Posts tagged insurance

• Insurers Try to Deny Insurance Claims in Federal Court

  Jane Schneider | October 26, 2007 12:16 AM | 0 CommentsAnchorage, AK Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Allstate, Progressive, and other carriers are often quick to take coverage disputes to Federal Court. The carriers bring a "declaratory judgment" action against their own policy holders, and sometimes sue the party that may have been seriously injured or killed by their policy holder. The insurers try to get the Federal Court to side with them. Carriers take such steps even though they know...

• 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...