver, CO With an eye towards preventing the kinds of practices once employed by Unum over the years and under a variety of names, including First Unum, Unum Insurance and Unum Provident, the Colorado Senate in early March passed a bill that would prohibit the payments of bonuses or financial incentives by insurance companies to adjusters who deny or... - Illinois National Insurance Co. Sunoco MTBE Settlement
Sunoco filed a lawsuit against the insurance provider regarding coverage for dozens of pending lawsuits over alleged groundwater contamination caused by methyl tertiary butyl ether, a gasoline additive manufactured by Sunoco. The lawsuits against Sunoco alleged MTBE was defectively designed and constituted a dangerous product, and that Sunoco breached a... - IPhone Users Committing Insurance Fraud to Get Newest Models
Feb-10-10 Cupertino, CA Apple has generated enormous customer loyalty with its line of computers and personal electronics. However, a recent report claims that many users of the company's immensely popular iPhone may routinely commit insurance fraud in the hopes of picking up the newer, faster models. Carmi Korine, a director at Supercover Insurance, claims t... - Anthem Health Plans Denied Coverage Settlement
On October 19, 2003, carpenter John Ellis fell from the roof of a two story house. Ellis suffered a collapsed lung, fractured nine ribs, broke his collarbone and lower four vertebrae and surgeons had to remove a ruptured spleen. He had applied for health insurance on September 2, 2003. The next day, he paid his first premium of $370 which Anthem cashed... - Qui Tam Whistleblower - Government Fraud - Qui Tam Lawsuit
Qui tam is a law passed by Congress that allows a private individual with knowledge of fraud committed against the federal government to act as a government whistleblower and bring about a qui tam lawsuit on behalf of the US. Any situation where a company or individual has defrauded the government comes under the False Claims Act, including Medicare... - Qui Tam FAQ
Qui Tam FAQ... - HMO of Louisiana, Inc. Denied Investigation Settlement
Christiane Gullung Hymel recently obtained a health insurance policy from Blue Cross. She attempted to pre-certify a diagnostic MRI to determine if she had a tumor in her spine. Blue Cross denied the 33 year old homemaker's request, asserting that there was no coverage for the diagnostic MRI because they believed the request to be associated with a pre-... - Hospital Overcharges Up in the Air
Dec-8-16 Lubbock, NM: Not only do hospitals overcharge patients, mostly uninsured patients, for emergency room visits. One air ambulance company that provides emergency air medical service is facing several class action lawsuits alleging overpricing. The air transport company (it has several names including Rocky Mountain Holding Co., Native Air and Air Me... - Hospital Overcharging Made Worse by Out-of-Network Practitioners
Nov-29-16 New York, NY: Beyond any attempt to determine why emergency room charges are so high in New York and other states, is the reality of sometimes receiving treatment from a practitioner outside of a patient’s insurance network, leaving the patient with little choice but to cover the bill. In a situation such as this, it equates to finding oneself un... - New Survey Revives Memories of LINA Disability Claims Debacle
Nov-23-09 Belleville, IL A new survey of seniors enrolled in Social Security Disability Insurance (SSDI) claims that the majority of applicants find the process overly complicated and confusing, prompting fears that the federally funded organization is taking advantage of the elderly in a manner reminiscent of the LINA insurance controversy. SSDI claimants re... - State Farm Urged to Settle Potential Bad Faith Insurance Claim
Nov-6-09 Biloxi, MO A judge in a bad faith insurance case with a wealth of experience in settling insurance claims has urged State Farm to settle an alleged bad faith insurance claim before the matter goes to trial. Gulfport US District Court Judge L.T. Senter, Jr., who has more than 2400 Katrina insurance settlements to his credit, cautioned attorneys repre... - CDR Enterprises securities fraud Settlement
The US Department of Justice will receive $225 million to release the company from Executive Life Insurance Co. fraud claims. CDR already paid the Department $375 million in 2003. Aurora National Life Assurance Co., who purchased Executive Life bonds under misinformed pretenses, has agreed to pay $80 million to the Department. It is a violation of Califor... - Uninsured Patients in Greater Danger of Hospital Overcharges
Oct-28-16 Crestview, FL: Most individuals requiring hospital treatment in the US remain fearful as to what happens after the fact. In other words, when the emergency room charges come in, or the associated charges with a hospital stay come in. Regardless of whether or not a patient is insured, the end result is the same: a process that often extends weeks, or ev...