Pleasant Law Blog (Insurance Claims, Medical Misakes, and Nursing Home Claims)

Buying Disability Insurance Article May Help Avoid Problems With Unfair Disability Insurance Claim Denials

Wrongful denial of disability insurance benefits, including long term disability benefits from companies like UNUM Insurance, Provident Insurance, CIGNA Insurance, The Hartford Insurance, John Hancock Insurance and others: this article could help you avoid unfair insurance claims practices by insurance companies.

Unum Insurance, Provident Life Insurance, Paul Revere Insurance - Regulatory Settlement Details, etc.

Unum insurance / Unum provident insurance regulatory settlement for its questionable insurance claim practices and activities

McKinsey Insurance Claims Documents: Allstate Insurance's "Zero Sum" game?

Allstate Insurance Company McKinsey documents regarding Allstate's alleged bad faith and unfair insurance claims practices (where an insurance company wrongfully denies a claim)

Unum Provident Defrauded the Government, Jury Finds

By North Carolina Insurance lawyer Thomas Pleasant. Here's a different twist on insurance company misconduct: Unum Provident was just found to have threatened its policyholders into filing for government disability benefits. Unum, the largest disability insurance company in the United States, evidently threatened to cut benefits if certain disability insurance policyholders refused to seek these government disability benefits. The article can be read at http://www.examiner.com/p-248458~Jury_Finds_Insurance_Giant_Unum_Defrauded_the_U_S_.html. This is a twist on traditiona unfair insurance claims practices, or insurance bad faith, but it's unfair and bad nonetheless. For more information on insurance bad faith, go to http://www.pleasantlaw.com/practice_areas/insurance-unfair-insurance-claim-practices.cfm. Contact me, a North Carolina insurance attorney, at www.PleasantLaw.com.

Court Confirms Serious Disability Insurance Unfair Claims Practices of Unum and Paul Revere

By North Carolina Insurance Claim Attorney Thomas W. Pleasant. Clinton Merrick sued Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, Unumprovident Corporation (doing business as Unum Life Insurance Company of America and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company) over disability insurance benefits. The case has a long history, but recently came to fruition through a United States District Court decision (in NV), whereby the judge affirmed a recent verdict in favor of Mr. Merrick, and apparently actually increased the verdict to the constitutional 9:1 ratio (between compensatory and punitive damages), up to a total of $26,394,765. The case was handled by Friedman Rubin & White, excellent insurance lawyers who handle insurance bad faith and unfair claims practices cases accross the country. I have had the pleasure of working with these folks, and can attest to their skill. If you have had trouble with Unum or any other insurance company (whether for a disability insurance claim, a homeowner or fire insurance claim, or any other kind of insurance claim), and you think the insurance company has acted unfairly, contact my office for a free case review. I will consider cases in any area of North Carolina, and we will do our best to make the process easy for you (coming to you if necessary). We also have offices in Raleigh, Fayetteville, and Wilmington North Carolina. Call Toll Free 888.435.7156. For more information on insurance unfair claims practices, see my resources page on my website at http://www.pleasantlaw.com/resources.cfm.