Posts tagged insurance

• 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...

• Embezzlement Leads to Charges and Claims

  Jane Schneider | December 17, 2007 12:51 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Federal prosecutors have charged Bernadine Dee Sponaugle, 49, of Anchorage with embezzling funds from her employer, Geneva Woods Clinic. But that will do the victim no good unless there is the right kind of insurance coverage in place to pay for the loss. The right coverage and a good attorney familiar with insurance law is usually the only way to recover from such a theft. Employers should...

• 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...

• I Was Hurt In An Accident...Who Pays My Medical Bills?

  James Cool | April 09, 2009 3:04 AM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  If you were hurt in an accident, get immediate medical care. Do not delay receiving medical care until your insurance claim is settled. In fact, many insurance companies will ask that you...

• 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,...

• Woman Ejected From Car Has Claims Against Driver

  Mike Schneider | June 09, 2009 1:06 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Kenneth Christenson, 51, was unhappy with his girlfriend and passenger. He forced her out of the moving vehicle at about mile 133 of the Parks Highway, drug her for some distance, and beat her,...

• What to Say...and Not Say...After an Accident

  James Cool | April 15, 2009 1:12 PM | 0 CommentsFairbanks, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  An accident, even one in which you aren’t severely injured, can be a shocking experience. Accidents can leave your heart racing and your hands shaking. And often, while you are in this state,...

• Crime Victims Have a Chance to Get Their Losses Back

  Mike Schneider | April 12, 2009 7:30 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Violence is easily found in most editions of the local paper. But the criminal justice system rarely does much to take care of the wage losses, medical bills, and other harms and losses that crime...

• Recent Shooting Could Lead to Civil Claims

  Mike Schneider | April 05, 2009 10:31 PM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Wrongful Death
  

  March 15, 2009, a party at a warehouse in South Anchorage went bad. Chad Zurfluh tried to break up a fight, was assaulted himself, and thrown out of the warehouse where the party was going on....

• Wrongful Death and Serious Injury Claims Likely Follow Parks Highway Crash

  Mike Schneider | October 26, 2008 12:22 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  A 15 year old driver, with three teenage passengers on board, crossed the center line at mile 51 of the Parks Highway around 4:10 p.m. on September 20, 2008. The young driver of the Chevrolet...