Orange County, California residents are no strangers to insurance claims arising from natural disasters. Landslides, wild fires and earthquakes all too frequently wreak havoc on people’s lives – and their property. And while insurance companies don’t require home and business owners to file claims immediately after a disaster strikes, it’s not a good idea to…
In 1993 there was a landslide in the Spyglass development area in Whittier, California. In the aftermath of the landslide, eight homeowners in the development sued the Spyglass Homeowners Association (HOA) for damages to their homes. Spyglass’ insurers also brought a declaratory relief action against the HOA. In return Spyglass brought an affirmative bad faith…
Twelve individuals, most of them chiropractors, were arrested in Orange County, California and will be charged in relation to an insurance over-billing scheme. The arrests resulted from a sting operation that targeted illegal patient referral and insurance over-billing tactics by Orange County, California physicians and attorneys. The district attorney’s office, working from a list provided…
Figuring out what your health insurance does and does not cover can be challenging under the best of circumstances. But when your child is diagnosed with autism or an autism related disorder, it can be even more difficult to determine what coverage you are entitled to under your health insurance policy. According to the website…
A recent blog post by an expert in insurance risk management and claims points out some potential business insurance nightmares that could be caused by oil from the Gulf Coast oil spill polluting up and down the Atlantic coastline. First party claims for direct loss or damage to property Business and property owners whose property…
The catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill that started after a rig explosion in April of 2010 is now widely regarded as the largest oil spill in history. The owner and principal operator of the oil field where the rupture occurred is BP (formerly British Petroleum), which was leasing the rig in question from Transocean,…
