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May-2-09 Seattle, WA: Tracy suffers from fibromyalgia—a chronic disorder that includes debilitating fatigue, sleep disturbance, joint stiffness and many more symptoms. But Unum sees fibromyalgia syndrome as a "non disease", possibly due to a lack of objective laboratory tests or medical imaging studies to confirm the diagnosis. But for Tracy and many others, it... - Consumer Fraud Scams: What's Old Is New Again
Apr-13-09 Nashville, TN The scam is as old as time itself and consumer fraud is growing with the development of new ways to lead the consumer down the garden path. Little wonder that the Consumer Protection Act has become a dog-eared reference for all kinds of scams that attempt to do an end run around fair play and consumer protection. And while the Internet... - Unum Loses Bad Faith Lawsuit in Court
Apr-1-09 New York, NY In yet another Unum life insurance bad faith case, a man who suffers from advanced colon cancer has had his day in court after launching a lawsuit against Unum Provident for denial of claims according to the provisions of his Unum long-term disability policy. First Unum—formerly Unum Provident, has had a long history of allegedly delayi... - Nursing Home Abuse Continues to be a Scourge
Mar-30-09 Carthage, NC No nursing home abuse article would be complete on a day such as today without a passing reference to the tragic shooting yesterday of more than a dozen people at the Pinelake Health and Rehab nursing home in Carthage, North Carolina. The motive of the shooter, who survived, has yet to be determined. However, 7 residents—mostly in thei... - ERISA Laws Protect Employee Stock Options
Mar-21-09 Columbus, OH If you, like so many other people, have been watching the value of your employee retirement plan or your employee stock options plan, drop, you may be wondering if there is anything you can do. The good news is that there is something you can do. In fact, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) was designed to protect you and your... - Policy Holder Living in her Car Blames Unum
Mar-19-09 Gainsville, FA: According to Kimyetta, the Unum health insurance company only uses certain medical information, leaving out pertinent doctor reports, in order for them to deny a claim. "Several doctors have told Unum Provident that I can't return to work but whenever the insurer gets information that supports my claim, they use it against me," says Kim... - Unum Leaves Policy Holders High and Dry
Mar-15-09 Seattle, WA Even though Unum Provident promised to clean up its bad faith practices act a few years ago and reassess about 200,000 denied disability claims (ordered by the Department of Labor), it apparently still employs tactics to deny policy holders. For some people, Unum's tag line, "We can protect your income and help to preserve the lifestyle of yo... - SAIC, Inc. SAI Securities Fraud
Company: SAIC, Inc. Ticker Symbol: SAI Class Period: Apr-11-07 to Sep-1-11 Date Filed: Feb-22-12 Lead Plaintiff Deadline: Apr-22-12 Court: Southern District of New York Allegations: New York, NY: A securities class action lawsuit has been commenced on behalf of an institutional invest... - Facebook Faces Privacy Violations Class Action
Baltimore, MD: Facebook, Inc., the social networking website with more than 800 million users worldwide, unlawfully tracked the internet activities of its users, according to allegations in an internet lawsuit filed on February 17. According to the lawsuit, Facebook ignored repeated inquiries from an internet technology and security blogger who... - Unum Can't Translate its own Policies
Mar-7-09 San Francisco, CA: Richard bought an Unum health insurance policy back in the 1980s, which included Unum long term disability, and he never missed a payment. The Unum (also known as Unum Provident) policy Richard bought insured that he could receive benefits if he was unable to work in his specific profession—something akin to a ballerina taking out an... - Psychiatric Drugging of Children Intolerable--Part 2
Mar-2-09 Washington, DC December 13, 2006 was a major turning point in the Psychiatric Drugging of Children ; it will probably go down in history as the day the nation awoke to the unthinkable truth that children as young as toddlers were being labeled mentally ill and drugged for profit. On that day, a little 4-year-old girl named Rebecca Riley died of an ov... - Plane Crash Kills Three in Louisiana
Mar-1-09 Livingston, LA A small plane with three people on board crashed into a wooded area late Friday night in eastern Louisiana. Rescue workers reportedly had a hard time getting to the plane crash site and were disappointed when their hope for a search and rescue became instead a search and recovery. No one in the small plane survived. The victims were... - An Emerging Form of Nursing Home Abuse
Feb-27-09 St. Paul, MN For years the headlines have been rife with screaming misdeeds committed against the innocent residents of nursing homes—from staff grossly neglecting residents to actual cases of physical and verbal assault. But nursing home abuse can take many forms and nursing home neglect need not be sinister. Rather, a case for nursing home negligence... - Lawsuit Alleges GSK Bullied Avandia Critic
Feb-17-09 Beaumont, TX The question many people are asking as another lawsuit is filed against GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) regarding Avandia is, how much did GSK know about the risks associated with its drug? As reports of liver failure, heart attacks and bone fractures increase, so too do the calls for an Avandia recall. Recent allegations from a court case, as sit... - Symantec Faces Class Action Lawsuit
San Jose, CA: A consumer fraud lawsuit has been filed against Symantec Corp alleging the software manufacturer attempts to convince consumers to buy its products by providing misleading information about the functionallity of their computers. Filed by James Gross, of Washington state, the lawsuit claims that Symantec distributes trial versions of... - Seniors Duped in Financial Elder Abuse Scams
Jan-17-09 San Diego, CA Next to child abuse, elder abuse is right up there with behaviors that turn the stomach—whether that abuse is physical, emotional of financial elder abuse . Financial abuse, especially against seniors who are in the twilight of their lives and long beyond their capacity to earn a living, leaves a bitter taste. Thankfully, financial elder a... - Unum Provident Still in Denial
Dec-29-08 Boise, ID Diane paid into an Unum Provident policy through her employer for more than a decade, so when she was injured on the job and collected Workers Compensation benefits for a few months, she assumed that Unum Provident's health insurance would kick in and pay her long term disability benefits. Wrong. "When they denied me, it made me so depresse... - At AARP, Things Are Not As They Seem
Dec-23-08 Washington, DC Seniors are discovering that AARP insurance leaves a lot to be desired, with regard to limitations that may leave AARP health insurance clients with the need to pay thousands for medical procedures they mistakenly thought to be completely covered. The policies, underwritten by UnitedHealth Group insurance, carry the AARP endorsement. T... - Virtual At-Home Call Center Employees File Class Action Lawsuit against Apple
Santa Clara, CA: On December 8, 2011, an employment class action lawsuit was filed against Apple alleging that Apple devised an illegal scheme of classifying at-home call center employees as independent contractors in order to avoid paying Apple's share of payroll taxes and other business related expenses through the use of a Yellow Dog Contract. ... - HP Faces Class Action over Alleged Printer Software Design Defect
San Francisco, CA: On December 1, 2011 a defective products class action lawsuit was filed in United States District Court Northern District of California against Hewlett-Packard Company ("HP"), on behalf of anyone who purchased a Hewlett Packard Printer. The lawsuit alleges violations of The California Consumer Legal Remedies Act for Injunctive Relie...