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• Study Finds Cancer Diagnosis Linked to Insurance

  Jeremy Thurman | February 18, 2008 9:24 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Wrongful Death

  I just saw the following article from the New York Times discussing a new study by the American Cancer Society which has found that the uninsured and those covered by Medicaid are more likely than those with private insurance to receive a diagnosis of cancer in late stages, often diminishing their chances of survival.

• American Fidelity to pay $10.8M

  Jeremy Thurman | February 04, 2008 10:55 AM | 0 Comments
  Category: Automobile Accidents

  An Oklahoma jury ordered American Fidelity to pay $10.8 million for improperly reducing the benefit owed to the mother of a policy holder who died. Dolores Metzger claimed the company improperly changed its policy for paying "actual charges" for limited benefit health insurance policies, such as the cancer policy purchased by Metzger's son. Before 1994, American Fidelity paid whatever the...