- Anthem, Aetna Keep Policyholders’ Heads Spinning Over Insurance Rate Hikes
- Health Insurance Rate Hikes...Are they Fair? Aetna, Anthem, Blue Shield and Health Net Rate Proposals All Scrutinized
- Long-Term Care Industry Report Says Coverage Less Expensive Than You Think
- Conseco Senior Health, SHIP, Transport Life, American Travelers Life and Others, May Not be Paying What They Should For Home Health Care
- Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and XMRV...Are They Related?
- Reliance Standard Medical Reviewers May Face Conflict of Interest
- FIBROMYALGIA DIAGNOSIS REVISITED - The 19-Point Pain Index
- Dave Jones for California Insurance Commissioner 2010
- Unum Reaps Windfall as Entitled Workers’ Job Fears Decrease Disability Claims
- Calculation of “Medical Loss Ratios” - How Much of Your Insurance Premium Should go to Health Care Costs?
- Outdated Long-Term Care Coverage Concerns Rival Problems With Increased Premiums
- Nudge: A good Book by Cass Sunstein (Harvard Law School) and Richard Thaler (Univ. of Chicago Business School)
- Avoiding the Death Spiral: New Federal Health Care Law and Insurance Regulation
- In Ford v. Hartford Life & Acc. Ins. Co. the District Court Applied the Wrong Standard of Review
- Kantor & Kantor Lawyers Win Trial Victory for Client Fighting Employer’s Self-Funded Health Plan
- What will the Health Reform Bill Mean?
- UnitedHealth and WellPoint Increase Rates, and Profits
- Anthem is also being investigated by the California Department of Insurance for more than 700 violations in the past three years
- Policyholder Fighting Health Net for Coverage Gets Temporary Reprieve Because of Media Involvement
- Anthem Blue Cross Raises Premiums – and Ire – of Individual Policyholders
- 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
