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• Astrology and Car Crashes

  Scott Smith | January 24, 2007 4:42 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Website InsuranceHotline.com, conducted a study that demonstrated individuals with certain zodiac signs were more likely to be involved in car crashes, yet another example of the insurance industry's arbitrary and less than sophisticated means of determining auto insurance rates. InsuranaceHotline.com quotes drivers on insurance rates and conducted a study that included 100,000 North Americans...

• Hospital Errors in Minnesota on the Rise

  Scott Smith | January 22, 2007 12:57 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Medical Malpractice

  For the second straight year Minnesota hospitals reported medical errors resulting in death rose from the previous year. Overall the death toll from medical negligence showed a 50% increase in the number of "adverse events" reported by hospitals and centers for surgery between October 2005 and October 2006 citing to the Annual Minnesota State Report.The program Minnesota has in place a...

• Runaway Verdicts or Runaway Insurance Profits

  Scott Smith | January 19, 2007 11:29 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Most of America is badly misinformed about what is really happening in our Courts and hospitals. Is the nation experiencing a plethora of runaway verdicts or is there really a run on insurance profits? Are we losing doctors due to high insurance premiums caused by frivolous lawsuits or is the insurance industry fooling us all?Surprisingly, the facts are clear. As a representative example, in...

• Insurance Law Intimidates Emergency Room Doctors from Alcohol and Drug Testing

  Scott Smith | January 18, 2007 11:23 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  Because a 1953 Ohio insurance law permits health insurance companies to deny claims for injuries that result from alcohol or drug use, emergency room doctors and nurses don't test patients for fear the costs of the procedure would be denied. Accordingly, many hospitals don't routinely test patients for drug or alcohol use and won't until the law is overturned. Of course, if the ingestion of...

• Allstate's Dirty Hands

  Scott Smith | January 04, 2007 7:57 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  For years Allstate Insurance has claimed you are in good hands if you are an insured with their company. However, this mantra belies Allstate's deceptive claims practices and defiance of Court Orders. In the early 1990s Allstate retained the services of McKinsey and Company in reengineering its auto accident insurance claims operations. The story of Allstate's scorched earth claims practice...

• New Law Reduces Ohio Consumers Damage Claims

  Scott Smith | January 03, 2007 4:50 PM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  What the Ohio Supreme Court giveth, the Ohio legislature taketh away. A recent Ohio Supreme Court Decision confirmed that Ohio's Consumer Sales Practice Act (CSPA), a thirty year old consumer protection law, allowed defrauded consumers to sue for non-economic damages like stress, aggravation and humiliation when unfairly taken advantage of by a business. Whitaker v. N.T. Automotive, Inc. 111...