Delay, Deny, Defend Part 2: A Fair Payment for Your Injuries
The large insurance companies deliberately “delay, deny and defend” against your honest claim until you give up and take less than fair value on your injury case. What can you do to get a fair payment for your injuries? In our earlier blog, we offered advice on how to obtain fair compensation from a major insurance company after being injured in crash. Here’s more:
State Farm Settles After Jury Rules Against It in Another Katrina Lawsuit
How Do You Deal with the "Delay, Deny and Defend" Strategy of the Big Insurance Companies?
Delay, Deny, Defend - Why You Case Has Not Settled
It’s been more than 2 years and despite the fact that the person that hit you admits it, the insurance company will not settle the claim for a fair amount. Former insurance claim representatives say that the large insurers have a strategy designed to keep you from getting fair compensation. Their battle plan is to:
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It Got a Spanking from the Court ---- Now State Farm Refuses to Write New Policies in Miss.
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State Farm Settlement on Katrina Claims? We'll See!
In a settlement that may help Mississippi homeowners whose homes were ravaged by the winds of Hurricane Katrina, State Farm Insurance has “agreed” to pay some disputed “wind v. water” claims.
State Farm agreed to pay at least 50% of damages to 1,000 homeowners whose property was totally destroyed --- “stripped to the slab” as it is called in insurance parlance. Any of the remaining 35,000 homeowners can “re-argue” their cases to State Farm about the extent of wind damage. The settlement could end up costing State Farm as much as $500 million, the Mississippi attorney general said this week.
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Some Say Katrina Failures Must be Exposed
Insurance Companies More Likely to Settle Katrina Claims Now That Democrats in Charge of Congress?
New Hope for Katrina Insurance Victims
Hurricane Katrina victims may have reason to hope for a Happy New Year.
A federal judge's ruling in a Katrina insurance dispute on the Mississippi Gulf Coast could bode well for insurers in the “wind vs. wave” legal battles over who pays for storm damages.
U.S. District Judge L.T. Senter Jr. ruled Thursday that State Farm Fire Insurance Co. owes a Biloxi couple $223,292 for their Katrina-demolished home and its contents, ruling that even though their policy excluded flood damage, the company did not prove during trial that the entire loss was caused by flood.
Senter then allowed a jury to deliberate punitive damages. Their verdict: $2.5 million.
The verdict could benefit hundreds of other homeowners challenging insurers for refusing to cover billions of dollars in storm damage.
Hurricane Katrina Water Damage Claims Still May Be Paid
Victims of Hurricane Katrina may be a step closer to receiving justice in forcing reluctant insurance companies to pay adequate money for their claims.
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Aetna is Sued for Refusing to Cover the Costs of Anorexia
The New York Times has reported that a couple has sued Aetna Insurance Co. on wednesday claiming that it refused to cover fully their daughter's treatment for anorexia. Cliff and Maria DeAnna of Mountainside, N.J., the parents of the sick young woman, said Aetna refused to pay for nearly 10 weeks of their daughter's inpatient treatment, saying her eating disorder was not "biologically based."
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