If you’re old enough, you likely remember a time when you groused about forking over a $20 co-pay when you visited your doctor. Millennials won’t understand that, but there was a time when Oklahomans and millions of other visitors to medical clinics paid s small...
Millions Of Dollars Recovered
For Bad Faith Insurance Denials
Year: 2018
Can your parent’s long-term care insurance claim be denied?
Now that your parent has fallen considerably ill, either physically or mentally, you know that you will likely not have the ability to provide the needed care on your own. As a result, you have started looking into long-term care options to determine what services may...
A continuing look at commercial liability insurance
Say that you’re a smart and proactive Oklahoma entrepreneur who is hardly the type to leave business risks unaddressed. You flatly know that adverse possibilities need to be flagged and fully protected against through appropriate insurance coverage. You’ve done all...
What is commercial liability insurance coverage?
Unquestionably, the insurance umbrella is expansive and varied. That is, insureds seek protection against both known and unforeseeable risk across a broad realm that, if unguarded against, can reap devastating consequences. Imagine a cancer diagnosis for a patient...
Controversial then, controversial now: insurer’s program rolled out
A program just rolled out by mega-insurer Blue Cross Blue Shield in Texas is certain to garner closest attention in Oklahoma and other states. The initiative, which targets emergency room visits by insured policyholder, has been termed “deeply contentious” and...
Your insurer preapproved you: It’s a done deal … right?
No reasonable individual in Oklahoma or elsewhere willingly proceeds with medical treatment these days without first asking a pointed question of his or her insurance carrier. That is this: Is it preapproved? That is the Holy Grail of all insurance-linked queries. If...
Long term insurance care denials will continue to rise
Many people opted to purchase long term insurance benefits as a responsible choice to prevent becoming a burden on their families as they age. Unfortunately, they have discovered that premiums are rising dramatically and insurance claim denials are frequent...
Life insurance policies are not always void in suicides
Each year, thousands of people across the country take their own lives, and some of them more than likely resided here in Oklahoma. The family members left behind after these tragedies often find themselves in dire financial straits if the individual had provided...
Major global insurer targeted in insurance denial litigation
Many of our readers obviously remember with great clarity the vivid imagery linked with the massive Kilauea volcanic eruption on Hawaii’s Big Island a couple months back. Now, in the wake of that, there is a further explosion, which has nothing to do with seismic...
Yes, you should feel extra protected with UM/UIM coverage
Although few people likely think of adequate insurance coverage as being akin to a warm and comforting blanket, we submit at Mansell, Engel & Cole that such imagery is not misplaced. Truly, real protection against life’s material risks should feel something...