Thomas Pleasant helps people who are being victimized by insurance companies. If you are facing obstacles in getting your insurer to pay a legitimate claim or if your claim has already been denied, Thomas can help you. His areas of special expertise include insurance bad faith cases, long-term disability claims, and property damage and losses as well as personal injury and product liability cases, and situations in which people are being treated unfairly by their employers and as consumers. Thomas represents clients in the Southeast and Mid regions of North Carolina. If you need legal help, contact Thomas today for a free consultation. www.pleasantlaw.com

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  • Insurers Increase Profits to Record Levels by Overpricing Policies and Shifting Costs to Consumers and Taxpayers (Report & Press Release from Consumer Federation of America) [PDF]   
    Description: Consumer Federation of America report on insurance practices. Every insurance lawyer should read this report. Every person looking for an insurance claim lawyer should read this report. Despite record profits, insurance companies still seem to engage in unfair insurance claims practices and insurance bad faith when people have an insurance claim, forcing people to hire an insurance lawyer. The Law Offices of Thomas Waitt Pleasant can help you with your insurance law or insurance claim dispute or problem.
  • Order Denying Allstate Insurance's Motion to Seal Trial Exhibits [PDF]   
    Description: On August 16, United States District Judge Sarah Vance in New Orleans refused to seal the trial exhibits in Weiss v. Allstate, the case of a New Orleans couple who earlier this year won a $2.8 million verdict against Allstate for illegally refusing a hurricane-related claim. In so ruling, the Court noted that "[p]ublic access serves to enhance the transparency and trustworthiness of the judicial process, to curb judicial abuses, and to allow the public to understand the judicial system better." This is a copy of the order.
  • Consumer Federation's Allstate Insurance Anti-Consumer Study [PDF]   
    Description: 35 page report by the Consumer Federation of America regarding Allstate Insurance Company's Excessive Prices and Poor Claims Practices
  • National Association of Insurance Commissioners   
    Description: Home page for the primary association of insurance commissioners, the state regulators who control and police the insurance industry. Here you can find information that could help with your bad faith insurance or unfair insurance claim practices case; like insurance complaint statistics, information on specific insurance companies, and other useful information about your insurance policy or insurance claim.
  • State Farm v. Campbell (Excerpt): Why a Judge Found State Farm Cheated Customers For Over Two Decades (Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith) [PDF]   
    Description: This excerpt details unfair claims practices and bad faith insurance conduct. A Utah trial court judge found that State Farm had repeatedly and "deliberately deceived and cheated its customers." by setting monthly payment caps and individually rewarding those insurance adjusters who paid less than the market value for claims. The judge found that even "[a]gents changed the contents of files, lied to customers, and committed other dishonest and fraudulent acts in order to meet financial goals."
  • Fighting for the "Little Guy" - Brief and Resulting Order Denying Contempt Charge Against Thomas Pleasant's Franchisee Client [PDF]   
    Description: Thomas Pleasant was lead counsel representing a local Medicine Shoppe Franchisee against Medicine Shoppe International, Inc., a large franchisor with over 1,000 franchises worldwide. Thomas Pleasant successfully defended his client against a vigorously fought charge of contempt from this powerful opponent. This was not an insurance bad faith or unfair claims practice case, but demonstrates Thomas Pleasant's commitment to fighting for the "little guy" in disputes with large corporate interests, such as insurance companies in unfair insurance claims practices and insurance bad faith disputes.
  • Disability Insurance Market Conduct Investigation Report: Unum Provident and Paul Revere (Unfair Insurance Claims Practices / Bad Faith) [PDF]   
    Description: This is a copy of a Targeted Multistate Market Conduct Examination (investigation) of companies controlled by or related to disability insurer UnumProvident, including Unum Life Insurance Company, Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company. The insurance commissioners determined that these insurance companies had essentially used unfair claims practices and bad faith in the administration of disability insurance claims.
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