Kendall v Amica Mut. Ins. Co. A tenant in plaintiffs’ home had to be subdued by police using tear gas. Plaintiffs had an adverse health reaction to the tear gas residue and their homeowners’ insurer hired a remediation company which used a chemical to remove the tear gas. Plaintiffs then alleged an adverse health reaction […]
Contributor & Author: Gerard J. Gianoli, M.D., F.A.C.S., Neuro-otology & Skull Base Surgeon, Member of The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) The surprising thing about Ms. Hutchon’s medical horror story is not the four delays in her emergency surgery. It’s that she did not come to the U.S. to have her surgery […]
By Anna Murray, Author of The Complete Software Project Manager A few months ago, my software team received the following request from an insurance company executive: “Please create a form on my WordPress website so potential clients and others can upload scans of sensitive documents.” He thought it would be an improvement over the […]
The New York Insurance Association (NYIA) advises that from 2014 to 2015 motorcycle thefts in New York increased by 23 percent. According to a report from the National Insurance Crime Bureau (NICB), motorcycle thefts nationwide increased by six percent during the same time period, rising for the first time in ten years. New York State […]
Court Rules for the Insured in First Late Notice/Prejudice Case In what may be the first appellate court case involving the 2009 New York law requiring the insurer to show that it was prejudiced by the insured’s giving late notice of an occurrence, the Fourth Judicial Department1 ruled in favor of the insured. The decision […]
“Celebrate what you accomplish, but raise the bar every time you succeed.” (Mia Hamm) I don’t care who you are, where you come from, whether you’re an individual or an agency, or whether you’re in or outside of the insurance space…No one, no matter who, has the ability to improve without accepting some form […]
The slow, lazy days of summer are a great time to revisit your marketing strategy for your company. Over the wintertime, you have been going along doing the necessary things but you aren’t sure if it’s really working. These quieter days provide the best opportunity to revisit and start tracking what really matters. There are […]
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo announced that the Department of Financial Services has issued guidance to inform health insurers of their responsibility to provide health insurance coverage for maternal depression screenings. The guidance follows the United States Preventive Services Taskforce recommendations made earlier this year that group health plans and insurers offering group or individual health […]
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