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ERISA In The News
Featured Articles About ERISA Disability Claims
- The Safety Net She Believed In Was Pulled Away When She Fell
- Law Is Called Stacked Deck for Insurers
- Disability Claim Denied! - Insurer UnumProvident is Under Fire for its Roster of Rejections
- Bad Faith
Los Angeles Times, August 21, 2005, by Peter Gosselin
San Francisco Chronicle, May 27, 2004, by Joan Ryan
Business Week, December 22, 2003, by Dean Foust, Anand Natarajan, and Brian Grow
Common Dreams, June 14, 2005, by Russell Mokhiber and Robert Weissman
Other Articles and Recent Cases
- State of California Reaches Settlement With UnumProvident, Wins Changes
- Multi-state Settlement Addresses Concerns Regarding UnumProvident Claims Handling
- ERISA Law Group News Feed Aggregator
October 3, 2005
November 18, 2004
"The chief insurance regulators of Maine, Massachusetts, and Tennessee today released their examination of the claim handling practices of three disability insurers owned by UnumProvident Corp., along with settlement agreements requiring the companies to change their claims practices and to re-assess certain claims going back as far as 1997...Forty-seven other states and the District of Columbia joined the three "lead states" in this multistate market conduct examination of Unum Life Insurance Company of America, The Paul Revere Life Insurance Company, and Provident Life and Accident Insurance Company..."
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