Posts tagged claim

• The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007

  Mike Schneider | July 16, 2007 12:18 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Arbitration Fairness Act of 2007 would keep companies from making consumers give up their right to a trial by jury by forcing mandatory binding arbitration. Many consumer contracts, like are offered on a take-it-or-leave-it basis by EBay, lending institutions, brokerage firms, car dealerships, and health care providers take away your rights in the fine print. Consumers should support this...

• Inusrance Claim Denied for Excluded Driver

  Mike Schneider | July 02, 2007 12:05 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Be careful, or your liability coverage won't help you if the seriously or fataly injured bring suit against you and you have "exluded" the driver of your vehicle from coverage. So held the Alaska Supreme Court June 29, 2007. Seriously injured Nelson sued the inured parents for negligent entrustment of their car to their son, who hit Nelson.Because parents had excluded son from their policy,...

• Law a Giveaway to Insurers and Careless Landowners

  Mike Schneider | June 27, 2007 12:52 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Representative Paul Seaton, of Homer, Ak has proposed a law, HB25, which will immunize landowners, largely to the benefit of the insurance industry, from suits brought by Alaskans seriously injured or killed because of landowner carelessness. Rep. Seaton is trying to do the right thing for public recreation, but unless huge loopholes in the bill are closed, the public policy "baby" will be...

• Uninsured/Underinsured Motorist Coverage Decision

  Mike Schneider | June 20, 2007 12:56 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The Ak Supreme Court recently ruled that insurance companies can sell you less uninsured or underinsured motorist coverage to protect your family from serious injury or death, than you buy to protect others from your own negligence...and they can do so without your written OK.AS 21.89.020 demands that a carrier providing Uninsured or Underinsured (UM or UIM) coverage get your written OK if the...

• State Farm Sued for Denial of Insurance Claim

  Christina Cole | April 30, 2007 10:23 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Several lawsuits for denied insurance claims have surfaced against State Farm following Hurricane Wilma. On April 24, one of those suits went to trial.A Beaumont couple claims State Farm has denied their insurance claim refusing to pay the full amount of property damage suffered from Hurricane Wilma.According to the petition filed in Jefferson County District Court, the storm caused roof and...