- Pete Burns | August 02, 2009 3:38 PM | Mobile, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
Post hoc underwriting is the process the medical insurance companies use to cancel a customer’s policy after the customer develops a serious illness. If the individual develops a condition...
- Pete Burns | April 07, 2009 2:28 PM | Mobile, AL
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Medical Malpractice
The policy limits demand is a powerful tool for the plaintiff and should be taken seriously by the insured defendant. The plaintiff is saying that she will settle her case for a specific sum or the...
- Eric Artrip | July 25, 2008 3:41 PM | Huntsville, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
Insurance companies often put profits ahead of their customers.
- Jon Lewis | May 25, 2008 5:30 PM | Birmingham, AL
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Automobile Accidents
Over the years, we have received calls from several people who have had a collision with a deer or other animal. In many of those occasions, we have had to tell the individual that there is not much...
- Tedford Taylor | September 13, 2007 4:29 PM | Birmingham, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
The insurance industry's drive for profit has overwhelmed its obligation to policyholders, and insurance companies abide only by the first commandment of insurance--Thou shalt pay as little and as late as possible.Tension between insurers and their customers has long existed, but it was the 1990s that saw insurance companies looking for ways to systematically streamline the process to increase...
- Tedford Taylor | May 01, 2007 10:19 AM | Huntsville, AL
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Miscellaneous
Mississippi Senator, and former majority leader, Trent Lott settled his lawsuit against State Farm for their refusal to cover Hurricane Katrina damage to his beach home. Lott, whose case was scheduled to be tried in September, has acknowledged in recent months that he was weighing settlement, but has never ruled out the possibility of trial. State Farm agreed in Jaunuary to pay $80 million to...
- Christina Cole | March 18, 2007 1:06 AM | Birmingham, AL
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Miscellaneous
A Federal Jury awarded a man $10 million in a ruling that decided his employer's insurance carrier acted in bad faith when they denied his claim for benefits from a 1999 back injury.The jury is still deciding whether to also award the man with additional compensation for punitive damages.Court records show the worker was a computer technician at Norwest Financial when he injured his back while...
- Christina Cole | March 12, 2007 11:55 PM | Huntsville, AL
Category:
Miscellaneous
A neighbor witnessed Edward Gemmill's his roof blow away right before the water started to poor through his own home when Hurricane Katrina hit, a structural engineer testified.The engineer testified on Gemmill's behalf on the first day of trial in the civil case of Gemmill vs. State Farm Fire and Casualty Company. Gemmill, alleges State Farm refused to honor his homeowner's policy because the...