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Groundbreaking article published by carrier group about APA impact
Insurers, policyholders must unite against doctored storm claims.
State Farm Ducks Racketeering Trial With $250 Million Accord
State Farm agreed to pay $250 million on the brink of a trial to customers who claimed the company tried to rig the Illinois justice system to wipe out a $1 billion jury verdict from 19 years ago.
Insurance Claim Delays Deliver Massive Profits To Industry By Shorting Customers
Unlike many other businesses, the insurance industry is bound by law to act in good faith with its customers. Because of their protective role in the lives of ordinary citizens, insurers have long operated as semi-public trusts. But since the mid-1990s, a new profit-hungry model, combined with weak regulation, has upended that ancient social contract. (Via HuffPost)
Guilty Pleas to Falsifying Reports on Hurricane Sandy Damage
A Long Island engineering company and one of its former executives pleaded guilty on Tuesday to charges that they had deliberately falsified engineering reports of homes battered by Hurricane Sandy in 2012. (Via New York Times)
Senators Elizabeth Warren, Charles Schumer, Cory Booker, & Robert Menendez grill FEMA head at Senate Banking Committee Hearing
The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking subcommittee on Housing, Transportation, and Community Development held a hearing July 30, called “The Flood Insurance Claims Process in Communities After Sandy: Lessons Learned and Potential Improvements.” (Via PIA National)
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