Attorneys for State Farm customers whose homes were wiped out by the Northern California wildfires fought in federal court Thursday to keep alive a class action claiming State Farm issued insurance policies that intentionally undervalued their houses, and then lowballed the cost to rebuild.
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One in five Americans who undergo elective surgery receive surprise bills — despite their insurance covering the procedure — researchers said Tuesday, with the average debt around $2,000.
Read moreFarmers Mutual Insurance Co. sued two men and a YMCA in Platte County Court, Neb., claiming it has no duty to indemnify them for an injury during a pickup basketball game, because it was an intentional foul, therefore not an accident.
Read moreWashington state sued Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar in federal court, claiming he is unconstitutionally pre-empting state and federal laws by requiring health insurers to send two bills to enrollees each month, one of them for “only the comparatively miniscule cost of covering abortion services.”
Read moreLed by California, a coalition of six states and the District of Columbia sued the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Thursday over what they consider insidious restrictions on reproductive rights and barriers to insurance coverage for abortions.
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The Florida House overwhelmingly approved legislation Wednesday that would bar life insurers from using genetic testing to deny policies.
Read moreA federal court in Maryland ruled in favor of a screen printing company in a dispute with its insurer after it was denied coverage for damage to its computer system sustained in a ransomware attack. The insurer had argued there must be physical damage to the system but the policy language covers the damage to the system.
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A Trump administration move to stop California from requiring health insurers to cover abortions has drawn a sharp riposte from California’s political leadership.
Read moreThe Banc of California sued Federal Insurance Co. for $14 million in federal court, claiming it wrongfully refused to cover that loss in a forgery case
Read moreStanding Raven aka Doug Tobin claims State Farm Insurance refused to cover the theft of his fishing boat and trailer because of racial discrimination against him, as a member of the Squaxin Indian tribe, in Pierce County Court, Wash.
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The Supreme Court agreed Friday to again take up a dispute over whether religious groups are exempt from the requirement that health insurance plans cover contraception.
Read moreThe Colorado Hospital Association sued the Colorado Division of Insurance in Denver County Court, claiming it illegally enacted an emergency regulation requiring them to pay a special fee totaling $40 million.
Read moreAn insurance company, as subrogee for the Florida Education Association (FEA), claims in federal court that Mildred K. Griffis aka Kelly Griffis “stole $73,600 from the FEA” while she was president of the association’s Clay County affiliate.
Read moreThe repeal of an unpopular fine for people without health insurance has had little impact on Obamacare sign-ups or premiums, a gap between the real world and legal arguments from conservatives still challenging the Affordable Care Act.
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As a candidate for the White House, Donald Trump repeatedly promised that he would “immediately” replace President Barack Obama’s health care law with a plan of his own that would provide “insurance for everybody.”
Read moreA transgender University of Arizona professor may pursue his claims against the university relating to the exclusion of gender reassignment surgery under its health insurance plan, a federal court in the state ruled. The professor provided evidence that the exclusion is “not rationally related to a legitimate government interest.”
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Kent Michitsch seemed to be running out of traditional options to insure the home he’s lived in for more than 30 years northeast of San Diego as California’s massive property insurance market reels from three consecutive years of destructive wildfires.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel upheld Friday an earlier ruling that blocked the Trump administration from denying entry to immigrants without health insurance, pending an ongoing lawsuit challenging the new rule.
Read moreAn insurance company does not have a duty to defend or provide liability and underinsured motorist coverage to the family of a young child who died of hyperthermia after her father accidentally left her in the backseat of his truck while he was at work, the South Carolina Court of Appeals ruled.
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