http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/ Published by Kantor & Kantor, LLP en-us 2010-01-08T14:41:27-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2010/01/conseco_fails_to_honor_longter_1.html An article in U.S. News & World Report briefly mentions the travail our client Claire Krumpotich and her family have encountered with Conseco Senior Health Insurance Company. We've written several times before about Conseco, its financial problems, and its seeming... LongTerm Care Insurance Kantor & Kantor LLP 2010-01-08T14:41:27-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2010/01/class_act_payroll_deductions_f_1.html The CLASS Act, the part of the federal healthcare overhaul that creates a payroll deduction for long-term care similar to Social Security, may survive to make it into the final version of a combined congressional bill and become law, writes... LongTerm Care Insurance Kantor & Kantor LLP 2010-01-04T11:09:01-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/12/standard_insurance_company_mus.html Kantor & Kantor, LLP achieved an important victory in the U.S. District Court in Los Angeles for a client suffering from the rare muscular disease Charcot-Marie-Tooth. Our client was denied disability benefits from Standard Insurance Company, which insured the disability... ERISA Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-12-10T14:28:43-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/11/facebook_pictures_lead_to_disa.html Photos on Social Media Sites May Give Insurance Adjustors Wrong Impressions Canadian citizen Nathalie Blanchard was merely following her doctor’s suggestion that she spend time with friends and vacation in a sunny climate as a cure for depression when her... LongTerm Disability (LTD) Insurance Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-11-22T14:18:51-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/11/improvements_to_long_term_care.html Long-term care advocate and blogger Howard Gleckman weighs in on the CLASS Act, the federal government’s long-term care proposal included in pending health care legislation, for Kaiser Health News. See “Will People Buy Government Long-Term Care Insurance,” http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Columns/2009/November/111609Gleckman.aspx. Gleckman predicts... LongTerm Care Insurance Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-11-20T14:22:57-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/11/federal_healthcare_legislation.html Federal Healthcare Legislation Could Erode California’s Consumer Protections Lisa Girion of the Los Angeles Times reports that a provision of federal healthcare legislation under consideration could harm consumer protections in states that have strong laws that both protect policyholders’ rights... Health Insurance Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-11-17T09:58:16-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/10/eating_disorders_california_he.html California Law Displays Understanding of Eating Disorders That Insurers Should Emulate Insurance companies that routinely misunderstand eating disorders should pay attention to California Health and Safety Code Section 1254.5, which provides a refreshing perspective on the nature and treatment of... Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-10-29T09:54:08-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/10/xmrv_virus_may_be_cause_of_chr_1.html A new study published last week in Science magazine announced that a retrovirus called XMRV may cause Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). The virus' actual name is xenotropic murine leukemia virus-related virus,and it was found in nearly 98 percent of about... Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-10-21T14:41:23-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/10/tort_reform_is_a_mythfrivolous_1.html "Tort Reform, Tort Reform, Tort Reform," the phrase has almost become a song. Nobody likes to see undeserving people win huge, unjustified damage awards, but the fact is, it doesn't really happen in California, except on maybe on TV. Los... Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-10-04T08:54:49-08:00 http://www.californiainsurancelawyerblog.com/2009/10/tests_to_objectively_measure_b_1.html According to Medical News Today, fibromyalgia is no longer an “invisible” syndrome. Citing a study reporter in the Journal of Nuclear Medicine, the article reports that researchers in France were able to detect functional abnormalities in the brain after performing... Kantor & Kantor LLP 2009-10-03T08:48:38-08:00