Category: Insurance
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Travel insurance’s tricky language leaves customers without refunds during COVID-19
By Ann Henson Feltgen FloridaBulldog.org Jack and Vicky Brennan looked forward to a sailing trip out of Grenada in July 2020. Months earlier as COVID-19 got worldwide attention, the St. Petersburg couple decided to purchase travel insurance, in case they couldn’t go. Now, the company won’t pay.
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Assignment of benefits scams rip off tens of millions of dollars a year
By Joseph A. Mann Jr. FloridaBulldog.org Over the last several years, the assignment of benefits by consumers has become a major source of fraud, abuse and overpricing. Insurance companies estimate that AOB abuse costs Florida property owners and insurance companies tens of millions of dollars a year.
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Loyal Obama supporters, canceled by Obamacare
By Charles Ornstein ProPublica San Francisco architect Lee Hammack says he and his wife, JoEllen Brothers, are “cradle Democrats.” They have donated to the liberal group Organizing for America and worked the phone banks a year ago for President Obama’s re-election. Now, their insurance company has told them their plan is being canceled due to…
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Broward Sheriff Israel makes winners out of Coventry Health Care, lobbyist Rubin
By Dan Christensen BrowardBulldog.org Broward Sheriff Scott Israel has named incumbent and low-bidder Coventry Health Care of Florida as his choice to provide group medical insurance to BSO’s 5,800 employees – a contract worth more than $355 million over the next five years.
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Insurance firm accused in smear told to pay $6 million to owners of Pompano Beach company
By Michael Pollick Sarasota Herald-Tribune A Broward County Circuit Court jury has levied a $6 million judgment against FCCI Commercial Insurance Co. for breaching a contract and maliciously prosecuting the owners of a Pompano Beach-based woodworking company, Custom Wood Creations Inc.