Posts tagged claims

• North Carolina Adjuster Accused of Taking Claimant's Insurance Claims Payment

  Pierce Egerton | July 12, 2009 5:57 PM | 0 CommentsGreensboro, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The North Carolina Department of Insurance recently announced the arrest last month of Ashley C. Waddell, 39, 4610 Wending Lane, Greensboro. According to the investigation, Waddell, who owned...

• Uninsured Motorists Down in South Carolina

  Shannon Weidemann | January 10, 2008 9:44 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  The number of uninsured drivers in the state of South Carolina appears to be dropping thanks to new laws enacted in 2002. Analysis of data from car accidents shows that the percentage of illegal drivers dropped from 18 in 2003 to 9 in 2006. But even cutting our uninsured motorists rate in half would only bring us down to the national average. And uninsured motorists cost us all. Not only do...

• Pedestrian Hit by Semi-Truck in Nevada

  Shannon Weidemann | October 08, 2007 3:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A pedestrian was killed in Nevada after being hit by a semi-truck. The trucking accident happened on Friday evening on Highway 395. The victim was a 41-year-old woman. According to the Nevada Highway Patrol, she was walking on Pine Valley Road about 5:30 p.m. when she ran toward a Schneider Trucking Freightliner.The woman was thrown underneath the rear tires and crushed to death. It is...

• Dump Truck Accident Kills North Port Man

  Shannon Weidemann | September 11, 2007 11:18 AM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A dump truck accident near the Lee-Charlotte County line on US 41 has left a man from North Port dead. The 81-year-old victim was driving his pickup truck southbound on US 41. The dump truck pulled out onto US 41 in front of him. The pickup truck slammed into the back of the dump truck at 55 mph. Troopers shut down the highway while they investigated the accident. It happened just before...

• Two Years Later, Katrina Victims Wait for Insurance

  Gary Shipman | September 06, 2007 3:46 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A report released last week by the American Association of Justice shows that two years after Hurricane Katrina, insurance companies continue to engage in unfair conduct deliberately designed to avoid and delay the payment of legitimate claims. The comprehensive report shows that the insurance companies who have denied hurricane related casualty claims have, during the preceding two years,...

• Huntersville Truck Accident Injures 2 People

  Shannon Weidemann | August 21, 2007 3:43 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A car driving on Interstate 77 in Huntersville drove underneath a semi-truck. Two people were trapped inside the car. The truck accident happened this morning near the exit to Gilead Road. Two people were pulled out of the mangled vehicle. A medical helicopter landed just south of the accident and transported one patient to the hospital around 11:30 a.m. Medic originally called for a second...

• Hickory Trucking Accident Injures Man

  Shannon Weidemann | August 06, 2007 8:49 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck driver was pinned between a truck and a guardrail at the Institution Food House in Hickory on Monday. The trucking accident sent the man to the Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte for treatment. He was airlifted to the hospital. The accident happened at about 5:50 a.m. in the parking lot of Institution Food House, on 12th Street Drive N.W. off U.S. 321. Early on weekday mornings,...

• Bad Faith Insurance Claims

  Matt Buckmiller | July 30, 2007 9:29 PM | 0 CommentsWilmington, NC Category: Miscellaneous
  

  One Fourth Of Americans Have Had Valid Health Insurance Claims Denied. While theinsurance company in John Grisham's book "The Rainmaker" is fictitious it is indicative of the way billions of consumers are treated when dealing with their insurance company. In the book, an insured 20-something year old, Donny Eay, is dying of leukemia. A bone marrow transplant would have cured Donny Ray...

• Tanker Truck Overturns in Charlotte

  Shannon Weidemann | July 19, 2007 4:24 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A tanker truck carrying nitric acid overturned in Charlotte Tuesday morning. The trucking accident happened on University City Boulevard at Interstate 485. Charlotte firefighters said the truck overturned on University City Boulevard after getting off of Interstate 485.An off-duty Charlotte firefighter pulled the driver out to safety, and he was not badly hurt. The truck landed on its side...

• Truck Spills Coal in West Virginia

  Shannon Weidemann | June 27, 2007 4:08 PM | 0 CommentsCharlotte, NC Category: Tractor-Trailer Accidents
  

  A truck driver claims the brakes on his coal hauler failed causing an accident that left coal over the road and hillside. The trucking accident happened in Wellsburg on Mechling Hill Road. Rob McMahon, Brooke County director of emergency services, told the Brooke County Commission Tuesday part of the truck's load fell from the road and along the hillside above a reservoir many feet...