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Dec-10-08 Kingsbury, TX Melinda's 95-year-old mother was denied long term care health insurance because she could remember her name, therefore she was not 'cognitively impaired', which is one stipulation that Conseco life insurance says is necessary to qualify for long term care insurance in an assisted living facility. It was irrelevant that her mother couldn't... - 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... - 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... - 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... - 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. “... - 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... - Attorney Eleanor Hamburger puts the Heat on Nationwide Insurance
Apr-23-09 Seattle, WA: Hundreds of people in the state of Washington have been left with costly medical bills and no healthcare insurance , despite the fact that they thought they had purchased comprehensive coverage plans from Nationwide Insurance. Instead, they found Nationwide had collected premiums for policies that were not licensed for sale in Washington and... - 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... - Oregon Requires Insurers to Cover Autism Therapy
Dec-22-14 Salem, OR Oregon has become the latest state to require insurers to include autism and other mental health conditions, rather than denying claims for such conditions. Insurance lawsuits have been filed in other states regarding insurers’ refusal to cover applied behavior analysis (ABA) therapy and other treatments linked to autism. According t... - Ozempic and Mounjaro Weight Loss Lawsuit News and Legal Information
Ozempic lawsuits allege Novo Nordisk failed to warn consumers that its diabetes and weight loss drug carries dangerous side effects, including severe gastroparesis (known as stomach paralysis), gastroenteritis, gallbladder disease and other serious health issues. Eli Lilly’s weight loss drug Mounjaro—and Ozempic’s competitor-- is also accus... - 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... - Unum Wins Again, at Least with Their Own
Oct-16-10 Chattanooga, TN While some policyholders may still have issues with how they are treated at the hands of Unum , the people who work for the insurance goliath apparently love to work there. As reported by the October 4th issue of Business Wire , the insurance provider once known as Unum Provident took home top honors for Best Places to Work in the insu... - $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... - $39M Settlement Reached in USAA Auto Insurance Class Action Lawsuit
Santa Clara, CA: A $39 million settlement has been agreed between class members and The United Services Automobile Association in a bad faith insurance lawsuit alleging the insurer breached the terms of auto insurance policies by failing to fully pay members for sales tax in the purchase of a comparable vehicle after their vehicles were written off... - Unum Group Appears as Innocent Bystander in Insurance Denial Lawsuit
Oct-13-17 Allentown, PA: Unum Group is not isolated from incurring the wrath of policyholders having been denied what are thought to be legitimate claims. The insurance industry as a whole tends to view claims as nuisance, or false claims unless proven otherwise and either deny claims outright or simply stop benefits, allegedly without cause. Lawsuits alleging b... - Long-Suffering Homeowners Hoping to Pursue Home Warranty Lawsuit
Oct-8-17 Wilmington, DE: It’s been a long wait for prospective plaintiffs with home defect issues dating back to as far back as 1999. With a formal request Wednesday to a Delaware bankruptcy court to lift a litigation stay in a long-running Chapter 7 bankruptcy involving builder WL Homes LLC (WL), the plaintiffs hope to launch a home warranty lawsuit and... - Heatlthcare Fraud and Healthcare Whistleblower News and Information
Employees of healthcare companies who have evidence of healthcare fraud may receive a portion of the money collected in a lawsuit if they come forward as a healthcare whistleblower to uncover illegal activities. Among illegal activities that could be reported are attempts to defraud the government , performing surgeries that are unnecessary, using medic... - Insurer May Renew Defense in Tangled ESOP Lawsuit
Apr-2-21 Detroit, MI On March 4, The District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan held that Great American Fidelity Insurance Co. (Great American) could renew its argument that it should not be required to defend Stout Risius Ross (Stout) against a claim by Appvion Retirement Savings and Employee Stock Ownership Plan (Appvion ESOP). Great American Fidelity...