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  • Conseco Fails to Honor Long-Term Care Policy Terms -- Again
  • CLASS Act, Payroll Deductions for Long-Term Care, Likely to Remain Part of Final Healthcare Overhaul
  • Standard Insurance Company Must PayLong Term Disability Benefits to Plaintiff With Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease
  • Facebook Pictures Lead to Disability Benefits Denial
  • Improvements to Long Term Care (LTC) CLASS Act Would Encourage More Enrollment
  • Eating Disorders, California Health and Safety Code Section 1254.5, Mental Health Parity Acts
  • XMRV VIRUS MAY BE CAUSE OF CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
  • Tort Reform is a myth...‘Frivolous Lawsuits’ Amount to Pennies on the Dollar Compared to Insurer Profits
  • Tests to Objectively Measure Brain’s Pain Response Bolster Fybromyalgia Claims
  • Rescissions and Jargon: What’s Not to Love About Health Insurance Plans
  • LTC Guild Launches Campaign to Educate Public About Extended Care Options
  • Long-Term Care CLASS Act Is Likely Victim of Controversy and Indifference
  • Congress Must Stand up to the “Whims” of Health Insurers
  • California Lawmakers and Governor at Odds -- Again Insurance Policyholders Seeking Benefits Caught in Stalemate
  • California Attorney General Jerry Brown to Scrutinize Pacificare, Cigna, Health Net Among Others, For Widespread Denial of Claims
  • Together, Aetna, Pacificare, Anthem Blue Cross, Kaiser and Cigna Denied 31.2 Million Claims since 2002.
  • UnitedHealth and Blue Shield Are Among Carriers to Benefit from Healthcare Overhaul
  • Federal C.L.A.S.S. Act Focuses Needed Attention on the Nation’s Lack of Long-Term Care Planning
  • Blue Cross Blue Shield, United Healthcare Say It’s Up to Policyholder to Discover Loopholes, Limitations in Policies by Reading ‘Small Print’
  • Health Insurers Say No to Congress When Asked to End Rescission Practices
  • Kantor & Kantor Wins Appeal to Department of Insurance in the Matter of Shepard v. United Healthcare
  • Blue Shield Raises Premiums in California as Much as 54%
  • Insurance Industry Will Never Come to Terms with Healthcare Reform
  • Health Care Reform Should Include Long-Term Care
  • Los Angeles Times business columnist David Lazarus is Skeptical About Health Insurance Industry Is Seeking the Country’s Best Interests
  • May 12 Is Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
  • Senate Bill Would End Gender Bias in Healthcare Premium Costs
  • Horizon Blue Cross Settles New Jersey Eating Disorder Class Action
  • UNITED HEALTHCARE REFUSES BENEFITS FOR SACRAMENTO AREA ANOREXIA PATIENT
  • Chronicling the Failure of Penn Treaty; Long Term Care In Peril
  • America’s Health Insurance Plans, Blue Cross/Blue Shield and other Industry Leaders Reconsider Equalizing Premiums to Fix Coverage Dilemmas
  • Independent Medical Exams (IME's) - “Listen, there’s a lot of hanky-panky that goes on”
  • Watch Out for Short Term Health Insurance Policies and Pre-Existing Illness Conditions
  • Is Your Long-Term Care Insurance Company Solvent?
  • Percentage of People Paying for Their Own Long-Term Care Is Growing
  • Insurer-Proposed Healthcare ‘Reforms’ Aren’t Worth Cheering About So Says L.A. Times
  • Disability Insurers Have Most to Gain From Attempts to Deny Legitimacy of Fibromyalgia
  • Welcome to the World of ERISA Disability Insurance Claims
  • LTC Insurance as Retirement-Planning Option May be More Important Than Ever
  • Changes to California Disability Insurance Regulations Shouldn’t Precede Commissioner’s Run for Governor
  • Blue Shield Latest Insurer to Settle Rescission Lawsuit
  • Penn Treaty Enters Receivership Under Pennsylvania Insurance Department
  • Legal Blogging From the Trenches Pre-Existing Conditions: Just Wait the 365 Days!
  • Pennsylvania Approval of Conseco Trust Is Bad Idea for Policyholders
  • Conseco Ends Ties to Long-Term Care Business After Pennsylvania Insurance Department Authorizes Transfer to "Senior Health Care Oversight Trust"
  • Aetna Insurance Must Pay Back Benefits for Eating Disorder Denials
  • Federal Tax Deductions Could Make Long Term Care (LTC) Policies More Affordable
  • Will Medicaid Run Out of Money?
  • Conseco Asks Pennsylvania Insurance Commissioner to Approve a Plan to Dump Long-Term Care Policies
  • Both Obama and McCain Are Short on Long-Term Care Planning Policy
  • Kantor and Kantor Blog Ranks in the Top 50 in a LexisNexis Survey
  • MetLife Joins Other Insurers Requesting Rate Increase on Existing Long-Term Care Policies
  • Health Net, Inc. Is Latest Insurer to Finalize Deal with California Over Rescission Practices
  • Federal Oversight of Long-Term Care Insurance Practices Under Consideration
  • Long Term Care Insurance - Do you need it?
  • L.A. City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo Sues Blue Shield to End Rescission Practices
  • Business as Usual for Allstate, Unum and Eight Other Insurance Carriers; The Ten Worst Insurance Companies in America
  • FAQ: My Long Term Disability carrier offered to hire a company to assist me in obtaining Social Security Disability Benefits . . . Should I accept?
  • ABC News & Good Morning America Take CIGNA to Task Over Long Term Disability Insurance Denial
  • The U.S. Supreme Court Issues its Ruling in Metropolitan Life v. Glenn
  • Woman with Cancer Finally Gets Disability Benefits After ‘Good Morning America’ Calls Cigna
  • U.S. Supreme Court Considers Glenn v. MetLife: Should insurance companies’ decisions be given full deference in ERISA cases?
  • CRITICAL STEPS TO GETTING (ERISA and non-ERISA) INSURANCE CLAIMS PAID . . .Long Term Disability, Long Term Care, Health, or Life Insurance
  • Post-Claim Underwriting - Ticconi v. Blue Shield may shift odds in policyholders’ favor
  • Long Term Care Insurance as a Financial Safety Net
  • Health Care Reform: Governor Schwarzenegger in the Midst of Insurance Controversy
  • Jacobs v. Kaiser Foundation Health Plan, Inc. - Court Orders Kaiser to Pay for Eating Disorder (Bulimia)Treatment
  • Social Security Disability vs. Long Term Disability Insurance: 755,000 reasons why the latter may be better

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  • January 8, 2010 2:41 PM
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