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Insurance companies may require Harrison Ford to stay on the ground

March 9, 2015March 7, 2015 Julie Campbell

This could be the result of last week’s crash when the actor fell from the sky in his vintage airplane. The entertainment industry insurance companies may require Harrison Ford to remain grounded following the crash that the actor experienced when he experienced engine trouble in his vintage airplane, last week, and sent it into a crash landing on a golf course in Venice, California. Ford is still recovering from moderately serious injuries that he experienced from the crash landing. He was immediately hospitalized after the crash. At the time that…

New Jersey Turnpike scam makes insurance news when adjuster sentenced

January 12, 2015January 10, 2015 G. Turner

The scandal was worth an estimated $900,000 and the man from Little Falls will go to prison for almost 3 years. An adjuster from Little Falls is making insurance news after having been sentenced to almost three years in jail for having schemed with a New Jersey Turnpike manager to trick insurers and the authority out of an estimated total of approximately $900,000. Back in September, Roberto Napolitano gave a guilty plea for a charge of fraud, and he has now been sentenced. The adjuster in this insurance news case,…

Top 2014 cases of insurance fraud identified

January 9, 2015January 7, 2015 Julie Campbell

The MPI has now released its list of the largest errors and attempted fraudulent claims from January through December. A new list called the “top five frauds” has now been released by Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI), which shows the leading instances of insurance fraud that occurred within this Canadian province. While interesting and amusing to some, it also places the spotlight on an ongoing problem in the insurance industry. According to the MPI’s data, its own special investigations unit was able to discover approximately $7.5 million in insurance fraud in…

The majority of insurance companies aren’t transparency law compliant

January 2, 2015December 31, 2014 Julie Campbell

Texas has become unable to determine whether or not the plans are meeting the needs of consumers. Texas recently implemented a new regulation for health insurance companies that required them to have to submit reports to the state Department of Insurance in order to help to protect consumers against unfairly high medical bills, but many insurers have been ignoring this requirement, so far. At the same time, officials in the state haven’t done very much to help to improve compliance. Under the new regulations, insurance companies are supposed to be…

Judge orders insurance companies to submit records from Superstorm Sandy

January 1, 2015December 30, 2014 Julie Campbell

The purpose is to help to determine whether or not damage reports had been edited by engineering contractors. An order has now been issued by U.S. Magistrate Judge Gary Brown to insurance companies that requires them to submit massive quantities of additional records related to the damage investigated following Superstorm Sandy, which could help to find out whether or not engineering contractors had edited the reports that they had made in order to inaccurately reduce the payouts that were issued to hundreds – or possibly thousands – of victims of…