Farmers Insurance is at it again! Yep, good old Farmers. Farmers, apparently, “Gets you back where you belong.” Well, maybe it should be “Gets in you the back all along.” (Hmmm….anyone see a future career writing jingles? I have a…
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Adjusters and their new (old) tactic
Amazing new tactic from the insurance industry. Okay, it is not new, but it was dead for a while. So, amazing revival tactic from the insurance industry: talking you out of an attorney. Here is how it works. You are…
Interesting Results
For those of you who do not know, I have the ability to look at statistics on this blog. I can see the number of visitors and what they are looking at. The number of visitors is a bit of…
Lawsuit tales are frauds!
Yep, that email you get about the Stella Awards: it is a fraud! None of those stories happened. Honest. Don’t take my word for it. Rick Casey at the Houston Chronicle did an article on it recently. He also debunked…
Flimsy Bumpers Cause Damage
A report from the LA Times is fascinating to me. Flimsy bumpers on cars are causing an awful lot of damage in 3mph accidents. Apparently, design issues are part of the problem. The Insurance Insitute for Highway Safety, an auto…
Health Insurers latching on
Interesting story out of Minnesota. Tom Cary lost his wife to medical malpractice. His health insurance paid for her treatment. He filed a lawsuit against the negligent doctor. The health insurer, instead of pooling its resources with Tom to fight…
Allstate bullied people?
I know. This is surprising. A former manager at Allstate testified in a trial in Kentucky that Allstate bullied people into taking low ball settlement offers. A summary: A former casualty manager for Allstate Insurance Co. testified last Thursday that…
State Farm Can’t Use Database
A Colorado Court of Appeal has ruled that State Farm cannot exclusively use a computer database to determine reimbursement of medical bills. In the case, State Farm unilaterally reduced the medical bills because its database said the charges were higher…
Med Pay Insurance
Medical payments insurance, commonly called med pay, is under closer scrutiny these days. Why? Because insurers want you to reimburse them when you collect damages from the third party. Of course, you do not want to pay them back. The…
10 Things Insurers Can Do To Keep Customers
I have recently had two clients pull their insurance from their insurer and place it with a different company. Both clients were very dissatisfied with the service they received for the payment of their cars and their medical bills. (Both…