Fort Worth insurance attorneys will get calls from people who have been denied benefits by their insurance company because the insurance company claims the person has a pre-existing condition. KSAT recently posted an article about this practice. Here is what the article tells us. The KSAT 12 Defenders uncovered a…
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Failure To Pay Claim And Bad Faith
Most insurance lawyers can tell a new client that the fact an insurance company refuses to pay a claim it should have paid does not make the insurance company liable for a bad faith insurance claim. The 1998, Texas Supreme Court case, Provident American Inc. v. Castanden, helps explain this.…
Texas High-Risk Pool Ending
Aledo insurance attorneys need to know what is happening in the world of insurance news and events. The Texas Tribune published an article October 17, 2013, that would be of interest to at least 23,000 people in Texas. The article is titled, “Texas Prepares to Shutter High-Risk Insurance Pool.” It…
Representations In Insurance Application
Fort Worth insurance attorneys and those in Benbrook, Burleson, Lake Worth, and other parts of Tarrant County need to know the effect of the representations made in an insurance application. There is an important distinction between statements by the insured that are considered to be representations and those considered to…
Insurance Coverage – Do You Have It?
Residents of Grand Prairie, Arlington, Fort Worth, Dallas, Irving, Richardson, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, Grapevine, Mansfield, and other places all over the metroplex area of North Texas may wonder if the insurance coverage they have bought for themselves is good. Or is the insurance company going to find a reason to…
Insurance Companies Playing Games?
An insured in Dallas, Fort Worth, Grand Prairie, Arlington, Colleyville, Burleson, Benbrook, Grapevine, Irving, or anywhere else in Texas probably thinks they pay too much in health insurance rates. Well, the reality is they probably are paying too much. The above is addressed in a USA Today article published on…
Insurance Companies And Injuries And Subrogation
If someone in Dallas, Fort Worth, Arlington, Grand Prairie, Mansfield, Hurst, Euless, Bedford, Duncanville, or anywhere else in Texas gets involved in an accident and someone besides themselves are at fault, what happens when health insurance pays for the medical bills resulting from the accident? The answer is one you…
Cheating Insurance Company
Am I paying too much for my insurance? Whether you live in Cedar Hill, Mansfield, Benbrook, Saginaw, Keller, Fort Worth, Dallas, Grand Prairie, Arlington, or some other place in Texas, that would be a question most people would ask at one time or another when thinking about their finances. For…
Pre-existing Coverage For Children?
Anybody with children in Grand Prairie, Arlington, Mansfield, Fort Worth, Dallas, or out in Weatherford would want to know how the new federal health bill is being interpreted by lawyers and insurance companies. This was the topic of a recent article in The New York Times. The article is titled…
Health Insurer Loses In California
It would be interesting to see if what happened out west, would happen here in Texas, with a resident of Grand Prairie, Dallas, Arlington, Fort Worth, Mansfield, or Weatherford. It probably depends on your insurer. The Los Angeles Times ran an article on March 15, 2010, about a health insurer…