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$5.6 Million Verdict Against Insurance Company
$8 Million Damage Award Against State Farm Upheld On Appeal
3rd Circuit Deals Blow to Class-Arbitration Waivers
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A Political Message Amid the Movie Trailers
Allstate Agrees to Pay Minority Policyholders it Overcharged
Allstate and Its Attorney Phil Emerson Cited for Misconduct
Allstate Must Cut California Auto Insurance Rates 15.9%
Allstate to Allow Policy Renewals
Allstate Using Technicalities to Underpay Homeowners
Allstate won’t produce records despite $25,000-a-day fine
Americans Want Secure Digital Health Data
Appeals Court Upholds $16 Million Verdict Against Allstate
At $5.3M, Bad-Faith Decision is Largest: Bigfork Ecologist Sued Over Crash Benefits
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Bayer’s Duplicity on Drug Safety
Blue Cross Asks Doctors to Help Cancel Policies
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California Punishes Farmers for Bad Acts
Canceled Policies Prompt Lawsuits
Cell Phone Fee Case Set for Trial
Colossus at the Accident Scene
Companies Deny Good Claims and Force Doctors to Charge More
Consortium of Researchers Discover Retroviral Link to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
California Fines Two Health Plans $13 Million
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David Allen Helps Attorneys to Forge Compromise
Department of Justice finds law suits down 52%
Diesel Exhaust May Impair Blood Vessel Function
Disability Cases Last Longer as Backlog Rises
Disabled Attorney Entitled to Fees for 10-Year Fight for Benefits
Disabled Workers Feel Vulnerable As Jobs Vanish
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Excerpted from: Choosing a Functional Capacity Evaluation
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False Reports Used by Insurance Companies Going to Trial
FDA advisers recommend ban on painkiller Darvon
Fire Victims Feel Burned by Lawmakers Tied to Insurers
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Georgia Bars Insurance Firm Over Violations
Getting the Most Out of Your Doctor Visit
Group Settles 22 Katrina Cases with State Farm
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Health Net agrees to settle rescission lawsuits
Health Net Ordered to Pay $9 Million After Canceling
Cancer Patient's Policy
Hospital Device Reuse Causing Injury
Hurricane Damage and Insurance Claims - Who Should Pay?
Hurricane Damage: Insurance Companies Won't Pay
Hurricane Damage: What Insurance Companies Don't Tell You
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Insurance Claims: How the System Really Works
Insurance Commission Says Allstate Acting Illegally
Insurance Companies Cause Litigation by Refusing to Pay
Insurance Companies Don't Want to Pay for Hurricane Damage
Insurance Companies Fined for Poor Claims Handling
Insurance Companies Forcing Lawsuits to Settle Hurricane Rita Claims
Insurance Company Pays Fine for Over Charging
Insureds Sue State Farm for Using Only Reports Supporting Denial
Insurer Denies Claim for Dead Iraq Vet
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Judge Overturns State Farm's Efforts to Deny Coverage
Jury Awards $28.2 Million to Family of Drunk Driving Victim
Jury Awards Monroe Woman Almost $4 Million in Medical Lawsuit
Jury Considers Whether a Pet Has Human Value
Jury Finds Insurer Wrongfully Terminated Woman's Benefits
Jury Finds State Farm Badly Treated Policyholder
Jury Grants Verdict to Dog Owners for Loss of Dog
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Kaiser Denied Transplants of Ideally Matched Kidneys
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Malpractice Costs Have Little Impact
Mass. High Court Nixes Consumer Contracts Requiring Arbitration
Medical Lawsuit Caps Shutting Some Out of Courthouse
M.R.I.’s May Burn Patients Who Wear Drug Patches
Mysterious Things Happening Behind CalPERS' Curtain of Secrecy
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Obama Threatens Insurers' Anti-Trust Exemption
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Pain drugs to carry more prominent U.S. warnings
Patient Safety at US Hospitals Improving Slowly
Pet Cause: More Lawyers Training in Field of Animal Law
Photos on Facebook Have Cost a Canadian Woman Her Long-term Sick Leave Benefits
Proposed Rule to Stop Insurers from Targeting Elderly and Disabled
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State Farm Pays for Engineering Reports It Likes
State Fines Blue Cross $200,000
State High Court Backs Consumers in Health Care Billing
Surgeon Implants Screwdriver for Want of Something Else
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Take the Sting Out of Your Child's Flu Shots
Teen Dies After Transplant Funds Nixed
Ten Worst Insurance Companies Report
Texas Insurance Commissioner Forces Allstate to Pay
Texas Orders Allstate to Stop Overcharging
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Utah Couples Saddled With Medical Bills File Suit Against Regence
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WellPoint Settles Lawsuit Over Canceled Policies
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