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Fighting a Bad Faith Insurance Company
Many insurance companies do not treat claims made against their insured as the law requires. By doing everything possible to avoid paying legitimate claims the company puts its customers at risk. It’s called acting in bad faith.
Under the law, every contract of insurance carries the requirement that both the insured and the insurance company act in good faith to fulfill their responsibilities.
Although acting in bad faith is clearly illegal, the practice is not uncommon.
Our law firm cannot transform the employees of fad faith insurance companies into ethical human beings, but we can fight for your rights. (more…)
Posted on: August 2, 2010 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death, Product Liability / Defective Products No Comments
Bad Faith Insurance Practices Reported by CNN
Simply refuse to pay the bills that you legally and morally owe, and keep all the money for yourself. That’s a very profitable business for any company or industry that can get away with it. A company that can use that strategy and stay in business is sure to increase its profits dramatically, and that’s exactly what some of the biggest insurance companies in the country have been doing since the mid 1990s. (more…)
Posted on: April 15, 2010 Posted in: Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith No Comments
Tort Reform = Corporate Welfare
Advocates of tort reform make spectacular and deceitful claims about the benefits of tort reform. They claim that capping the awards that victims of personal injuries can receive will revive the economy, lower insurance costs, and prevent people who suffer catastrophic damages such as trauma to the brain or spine, and severe electrical burns, from hitting some sort of lawsuit jackpot. (more…)
Posted on: February 18, 2010 Posted in: Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith No Comments
Protect Yourself Against Personal Injury By Uninsured Drivers
In California, nearly 1 in 4 drivers are uninsured, even though California law clearly requires all drivers to have proper coverage.
More than 3 million California drivers have no insurance. To reduce that number, a state initiative called the California Low Cost Automobile Program began in 2006. The program’s intent is to make minimal insurance [$10,000 per person/$20,000 maximum per accident] available to every driver in the state. (more…)
Posted on: November 21, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death 4 Comments
Traumatic Brain Injuries – Critical Information from a Brain Injury Lawyer
Selecting the right traumatic brain injury lawyer is the cornerstone of a successful claim.
Anyone can advertise their services on television or in the yellow pages. The right brain injury attorneys are lawyers and a law firm with
- a proven and consistent track record as brain injury lawyers
- winning substantial results for survivors of brain injury
- the financial strength to devote the resources of time and money to achieve a result that will last as long as a permanent brain injury
- a reputation for excellence as brain injury attorneys that is recognized by attorneys and the community.
Posted on: November 6, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Accident Attorneys and Insurance Specialists
Accidents by definition are not foreseen or intended.
Whenever it is reasonably foreseeable that an act, or the failure to act, would cause serious injuries, permanent physical impairment or even death, it is no accident. That is negligence under accident law or, more correctly, tort law. (more…)
Posted on: November 3, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Avoid Binding Mandatory Arbitration
Whenever you sign a contract, you may be signing away your right to take legal action against the company requiring the agreement.
In the fine print, many companies, gyms, HMOs, insurance companies, credit card companies, and contractors give themselves virtual immunity against punishment for their wrongdoings with a clause that provides that the consumer agrees to settle any dispute through a process called Binding Mandatory Arbitration (BMA). (more…)
Posted on: October 23, 2009 Posted in: Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Suing an Insurance Company for Bad Faith: Assignment of Breach of the Covenant of Good Faith and Fair Dealing
The full details of the injuries suffered by 12 year-old Rasheed Hilson, the trial and the $10.1 million final judgment, after Amica Mutual Insurance failed to settle for its $50,000 policy before trial, have been previously reported. (more…)
Posted on: September 21, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Prepare For Trial in Personal Injury and Wrongful Death Cases to Get What You Deserve
Many of our clients tell us that they need an early settlement for their personal injury or even for the wrongful death of a loved one. Others say that they want to get the best possible settlement without going to trial. (more…)
Posted on: August 17, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
Deception, Deceit, Denial Of Insurance Claims: Aftermath of Personal Injuries and Wrongful Deaths
Allstate has spent millions, probably billions of dollars, to craft its image of being the “Good Hands People”. Allstate has also spent millions to learn how to increase its profits by simply refusing to pay legitimate claims or by drastically underpaying claims.
To learn this new way of doing business, Allstate hired consulting firm McKinsey & Company, and the lessons that McKinsey taught Allstate are described in the McKinsey Documents. These papers are so harmful to Allstate’s warm and fuzzy image that the company claimed that they contained trade secrets and refused to disclose them for a long time. As a result, Allstate incurred millions in fines and left people wondering what the company was really, but that Allstate just happens to know a company that will insure the risky customer. The letter doesn’t say that the other company is affiliated with Allstate, and the new policy turns out to be much more expensive than the original. (more…)
Posted on: June 15, 2009 Posted in: Car / Truck / Motorcycle / SUV Accidents, Insurance Fraud / Bad Faith, Personal Injury / Wrongful Death No Comments
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