Posts tagged Bad Faith

• Hit by a Deer? What to do?

  Jon Lewis | May 25, 2008 5:30 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Automobile Accidents
  

  Over the years, we have received calls from several people who have had a collision with a deer or other animal. In many of those occasions, we have had to tell the individual that there is not much...

• Insurance a Scam Game for many Insurers

  Tedford Taylor | September 13, 2007 4:29 PM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  The insurance industry's drive for profit has overwhelmed its obligation to policyholders, and insurance companies abide only by the first commandment of insurance--Thou shalt pay as little and as late as possible.Tension between insurers and their customers has long existed, but it was the 1990s that saw insurance companies looking for ways to systematically streamline the process to increase...

• Jury Awards Man $10M in Insurance Bad Faith Suit

  Christina Cole | March 18, 2007 1:06 AM | 0 CommentsBirmingham, AL Category: Miscellaneous
  

  A Federal Jury awarded a man $10 million in a ruling that decided his employer's insurance carrier acted in bad faith when they denied his claim for benefits from a 1999 back injury.The jury is still deciding whether to also award the man with additional compensation for punitive damages.Court records show the worker was a computer technician at Norwest Financial when he injured his back while...