Posts tagged bad

• Health Insurance Companies Fight to Keep Rescission Alive

  Spangenberg Shibley & Liber | April 30, 2010 11:53 AM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Imagine that you have been diagnosed with a life-threatening illness, one that will require lengthy and expensive medical treatment. The concerns and worries you might have are obvious and likely...

• Insurer Ordered to Pay $10,000,000.00 for Bad Faith Termination of Health Insurance Policy

  Nick DiCello | October 14, 2009 11:15 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  On September 14, 2009, the South Carolina Supreme Court upheld a jury verdict against Fortis Insurance Company, now known as Assurant Health or Time Insurance Company, for wrongfully terminating...

• Insurance Companies Will Be There? For whom?

  Brett Goodson | June 28, 2009 10:17 PM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  It was impossible to turn on the radio, a television or go online this weekend and not see the news. Michael Jackson, the king of pop himself, died at the age of 50. The headlines were everywhere,...

• Report Lists Top Ten Worst Insurance Companies

  Nick DiCello | July 18, 2008 4:57 PM | 1 CommentCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  And the winner is... Allstate Insurance Company! Congratulations to Allstate for topping the list of the worst insurance companies in the United States. According to a recent report published by...

• Allstate Named as Worst Insurance Company in the U.S.

  Alison De Villiers | July 14, 2008 3:48 PM | 1 CommentCincinnati, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A recent study named Allstate as the worst insurance company in America. It attributes Allstates worst of the worst status to their shareholder over policyholder attitude. Other insurance companies...

• Ohio Prohibits Insurers from Denying Claims and Cancelling Coverage Unless They Clearly Prove Fraud By The Insured

  Nick DiCello | April 14, 2008 11:04 AM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Every day Ohioans join the ranks of the uninsured and are denied health insurance benefits because carriers allege they misrepresented their health histories on insurance applications. Indeed, many...

• Auto Insurance Carrier Treating Insureds Unfairly in Ohio

  Stephanie Day | March 12, 2008 10:18 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Imagine being involved in an auto collision caused by an uninsured driver. Naturally, you would look to your auto insurance carrier to cover your injuries via your uninsured motorist coverage and medical payment (med-pay) or personal injury protection (PIP) benefits for which you've been paying premiums. Assume amongst promises of good claims handling, you go unrepresented by an attorney and...

• Grange Insurance Company May Settle Bad Faith Class Action Suit Relating to Use of Colossus

  Alison De Villiers | March 10, 2008 11:31 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Grange Insurance Company has proposed a nationwide bad faith class action settlement for Grange insureds who submitted UM/UIM bodily injury claims, pursuant to Grange auto policies between January 1, 1999 and December 12, 2007. Those affected must submit claims for consideration by April 3, 2008. The lawsuit against Grange alleges that Grange underpaid people for UM/UIM bodily injury claims...

• Requested Allstate Files Could Show Bad Faith

  Chrissie Cole | January 25, 2008 1:14 AM | 0 CommentsCincinnati, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  Secret Allstate documents - coined the "McKinsey documents" - allegedly show how the company has intentionally made low-ball claim offers to its customers for years, netting Allstate billions of dollars. But the McKinsey documents have yet to be seen. These documents could be potentially devastating to them in insurance bad faith litigation.Trial lawyers who have previously sued Allstate have...

• State of Florida Suspends Allstate's Insurance License

  Staff Writer | January 23, 2008 6:05 PM | 0 CommentsCleveland, OH Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The state of Florida is in a big fight with Allstate right now, and Allstate is not cooperating, refusing to turn over subpoena ordered internal documents (particularly something known as "The McKinsey Report") which demonstrates a systematic denial of claims - read the story of Allstate's potential bad faith actions in Florida.