March 23, 2011 Accidental Death Becomes Suicide When Insurers Dodge Payouts Jane Pierce spent nine years struggling alongside her husband, Todd, as he fought cancer in his sinus cavity. The treatments were working. Then, in July 2009, Todd died in a fiery car crash. He was 46. That was the beginning of a whole new battle…
March 23, 2011 New Zealand earthquake preparedness: Authorities battled complacency Wellington, New Zealand New Zealanders have received a violent wake-up call: It’s past time to be prepared for the “Big One” – the long-feared major earthquake authorities have been warning about for years.As this small island nation picks up the pieces from the 6.3-magnitude earthquake…
February 21, 2011 A Health Insurance Insider Offers Words of Advice WENDELL POTTER is a 20-year health insurance veteran who served in top public relations jobs at such firms as Cigna and Humana. Now a senior analyst at the Center for Public Integrity, Mr. Potter has written “Deadly Spin,” a tell-all about practices of the health…
February 20, 2011 Forged MetLife ‘Checks’ Show Retained-Asset Account Risks After her mother died, Jasmine Williams was assured by MetLife Inc. that her $101,819 in life insurance benefits were safe and was sent what the company called a guaranteed money market “checkbook” in 2002. The next year, Williams, then 19, told New York-based MetLife that…
January 25, 2011 Questions and Answers on Enrollment of Children Under 19 Under the New Policy that Prohibits Pre-Existing Condition Exclusions
January 5, 2011 Insurers’ Black Box: Now-Secret Claims Denial Rates Could Tell Consumers a Lot About Their Insurance Company
August 11, 2010 California Insurance Companies Who Submitted Responses to 2009 Climate Risk Disclosure Survey
June 24, 2010 The battle of the ages still rages: Should McCarran-Ferguson be scrapped in favor of an optional federal charter?