Litigation

PA Health Insurance Company Merger Before the US Senate
Last week, the Senate Committee on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Antitrust, Competition Policy and Consumer Rights held a hearing titled “Consolidation in The Pennsylvania Health Insurance Industry: The Right Prescription?” regarding the merger between Independence Blue Cross and Highmark...

Bad Faith Insurance: The Art of Unfairness
New York, NY: There's something fundamentally devious about the provider of a service that refuses to deliver what you've already paid for. Such is the basis for bad faith insurance, and a bad faith insurance claim brought against AXA Equitable Life Insurance Co...

The Basics of a Michigan Corporate Merger Transaction
The basic concept of a corporate merger is relatively straightforward. Put simply, when companies are merged, one company is folded into another company. The surviving company takes on all of the assets, liabilities, powers, rights, and obligations of the company that is merged into the surviving company...

How Much Life Insurance Do You Need
September is Life Insurance Awareness Month. I will be posting several articles on this subject and the importance of having enough insurance and the right kind of insurance. The following article is about determining how much life insurance you need...

Unidentified Claim Practices Settlement by Life Insurer -- Update.
This Updates a Previous Post. The unidentified claim practices settlement by a Life Insurance Company will remain unidentified if it is left up to the parent Life Insurance Company, apparently...

New York Life 401(k) participants get a $14 Million in Self-Dealing Case
A claim that New York Life Insurance Co. improperly transferred pension and 401(k) assets into its mutual fund is almost over. On March 4, Judge Bruce W. Kauffman of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania approved a $14 million settlement between the company and employees and agents who were in the New York Life defined benefit and 401(k) program...

Dumb New York Laws
Stupid Laws in the Empire State

California Limited Liability Company Formation
Relevant information for starting a limited liability company in California

Medicare
Guide to government health insurance for the elderly

Stock Splits and Reverse Stock Splits
How splits can affect stock value

New York Building Codes
Building and constructions laws in New York

National Practitioner Data Bank Fact
NPDB identifies unprofessional healthcare practitioners

LINA - Cigna Life Insurance Company of North America Disability Claims
LINA Insurance alleging violations of disability insurance claims.

EquiTrust Life Insurance Company
Faces Class Action

Merger Agreement Rejected
Finish Line and Genesco reach $175 million settlement in merger dispute.

Universal Underwriters Life Insurance Co.
Over $2.4 million settlement reached in automobile credit insurance dispute.

Elderly Annuities
Allianz Life Insurance Co. agrees to $10 million insurance malpractice settlement.

Aetna Life Insurance
Houston Woman Denied $426,000