Insurer Robo-Settlement Offers Take a Hit

The investigation, launched by the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC), looked into Allstate's use of a program called Colossus. The software uses highly technical computer algorithms to come up with suggested settlement amounts for personal injuries, based on a database of claims for similar automobile accidents. However, NAIC investigators found that management and oversight...
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Med-Mal: Still Making Mistakes

 A study published this week in the Archives of Surgery reports that doctors are still performing operations on the wrong body parts - and even the wrong people. The mistakes were compiled in a database of errors Colorado doctors reported to COPIC, a Denver-based physician liability insurance company, from 2002 to June 2008. As...
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I Thought I’d Seen It All

A client had been in a bad car accident, and the other driver was uninsured. My client was pretty seriously injured, the medical bills were pretty high and she was looking at a lengthy amount of time for recovery and rehabilitation. Luckily, she had very good uninsured/underinsured motorist coverage. Until she tried to use it. First...
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