In lawsuits brought by policyholders whose claims have been denied or underpaid, and in response to data calls from insurance regulators across the country, insurers chronically withhold important evidentiary documents, asserting conclusory and blanket objections that they are “trade secrets,” “privileged” or “confidential.”   Today an Oklahoma Court issued an historic ruling rejecting those sweeping claims in a high profile case involving cookie cutter denials of wind, hail and roof damage claims.

Let’s hope the sunshine today’s court order brings to the nation’s leading property insurer will be medicine that counteracts the “how to make claims a profit center” playbooks that have led State Farm and other insurers down the wrong path and contributed to the prevailing view among a majority of Americans that they can’t be trusted to be fair. Order – De-Designation of Documents.

See Part 1 at:  https://uphelp.org/the-good-neighbor-is-in-the-dog-house/